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Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks
AstroPhilosopher writes "The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a Thai student who was fined $600,000 for re-selling textbooks. Trying to make ends meet, the student had family members in Thailand mail him textbooks that were made and purchased abroad, which he then resold in the U.S. It's a method many retailers practice every day. 'Discount sellers like Costco and Target and Internet giants eBay and Amazon help form an estimated $63 billion annual market for goods that are purchased abroad, then imported and resold without the permission of the manufacturer. The U.S.-based sellers, and consumers, benefit from the common practice of manufacturers to price items more cheaply abroad than in the United States. This phenomenon is sometimes called a parallel market or grey market.'"
This is exactly what's broken with slashdot. Slashdot can only function so long as the majority have brains. This inversion occurred years ago. As a result, slashdot no longer functions simply because the readership and especially the majority of moderators are seemingly too stupid to follow extremely simple instructions on how and what they are supposed to moderate. Now the majority of users know little about anything, clearly can not rationally nor critically evaluate new knowledge, and will take painful steps to ensure they don't learn new information. After all, if they don't already know it, or their incorrect variation of the facts doesn't match, then its automatically and immediately wrong.
Welcome to a world with the Entitled Generation. As usual, they fuck everything up.