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I'd guess HiFi is pronounced Hi-Fee as it takes the "fi" sound from "High Fidelity".
Sure, but then WiFi would be expected to be pronounced the same -- yet I've never heard it pronounced as "Wi-Fee" in English.
I was already starting to think that I was the weird one.
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Yes obviously, how do you prove it was not you who made the call?
Voice? Being provably somewhere else when the call was made?
Prove you are somewhere else -> can you prove you were somewhere else 24/7? I bet you can not.
Can we shut down GEMA while we're at that?
Why? They are trying their best to collect a fair fee for artists. YouTube are the ones that have decided that those rules shouldn't apply to them and rather than accept those laws they use their own site as propaganda to blame GEMA. What you get presented on YouTube isn't telling the whole truth by any means. It is really annoying as a YouTube user in Germany to have so many music videos blocked, but that is what Go…
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Voice? Being provably somewhere else when the call was made?
Voice -> it is not recorded by default by anybody unless you are under the spotlight. Prove you are somewhere else -> can you prove you were somewhere else 24/7? I bet you can not.
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I'm really trying to understand how anyone can think this is sensible. Maybe 20 years ago when these laws were written by people who had never used WiFi at a cafe before, but surely everyone involved with writing this bill intuits that this sort of a measure is utterly worthless and just induces frictions. Maybe it enables prosecution later for lying? Hard to believe they think that outweighs the costs.
Is that really why we have these? The illegal act is still illegal, so they just want to be able to tack on additional charges?
http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/28/news/economy/illegal-income-...