Z-library founders arrested in Argentina

Post by ankaAr » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 1:58 PM UTC

UncleEntity wrote: post #123

untech wrote: post #95

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Yeah, I was describing a perspective of a russia-born person who never actually travelled to the western hemisphere and whose knowledge of South American countries are formed by ambient osmosis, not active research. I know that no South American country supports the recent russian invasion (and thank god for that), but I was under the (apparently wrong) impression that there were non-trivial factions opposing the US.…

I doubt Venezuela would have extradited them but mostly all the countries in the Americas are on friendly terms. Of course there’s your standard disagreements between neighbors but, as far as I know, there’s no outright hostilities going on. Well, outside of some rebels and narco groups. Not like the 80s where the Soviets were stirring up trouble at least.

Post by rfrey » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 2:01 PM UTC

phpisthebest wrote: post #66

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #21

A small thought experiment: - Book sales in 2021 were about _9_ billion dollars. [0] - Wage theft in the US is estimated at _50_ billion dollars. [1] Can you imagine if the resources of the justice and labour departments would prioritize citizen wage over publishers' revenue? Would you rather have funds allocated towards social justice or have them spent on intimidating foreign nationals completely outside US jurisdi…

>>Would you rather have funds allocated towards social justice or have them spent on intimidating foreign nationals I would rather the justice department, and labor dept choose their targets for non-political reasons, neither for "social justice" nor corporate protectionism

Post by retconn » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

dimva wrote: post #84

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #21

A small thought experiment: - Book sales in 2021 were about _9_ billion dollars. [0] - Wage theft in the US is estimated at _50_ billion dollars. [1] Can you imagine if the resources of the justice and labour departments would prioritize citizen wage over publishers' revenue? Would you rather have funds allocated towards social justice or have them spent on intimidating foreign nationals completely outside US jurisdi…

Wage theft is committed by millions of employers, this "theft" was committed by just a few people. While I agree with your general sentiment, the resources required to prosecute wage theft would be vastly greater than to prosecute this case. That being said, they should definitely prosecute wage theft much more than they are now. Maybe the fear of jail time if wage theft were actually prosecuted a few times would det…

Post by Arkhaine_kupo » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #148

Arkhaine_kupo wrote: post #141

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> I remember Apple and Google did. Was there a broader conspiracy? I wrote FAANG cause I didn't remember all involved, which was my bad. It was Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay that got caught in the anti trust suit. Enough big players to seriously affect job opportunities and labour costs from rising. > This $415mm settlement [1]? That was the latest judge sentence, which I hadn't…

> I would argue 400 million is still low Low, but not so low that it makes wage conspiracies worth it.

Post by lc9er » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 2:08 PM UTC

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #21

A small thought experiment: - Book sales in 2021 were about _9_ billion dollars. [0] - Wage theft in the US is estimated at _50_ billion dollars. [1] Can you imagine if the resources of the justice and labour departments would prioritize citizen wage over publishers' revenue? Would you rather have funds allocated towards social justice or have them spent on intimidating foreign nationals completely outside US jurisdi…