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Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK
eldavojohn writes "It's a topic that a lot of game makers like Atari don't want the public hearing: game makers wrongfully accusing clearly innocent people of piracy. From the article, 'According to Michael Coyle, an intellectual property solicitor with law firm Lawdit, more and more people are being wrongly identified as file-sharers. He is pursuing 70 cases of people who claim to be wrongly accused of piracy and has spoken to hundreds of others, he told the BBC.' If only a few are coming forward after receiving extortion letters ('Pay £500 OR ELSE!'), what's the actual number of those out there being wrongfully accused?"
I Wank Freely And Laugh Faggotly?
Why don't you actually investigate what goes on in the countries that have national health systems? You would quickly find that your analysis is simplistic and just plain wrong. There are boards such as (in the UK), NICE which evaluate the effectiveness of medicines and and have the job of doing cost/benefit analyses. While these seem a little ruthless, ask yourself who you would trust to do it - an organisation responsible to elected politicians, or an insurance company responsible only to its shareholders? In the US, you have outsourced the ethical decisions on who lives and dies to corporations. In the UK, we have a system which is continually monitored by the media and by politicians.
The goal of a health system is NOT to prevent death. It is to reduce avoidable deaths, and to cure, or improve the quality of life of people with chronic or serious illnesses. By doing this it benefits everybody because it reduces social cost. For some reason many people in the US think this is "socialism", but it is more about pragmatism and what works. Or why does our system cost us a quarter per head of what yours does, and yet our life expectancy is longer?
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."