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Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA
An anonymous reader writes "Ray Beckerman, known for questioning the RIAAs legal tactics (also for frequent Slashdot contributions), was sued by the RIAA over his blog Recording Industry vs. People. In question is the 'vexatious' claims that the RIAAs legal tactics is a 'sham.' Beckerman is quoted as saying that the litigation against him is 'frivolous and irresponsible.'"
Except, if the RIAA components were to fold, I think we could all go on living and a replacement would probably pop up overnight that was less evil. If AIG goes under, a whole mess of people on a whole mess of continents get royally shafted and the economy weakens even more.
"seriously - we don't seem to make examples of bad businesses. in fact, we BAIL THEM OUT with taxpayer money!"
Are you talking about AIG? I thought that was a pretty good investment. I challenge you to find anywhere else where money can be loaned from the Feds at 12% interest! The taxpayers are going to get quite a windfall from this down the road a bit.
E pluribus unum
AIG is everywhere. Of those 300 million taxpayers I bet 250 million would feel pain if AIG went under, regardless of whether they ever had direct dealings with the company. I think its also a little naive to call a company "a sham" if it had sufficient assets to post multi-billion dollar losses in a single year.
Mexicans are now the largest racial group in California. Would you suggest California should make Spanish the state language? The U.S. decisively does NOT have a national language. If you can't lose your bigotry, then get out of my glorious melting pot of a nation.
1. Wasn't aware that "Mexican" was a racial group, thanks for clearing that up.
2. Do you really believe that "the U.S. decisively does NOT have a national language"? I mean, I know that it's not official, but c'mon. Is there any question what the national language is in this country?
You'll have that sometimes...
There shouldn't be a financial industry! Industry produces and commerce sells.
Finance == value. You can print money, but that actually causes all money to lose value, which is the opposite of what a finance "industry" should be doing. There's a lot of financial commerce happening, though; our money is being bought from us at a deflated rate and sold to the rich for even less.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
"in my opinion" is not a magic word that lets you defame people with impunity.
Actually, that phrase provides lots of free speech protections. I can say that I think taking the oil company profits and capping the price will cause oil shipments to stop to the US just like they did in the 1970's. I can say In my opinion, I think someone is an idiot for suggesting it. This is not defamation. This is stating what someone is suggesting and my opinion of his suggestion.
Mentioning that I think there is reason to believe he is not a native born citizen and therefore ineligible to run for president is also not defamation. It is based on the lawsuit that he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii. This is not defamation. References provided.
http://bobmccarty.com/2008/08/23/lawsuit-challenges-barack-obama-citizenship/
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/080214
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-citizen-of-kenya.html
If he was born here, how does he have citizenship of Kenya?
If he wasn't born on American soil, how is he qualified to run for President?
The truth shall set you free!