I would, despite what they have done. Not because I forgive them or anything, and I am just as suspicious of their true motivations as anyone else here. But I think that if their 'experiment' with this model fails, it will be seen as justification to perpetuate the status quo. However if we can swallow this bitter pill and get one of the earliest and highest profile critics to come out in our favour (whatever their real motives), that could prove to be an important turning point in bringing down the old world order. Surrendering in the battle with Metallica could end up being a move that would win us the war against the RIAA.
So they have a whole 2 success stories, 10 months apart, going back to 2006. Admittedly there may well be plenty that are not published because the owners did not want any publicity. But my question is, compared to the number of licenses they sell, how many thefts get reported, and how many of those get recovered, or at least tracked down?
Actually, even in the case of ownership or possession, you are still technically using the apostrophe to denote missing letters. As further down the article you linked to is a paragraph confirming what my English teacher at school once taught me. Which is that historically, going way back, ownership or possession was denoted with the suffix -es. So the apostrophe is usually indicating the missing e, or in cases where the noun ends in s, the apostrophe indicates the es suffix being missing entirely.
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I would, despite what they have done. Not because I forgive them or anything, and I am just as suspicious of their true motivations as anyone else here. But I think that if their 'experiment' with this model fails, it will be seen as justification to perpetuate the status quo. However if we can swallow this bitter pill and get one of the earliest and highest profile critics to come out in our favour (whatever their real motives), that could prove to be an important turning point in bringing down the old world order. Surrendering in the battle with Metallica could end up being a move that would win us the war against the RIAA.
So they have a whole 2 success stories, 10 months apart, going back to 2006. Admittedly there may well be plenty that are not published because the owners did not want any publicity. But my question is, compared to the number of licenses they sell, how many thefts get reported, and how many of those get recovered, or at least tracked down?
"If the evidence wasn't good enough, the case wouldn't have made it to court"
So, remind me of our purpose in these proceedings again?
Actually, even in the case of ownership or possession, you are still technically using the apostrophe to denote missing letters. As further down the article you linked to is a paragraph confirming what my English teacher at school once taught me. Which is that historically, going way back, ownership or possession was denoted with the suffix -es. So the apostrophe is usually indicating the missing e, or in cases where the noun ends in s, the apostrophe indicates the es suffix being missing entirely.