How can you call that logic? Clearly, as she must pay $24m for a copyright claim, then those corporations ought to also pay around $24m for their legal obligations.
ogmios
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In September last year, the court ruled a default judgment in favour of Grumpy Cat Ltd. The company was awarded damages of US$100,000 per defendant.
If the payments were made in full, the company would win more than US$24m.
Curtis earned just over US$1 from the sale. In the six years she had been running her store, she had generated about US$200 in revenue.
This is why copyright laws are a joke to the public. Corporations can infringe with wanton abandon and pay pennies on the dollar as just a cost of doing business. Random nobody makes a simple mistake and gets raked over the coals for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND times what she actually made.
$568m is a day Apple will never get back!
Palestinians
I've put a fair bit of effort into trying to understand the Japanese perspective, because as a northerner it frankly displays an odd contrast of values to me, being extremely sexually liberal, while also holding firm to tradition and social responsibility. It appears to me as though they manage this by maintaining quite clear social boundaries regarding empathy for each other's individual perspective, and so they don't appreciate when things which hold a strong sentimental place in many people's hearts, such as the master of anime's unique style, or a Shinto shrine in a popular video game, are portrayed in an uncharitable light within the public sphere.
The tools matter because of the sheer volume of content which literally any meth head can produce, which has already severely tainted the whole online ecosystem, and will only get worse.
You kidding? Mods around here don't allow things that challenge the orthodoxy too succinctly.
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I mean, all I can say is that 5 years ago we were trying to get people to buy local because of China, and now Trump has managed to get all the people who didn't listen back then to become really hardcore about buying local now, thanks to his tariffs.