It failed because we the people threw a royal hissy fit.
You could call it a manifestation of popular sovereignty bucking big gov off it's back. You could use it as proof of how well we have been taken hostage by alcohol's addiction.
The party hardies in us all will never listen to proof of how bad booze is, so it obviously has to be the former.
We the people want our booze and we ultimately don't give a shit what it does to anyone but Number One.
Youtube is a mega-popular site, so it has enough might to make right that way. Other sites may not have that kind of clout.
And of course, MS's insanely huge market share, especially in the corporate sector, for IE will mean sites have to kowtow to it, which creates a positive feedback loop.
This is a war, and I've got the sinking feeling that there will need to be a few casualties (in the form of sites being snubbed by fussy users sticking with IE, and/or users getting fed up with getting the bird for using IE) before MS gets bothered enough to get with it and start following standards.
Still though if you can't afford a decent defense long enough to make it to trial you can always be forced into an unfair settlement...
If the guy makes it to court then he'll almost certainly win.
Whether or not he has the resolve and stamina to make it that far is another thing. We are talking about a government entity after all, which are usually ten times worse than corporate ones.
Ok, so they sided with you and told you they had the money from the other guy's account, only to turn around and give you a big fat zero when you show proof of sending?
TPB founders have already been convicted pretty much irreversibly and the fact that the judge in the case was blatantly biased was completely silenced.
TPB founders have nothing to worry about anymore since they've already been fried to a crisp.
I'd compare MS's pilfering of i4i's product (which should never have been patented in the first place) to a pirate's pilfering of RIAA soundtracks (which enjoy far too draconian protection under copyright law).
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Well, lubrication does often make things go faster...
But, but that would hurt the cotton industry! We can't allow hemp to enter the market, it would actually force them to compete.
No, we must keep the superior hemp illegalized so that us cotton farmers can kick back and rake in the dough.
Hell, even Big Tobacco wouldn't like it. It's just more competition.
It failed because we the people threw a royal hissy fit.
You could call it a manifestation of popular sovereignty bucking big gov off it's back. You could use it as proof of how well we have been taken hostage by alcohol's addiction.
The party hardies in us all will never listen to proof of how bad booze is, so it obviously has to be the former.
We the people want our booze and we ultimately don't give a shit what it does to anyone but Number One.
Which is presumably why it's opt-in.
It's just a game of hardball.
Youtube is a mega-popular site, so it has enough might to make right that way. Other sites may not have that kind of clout.
And of course, MS's insanely huge market share, especially in the corporate sector, for IE will mean sites have to kowtow to it, which creates a positive feedback loop.
This is a war, and I've got the sinking feeling that there will need to be a few casualties (in the form of sites being snubbed by fussy users sticking with IE, and/or users getting fed up with getting the bird for using IE) before MS gets bothered enough to get with it and start following standards.
Maybe they're the same 4 guys that China just busted for pirating...
Indeed, this was kinda my point.
I'm not sure what the framers intended, but simply using the 2nd amendment as a carte blanche endorsement of gun rights seems a bit presumptive.
True, but letting people be even BIGGER assholes right back isn't good either.
Still though if you can't afford a decent defense long enough to make it to trial you can always be forced into an unfair settlement...
If the guy makes it to court then he'll almost certainly win.
Whether or not he has the resolve and stamina to make it that far is another thing. We are talking about a government entity after all, which are usually ten times worse than corporate ones.
Is milking v4 for all it's worth more profitable than going to v6?
Sounds like the ISP got their asses sued off and that their decision to block access to TPB wasn't necessarily completely willing.
"stupid women...they're inferior for a reason"
And who's to say that men are any smarter?
Isn't fabricating a SSN like that a federal offense?
They'd still be using US phone lines to make their harassing calls.
Ok, so they sided with you and told you they had the money from the other guy's account, only to turn around and give you a big fat zero when you show proof of sending?
Sounds like paypal lied to you.
Did you at least give the seller negative feedback for fraud?
TPB founders have already been convicted pretty much irreversibly and the fact that the judge in the case was blatantly biased was completely silenced.
TPB founders have nothing to worry about anymore since they've already been fried to a crisp.
Their website, their rules.
There IS a clause in the TOS somewhere that states they reserve the right to remove any picture for any or indeed NO reason.
I'm glad you're not on the jury then.
I'd compare MS's pilfering of i4i's product (which should never have been patented in the first place) to a pirate's pilfering of RIAA soundtracks (which enjoy far too draconian protection under copyright law).
That would be semantics nazi you insensitive clod!
Your geek card please.
A company that cares more about quality than about profits?
If you show me that, I'll show you a sow's wing.
Well technically it IS called the opinion of the court.
Which is entirely proper. Judges are humans and as such have opinions, and even Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned.
It's a good thing that SCOTUS makes opinion, not fact, otherwise Brown v. Board of Education would have torn a hole in the fabric of reality.
The stock market is not gambling.
Most of the folks who make the big bucks either ride it out for the long haul or are insiders.
You missed the part where he went bankrupt and screwed the winning customers out of their jackpots.