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RIAA Afraid of Harvard
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report on p2pnet.net, the RIAA's latest anti-college round of "early settlement" letters targets 7 out of 8 Ivy League schools, but continues to give Harvard University a wide berth. This is perhaps the most astonishing display of cowardice exhibited to date by the multinational cartel of SONY BMG, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, and Vivendi/Universal (the "Big Four" record companies, which are rapidly becoming less "big"). The lesson to be drawn by other colleges and universities: "All bullies are cowards. Appeasement of bullies doesn't work. Standing up to bullies and fighting back has a much higher success rate.""
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100% true. 100% troll.
Nifong did everything wrong and got skewered by 100% exculpatory evidence, and 0% inculpatory evidence. This man truly shamed the legal profession, and everything that has happened to him so far as a result of that isn't nearly enough!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
1) They know they're case(s) are weak
2) Their campaign is most certainly not about suing wrongdoers. It's about calculated methods to change copyright by case law.
It's not the error that baffles me, but the proximity. Just...how?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not entirely sure about the universe - Einstein
"All bullies are cowards. Appeasement of bullies doesn't work. Standing up to bullies and fighting back has a much higher success rate."
You know, I bet that if I wrote, "Bush is right. We need to fight the terrorists on their own turf, not cower away and wait for them to blow us up," I bet that a zillion /.ers would jump out of the woodwork and tell me what a damn fool I am. But when we're talking about the RIAA, heck, anyone will agree that we should fight and not let them walk all over us.
There's one difference between the above two scenarios. Well, actually there are many differences. The RIAA deals in music. The terrorists deal in blowing up skyscrapers, airplanes, and whatever else they can, full of innocent people, just because they (the terrorists) are a lower life form than the cockroach. We should NEVER appease the terrorists. We should NEVER negotiate with them. We should fight back, on their turf, and get rid of the threat.
Bush is right. Bush didn't lie. (The WMD's were all moved to Syria before the U.S.-set deadline for Saddam to come clean prior to the war. The intelligence community knows this. Obviously, since the aforementioned WMDs were removed from Iraq, no WMDs were found in Iraq)
Oh yeah, and one other thing. The head terrorists are the biggest cowards in the world. They send their kids, brothers, cousins, friends out to blow themselves up in a marketplace or to crash an airplane and kill themselves and hundreds of innocent people, while they, the leaders, hide in a rabbit hole like Saddam hid in. Or they launch missiles at their neighbors (cough Israel cough) from a schoolyard, or from next to a house where a family with many kids lives, or from similar places where they know they won't be attacked, because the people they hate, unlike them, actually think that life is sacred and therefore won't risk harming innocent children.