Does this mean there will be a pirate ship anchoring off the coast of Germany any time soon?
Hehe, I wish. But don't get too excited, copyright violation is still punishable under german criminal. If you share many many files, a few thousand maybe, I suppose they will still come after you. It's just that they don't want to go though all the administrative proceedings and red tape for petty cases of sharing 10 or so files, just to do the music industry a favour and then dismiss the case, which propably costs the tax-payer far more than what the actual damage is worth. They're hired as public servants after all, not as music industry's servants...:)
Riiiight.... and the abundance of those "muslim terroists", "turbin-headed children" and "women killers" in Hamburg and the whole of Germany explains the huge number of terroist attacks in Germany, doesn't it? Which is, by the way, ZERO for at least the last 10 years. Geez, what the hell are you talking about?
And what is "the Bundesfraus" supposed to be? That word doesn't even exist in german language (and yes, german is my native language).
So, why are environmental protection laws in place? To protect against pollutions, of course. And who, in the past, alsways turned out to be the largest and most unscupulous polluters? Why, faceless megacorps of course, where no single person is responsible, and everyone can say, "Hey, it's not me, I'm only following orders. And anyway, we need to make money, not protect the environment"
So, that's why we got this kind of legislation in the first place, to enforce enviromental protection. But it turns out, you only need to wave a large enough check in front of the administration and offer some token benefit for the people to have administrators reconsider their priority. I mean, 80 Job? Come on, that's next to nothing. And even if it were 8000 jobs or 800000, we really need to ask ourselfs if we want to allow big megacorps to increase their margin on the back of our health. Note that this isn't technically impossible. It is perfectly doable, just more expensive than putting it inside the lake of course.
Truely, all are equal before the law. Except those who are more equal. save the United States.
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Does this mean there will be a pirate ship anchoring off the coast of Germany any time soon?
Hehe, I wish. But don't get too excited, copyright violation is still punishable under german criminal. If you share many many files, a few thousand maybe, I suppose they will still come after you. It's just that they don't want to go though all the administrative proceedings and red tape for petty cases of sharing 10 or so files, just to do the music industry a favour and then dismiss the case, which propably costs the tax-payer far more than what the actual damage is worth. They're hired as public servants after all, not as music industry's servants...Riiiight.... and the abundance of those "muslim terroists", "turbin-headed children" and "women killers" in Hamburg and the whole of Germany explains the huge number of terroist attacks in Germany, doesn't it? Which is, by the way, ZERO for at least the last 10 years. Geez, what the hell are you talking about? And what is "the Bundesfraus" supposed to be? That word doesn't even exist in german language (and yes, german is my native language).
So, why are environmental protection laws in place? To protect against pollutions, of course. And who, in the past, alsways turned out to be the largest and most unscupulous polluters? Why, faceless megacorps of course, where no single person is responsible, and everyone can say, "Hey, it's not me, I'm only following orders. And anyway, we need to make money, not protect the environment"
So, that's why we got this kind of legislation in the first place, to enforce enviromental protection. But it turns out, you only need to wave a large enough check in front of the administration and offer some token benefit for the people to have administrators reconsider their priority. I mean, 80 Job? Come on, that's next to nothing. And even if it were 8000 jobs or 800000, we really need to ask ourselfs if we want to allow big megacorps to increase their margin on the back of our health. Note that this isn't technically impossible. It is perfectly doable, just more expensive than putting it inside the lake of course.
Truely, all are equal before the law. Except those who are more equal. save the United States.