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Re: Techno Viking Takes Youtube Uploader To Court

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Post by Xylakant » Fri, May 10, 2013, 10:04 PM UTC

twistedpair wrote: post #48

Xylakant wrote: post #47

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There's two sides of the medal: In general, I do agree with you. However, large store chains (think walmart) have a larger lever in the power game between employer and employee, so they can force long working hours. The idea was to prevent that. The laws have been relaxed very much though - in Berlin there's 24h supermarkets and stores that open on sundays. However, in the smaller towns stores still close at 6 or 8,…

Don't forget that Walmart tried opening their stores in Germany and then pulled out.

Sure. They broke a couple of laws and tried to enforce some company policies that are actually not acceptable in germany. They were taken to court and lost and later sold off all their stores and left.

Re: Techno Viking Takes Youtube Uploader To Court

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Post by terolacu » Sat, May 11, 2013, 12:14 AM UTC

anExcitedBeast wrote: post #43

terolacu wrote: post #8

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> In Germany there is the so called "Recht am eigenen Bild" which means you cannot just film random people and share the images or even exploit them for money. This is a law specific to Germany I don't think that law is unusual, in Argentina we have it too, and sounds like something very basic anyone would want (though creeps don't seem to understand it, and act surprised when they realize such law exist, and start c…

How about filming police, or people activity participating in crime? And if you allow exceptions for that, who's to decide what constitutes crime and what happens to people who film perfectly legal acts that look suspicious?

I answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687247

Re: Techno Viking Takes Youtube Uploader To Court

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Post by gnarbarian » Sun, May 12, 2013, 12:28 AM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #36

gnarbarian wrote: post #27

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It drives up prices. I prefer having a choice. I don't need a 2 year warranty on simple cheap devices. But the warranty is always there for a small price for the important things (like my motherboard or laptop). Often times the additional cost of the mandatory warranty will put a product out of reach for people who would be happy with the mfr's standard warranty.

Warranty replacement costs are proportional to failure rate - for example, if 1% of devices will fail within 2 years, warranty costs would add 1% to the cost price. What sort of electronics products have a failure rate so high that the costs of a 2 year warranty is anything but trivial?

I am typing on a cheap Logitech K120 keyboard I got at Walmart. (at work I have a nice WASD[1] keyboard) I spent about $10 on this keyboard. if it stopped working in the next two years I wouldn't want to even bother dealing with the warranty mailing it back and waiting weeks for the replacement to arrive. I'd just throw it out and go buy another $10 keyboard.

1) http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/

Re: Techno Viking Takes Youtube Uploader To Court

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Post by epsylon » Sun, May 12, 2013, 7:35 AM UTC

gnarbarian wrote: post #53

michaelt wrote: post #36

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Warranty replacement costs are proportional to failure rate - for example, if 1% of devices will fail within 2 years, warranty costs would add 1% to the cost price. What sort of electronics products have a failure rate so high that the costs of a 2 year warranty is anything but trivial?

I am typing on a cheap Logitech K120 keyboard I got at Walmart. (at work I have a nice WASD[1] keyboard) I spent about $10 on this keyboard. if it stopped working in the next two years I wouldn't want to even bother dealing with the warranty mailing it back and waiting weeks for the replacement to arrive. I'd just throw it out and go buy another $10 keyboard. 1) http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/

I'd say that you chose a poor example as Logitech's customer service (in Europe at least) is second to none. They will send you replacements for free very easily, while asking only minimal proofs (usually your serial number is enough). I know plenty of people who got their mouse or keyboard replaced in a few days after contacting customer service, without being asked to send the defective one.