With how brazenly he's defying the court orders I don't think anything short of clapping him in irons and throwing him behind bars is going to do for what is probably very blatant contempt of court.
It's about a poor defenseless woman being outgunned in the legal arena and losing the case before it even starts because she's too broke to fight back.
A good rule of thumb is to consider yourself as a sample of everyone...and pretend that you are representative of the population as a whole.
While statistically unsound with a huge margin of error in reality, it does accurately model what things would be like if everyone did what you did.
That, in turn, should be the true measure of how futile trying to change things really is.
Sadly, that doesn't change anything because people can't vote for candidates that never make it to the ballot. And to do that, you have to get air time that is controlled by the same corporate overlords that join the incuments in the beds of the elite.
Come to think of it, if he uses any information from the FTC to aid MS he'd be violating it and be up for disciplinary action from the DC bar association.
It's also that our personal information is valuable enough that companies see profit in exploiting it, and when the majority of internet services feel the same way, you'll be hard pressed to withhold it and still be able to do business.
Your information is precious enough companies will lie, cheat, and steal to get it. One may as well try to squat on farmland during an oil rush. Sooner or later someone will find a way. If TOS loopholes aren't good enough there's always convenient "hack" attacks.
In theory, that large rock with a hole in it, or that lump of gold, will be worth the food or medicine you can swap it for if you can find someone to trade with.
In practice, someone will get wise to your desperation and use your dire need as leverage to get themselves a windfall at your expense.
And that person may well value your rock or gold a fair bit more than they are willing to pay for it when they know you don't have the privilege of refusing to negotiate.
The sad part is that governments probably won't lift a finger to help any victims unless they get their regulatory fingers in it first so that they can tax it.
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That only works if you give up your password.
It doesn't prove that they asked you, it only proves that you answered.
"black letter law"
I see what you did there.
Only convicted people serving an actual sentence get put to work in prison.
It sounds more like Revelations 13:17
I wonder if any of the mafiaa's defendents will ever get sick enough of the debacle to deny the dismissal and force the case through to the end.
This is no different than pick pocketing someone.
Usually stealing something directly from someone's person is a serious offense no matter how worthless it is.
Hell, if force is used it becomes robbery.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I don't think a contract can eliminate liability for tortious actions.
And getting immunity from a criminal case? Dream on.
It's spelled constant, not consant.
That's not good enough.
With how brazenly he's defying the court orders I don't think anything short of clapping him in irons and throwing him behind bars is going to do for what is probably very blatant contempt of court.
More like they got shot in the ass when they got caught trying to pull an ace out of their sleeve.
I think you can only disclaim ordinary negligence.
Last time I checked, *gross* negligence can't be contracted away.
It holds all the water the lawyers can carry.
This case is not about the merits.
It's about a poor defenseless woman being outgunned in the legal arena and losing the case before it even starts because she's too broke to fight back.
Not to worry, you just execute the car in a gas chamber.
Not to mention that someone potentially on the RIAA's legal radar may well have a good reason to remain anonymous.
You'll never completely stop copyright infringement.
I think rather this is a tactic to use liability as a weapon against the competition.
Find a website that hurts your business, go snooping for copyright infringing users, use liability to get the site shut down.
They don't hide it anymore because they don't need to anymore.
A good rule of thumb is to consider yourself as a sample of everyone...and pretend that you are representative of the population as a whole.
While statistically unsound with a huge margin of error in reality, it does accurately model what things would be like if everyone did what you did.
That, in turn, should be the true measure of how futile trying to change things really is.
Sadly, that doesn't change anything because people can't vote for candidates that never make it to the ballot. And to do that, you have to get air time that is controlled by the same corporate overlords that join the incuments in the beds of the elite.
Why aren't they being subtle about it?
Because they no longer have anything to fear from being caught.
The elite are immune to retribution.
Come to think of it, if he uses any information from the FTC to aid MS he'd be violating it and be up for disciplinary action from the DC bar association.
In practice, they're in on it.
It's not just that.
It's also that our personal information is valuable enough that companies see profit in exploiting it, and when the majority of internet services feel the same way, you'll be hard pressed to withhold it and still be able to do business.
Your information is precious enough companies will lie, cheat, and steal to get it. One may as well try to squat on farmland during an oil rush. Sooner or later someone will find a way. If TOS loopholes aren't good enough there's always convenient "hack" attacks.
Better yet, limit ourselves to apps in the windows mobile app store.
Never mind that their TOS forbids apps that have copyleft licenses.
In theory, that large rock with a hole in it, or that lump of gold, will be worth the food or medicine you can swap it for if you can find someone to trade with.
In practice, someone will get wise to your desperation and use your dire need as leverage to get themselves a windfall at your expense.
And that person may well value your rock or gold a fair bit more than they are willing to pay for it when they know you don't have the privilege of refusing to negotiate.
The sad part is that governments probably won't lift a finger to help any victims unless they get their regulatory fingers in it first so that they can tax it.
Basically what you mean is that... ...to a true capitalist, there is a market for everything. Including government influence.
Who the hell cares what the difference is, they're both seedy as hell.