By your strategy, we should also exterminate you for telling us about it, thus proving you have a connection down the chain with the people who actually did it, right?
Still doesn't apply, though since you're probably being sarcastic I'd actually agree with what you truly mean.
In this case, we have a loaf of bread made by MANY bkaers, but through the magic of intellectual property, that same loaf of bread can be copied many times.
if you steal one of those duplicated loaves, the damage you cause should be the wages of all the bakers DIVIDED BY the number of copies of bread, or at most, how much that bread would have sold for if you had bought it.
But no, there's this stupid baker's guild that mandates huge fines for every loaf stolen, ostensibly on some grounds that it's hard to figure out.
That guild is the MAFIAA and their dong sucker buddies in congress.
They are abusing the letter of the law and raping its intent. And they damn well know it too.
Considering recent decisions from SCOTUS I don't have much faith in them.
Assuming you AND scotus don't BOTH call your bluff that the case will never get heard to begin with.
SCOTUS has discretionary review, and even a blatantly unconstitutional verdict will stand if SCOTUS, in its overburdened docket, doesn't see fit to review it.
So you actually have a lot to gain if you can bullshit your way through an appeal, snooker the judges, and bet with VERY good odds that SCOTUS will be too busy to take the case for cert if the other side appeals.
Mind you I think it would be better if SCOTUS took its job head on and started smacking appellate judges that screw up bad enough to get their attention in the first place...or smacking lawyers who waste their precious time by frivolously appealing a case after the appellate level got it right.
Presently, it's just a legal slugfest where who wins is whoever has more rope to hang the other guy with. And the referee at the top who is supposed to be keeping it a fair fight is stuck with a system that rewards people for cheating so often that most of them don't get caught becuase the ref has his hands full with bigger fights (such as circuit splits).
Kinda like how IBM stood its ground and made life hell for anyone who dared take them for a ride in court. If SCOTUS buckled down and started bitchslapping people that, counsel OR judge, waste its time, things would straighten out in a hurry.
In the GP's hypothetical situation, it's my job to keep order in the restaurant. Having someone on my staff with the disposition to take matters into her own hands with a blatant violation of the health code is a major liability.
And if karma sees fit to have my cook spit in my customer's food AND not let me catch them in the act, so be it. My own senses are limited and that is a situation beyond my awareness. And if enough cooks out there see spitting in food as an acceptable act of revenge, and I can't hire anyone because I won't let them spit in a jackass's food? Then I might reconsider my hardline stance against spitting, either that or stick to my principles and just go out of business.
What I can do is make my own position clear and repel as much of that as I can. I will have better cooks who aren't prone to being vindictive, and I will have better customers who aren't prone to being dicks to my staff. Will keeping my restaurant at a minimum level of class help my bottom line? Hopefully.
Strangely enough, I predict that karma will reward ME for sticking to my principles.
Tenenbaum should answer to the state on perjury charges, not have the RIAA jump on it as an excuse to milk damages out of him they never deserved to collect in the first place.
Yes, he owes, but he owes society at large and should be filling the public coffers, not lining the pockets of the RIAA.
He wasted *taxpayer* money on this, not the RIAA's
Racial profiling from assholes like you explain exactly why legal trouble comes looking for blacks and makes this nothing more than a self fulfilling prophecy.
Or maybe they're just greedy fuckers that don't care, and see this as nothing but a chance to set precedent and give their future extortion victims more incentive to bend over and pay up.
For 2 we have something called the statute of limitations 3 doesn't excuse an outrageously unconstitutional judgement 4 is a crime called "perjury" that he should have been thrown in prison for 5 seems to make him vicariously liable for an infinite chain of cascades that has yet to be proven, and assumes that he directly or indirectly uploaded to a bazillion different people.
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In most cases killing a cop gets you put on death row.
That only works because he has shunned his past sins.
IV, however, continues to patent troll.
I'm sorry, but if you've been lying with fleas don't expect me to invite you into my kennel until you've been dipped.
By your strategy, we should also exterminate you for telling us about it, thus proving you have a connection down the chain with the people who actually did it, right?
Still doesn't apply, though since you're probably being sarcastic I'd actually agree with what you truly mean.
In this case, we have a loaf of bread made by MANY bkaers, but through the magic of intellectual property, that same loaf of bread can be copied many times.
if you steal one of those duplicated loaves, the damage you cause should be the wages of all the bakers DIVIDED BY the number of copies of bread, or at most, how much that bread would have sold for if you had bought it.
But no, there's this stupid baker's guild that mandates huge fines for every loaf stolen, ostensibly on some grounds that it's hard to figure out.
That guild is the MAFIAA and their dong sucker buddies in congress.
They are abusing the letter of the law and raping its intent. And they damn well know it too.
Considering recent decisions from SCOTUS I don't have much faith in them.
Assuming you AND scotus don't BOTH call your bluff that the case will never get heard to begin with.
