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Offline Aardwolf

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Re: Evil RIAA levied taxes on burnable storage
Reply #20 on: July 25, 2010, 12:51:04 pm
Quote from: Herra Tohtori on July 25, 2010, 09:45:20 am
Books are burnable storage, when can we expect this tax to cover notebooks and blank paper?

Hell, with a printer-scanner you could COPY AN ENTIRE BOOK with ease!

"This document will self-destruct if photocopied" or somesuch.
 

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Re: Evil RIAA levied taxes on burnable storage
Reply #21 on: July 25, 2010, 03:13:55 pm
Huh... so the RIAA is a non-governmental organization, right?  And they are choosing to raise rates across the board in concert with one another...  Sounds an awful lot like a cartel, and afaik cartels are illegal in the US. All we need is a way to show how that infringes unfairly on open marked competition and someone may be able to use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on these wankers. 
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Evil RIAA levied taxes on burnable storage
Reply #22 on: July 25, 2010, 04:23:22 pm
Quote from: esarai on July 25, 2010, 03:13:55 pm
Huh... so the RIAA is a non-governmental organization, right?  And they are choosing to raise rates across the board in concert with one another...  Sounds an awful lot like a cartel, and afaik cartels are illegal in the US. All we need is a way to show how that infringes unfairly on open marked competition and someone may be able to use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on these wankers. 


Unfortunately, should any of our leaders choose that course Washington will be neck deep in campaign contributions, with the monsoon like downpour of lobbyst money washing away any hope of that ever happening.
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Offline Aardwolf

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Re: Evil RIAA levied taxes on burnable storage
Reply #23 on: July 26, 2010, 11:19:53 am
Quote from: Kosh on July 25, 2010, 04:23:22 pm
Quote from: esarai on July 25, 2010, 03:13:55 pm
Huh... so the RIAA is a non-governmental organization, right?  And they are choosing to raise rates across the board in concert with one another...  Sounds an awful lot like a cartel, and afaik cartels are illegal in the US. All we need is a way to show how that infringes unfairly on open marked competition and someone may be able to use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on these wankers. 


Unfortunately, should any of our leaders choose that course Washington will be neck deep in campaign contributions, with the monsoon like downpour of lobbyst money washing away any hope of that ever happening.

Huh? You're saying if somebody tries to go anti-trust on the RIAA, they'll put more money in to see to it it doesn't happen?
 

Offline S-99

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Re: Evil RIAA levied taxes on burnable storage
Reply #24 on: July 26, 2010, 06:18:05 pm
Welcome to america's crony capitalism. Capitalism was never a bad system, but it gets horrible when there is no regulation of any kind. So now basically my country's government is controlled by big businesses. Too many conflicts of interest with the members of my government who were placed there carefully by the big businesses that had a chance at getting themselves more power.

RIAA and MPAA are among these big corrupted businesses (on another note microsoft). Otherwise, normally in capitalism, you have a dying business model, either adapt or die/foreclose/bankruptcy.
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Offline Aardwolf

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Re: Evil RIAA levied taxes on burnable storage
Reply #25 on: July 26, 2010, 07:09:37 pm
Big corrupted businesses? Isn't that a little redundant?
 

Offline S-99

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Re: Evil RIAA levied taxes on burnable storage
Reply #26 on: July 26, 2010, 10:29:45 pm
Yeah :lol:
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