SCOTUS has discretionary review, and even a blatantly unconstitutional verdict will stand if SCOTUS, in its overburdened docket, doesn't see fit to review it.
So you actually have a lot to gain if you can bullshit your way through an appeal, snooker the judges, and bet with VERY good odds that SCOTUS will be too busy to take the case for cert if the other side appeals.
Mind you I think it would be better if SCOTUS took its job head on and started smacking appellate judges that screw up bad enough to get their attention in the first place...or smacking lawyers who waste their precious time by frivolously appealing a case after the appellate level got it right.
Presently, it's just a legal slugfest where who wins is whoever has more rope to hang the other guy with. And the referee at the top who is supposed to be keeping it a fair fight is stuck with a system that rewards people for cheating so often that most of them don't get caught becuase the ref has his hands full with bigger fights (such as circuit splits).
Kinda like how IBM stood its ground and made life hell for anyone who dared take them for a ride in court. If SCOTUS buckled down and started bitchslapping people that, counsel OR judge, waste its time, things would straighten out in a hurry.
Also, attempting to tamper with the jury selection process is a class B felony in my state.
No I don't, but I'm not going to give myself a permanent felony record by perjuring myself during voir dire if asked about it.
Not to mention that jury misconduct of this sort tends to earn mistrials.
Or in more general terms, an arms dealer.
In a nuclear war, being in the uranium business is quite lucrative.
Interesting how the lawyer's guild is also the one WRITING most of these stupid laws in the first place.
Ever notice how the first stepping stone to running for office is often getting a law degree?
It's a guild, like it or not, because outsiders (especially voters) don't seem to get to have any real say in how things are done.
Nice strawman there.
Perhaps my sample of "works that were retroactively removed" included much MORE than just this single example you speak of?
Hell, you have yet to prove I was even talking about that movie in the first place. As you admit, you only suspect it.
It's my mouth, please don't put your own words in it.
The only friction they are removing is by greasing the path from my pocket to their pocket.
And I'd rather there BE friction there, since it's my pocketbook on the line.
Sadly it only forbids private property from being taken.
Most likely the elite will see you as competition on their turf and use underhanded techniques to get you out of their way.
You are not a party to their gentleman's agreement.
Lenient treatment from the authorities.
From his fellow prisoners once they find out he snitched on his buddies to get a lighter sentence? Not really quite as sure about that.
Not many can stand to having their balls squeezed to near bursting by the powers that REALLY be.
The same hacks that passed obamacare because they're sucking corporate dong. And who also tried to pass SOPA, PIPA, ACTA...
Do I need to go on about how corrupt our government is that it's the lapdog of the elite?
Which, if you're a maniac with an ace of 72 virgins in heaven up your sleeve, means that you still win.
Or if your former CEO left you with a mandate to scorch the earth.
Either way, if in your mind you have nothing to actually lose, then launching nukes to get the satisfaction of destroying the enemy IS a way to win.
In the GP's hypothetical situation, it's my job to keep order in the restaurant. Having someone on my staff with the disposition to take matters into her own hands with a blatant violation of the health code is a major liability.
And if karma sees fit to have my cook spit in my customer's food AND not let me catch them in the act, so be it. My own senses are limited and that is a situation beyond my awareness. And if enough cooks out there see spitting in food as an acceptable act of revenge, and I can't hire anyone because I won't let them spit in a jackass's food? Then I might reconsider my hardline stance against spitting, either that or stick to my principles and just go out of business.
What I can do is make my own position clear and repel as much of that as I can. I will have better cooks who aren't prone to being vindictive, and I will have better customers who aren't prone to being dicks to my staff. Will keeping my restaurant at a minimum level of class help my bottom line? Hopefully.
Strangely enough, I predict that karma will reward ME for sticking to my principles.
Tenenbaum should answer to the state on perjury charges, not have the RIAA jump on it as an excuse to milk damages out of him they never deserved to collect in the first place.
Yes, he owes, but he owes society at large and should be filling the public coffers, not lining the pockets of the RIAA.
He wasted *taxpayer* money on this, not the RIAA's
Racial profiling from assholes like you explain exactly why legal trouble comes looking for blacks and makes this nothing more than a self fulfilling prophecy.
Gee, I wonder why a company like Microsoft that writes perfect code would ever lobby against this...
Or maybe they're just greedy fuckers that don't care, and see this as nothing but a chance to set precedent and give their future extortion victims more incentive to bend over and pay up.
Some court judgements do go away in bankruptcy.
For 2 we have something called the statute of limitations
3 doesn't excuse an outrageously unconstitutional judgement
4 is a crime called "perjury" that he should have been thrown in prison for
5 seems to make him vicariously liable for an infinite chain of cascades that has yet to be proven, and assumes that he directly or indirectly uploaded to a bazillion different people.
That jury was hand weeded during voir dire, and is not a fair sample of the population.
Legal wise guys that actually know the law are usually the first to go.
It's not just made out of people that are too dumb to get out of it, but also those too smart to get to stay in.