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I wonder if RIAA lawyers believe themselves productive members of society, or if they recognize themselves as the parasites they are.
yeah unlike us hackers who are saving the world with targeted ads and food delivery
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This line of questioning on Startup News is quite amusing to me, I must say. How many of us can really pretend to make society a better place?
At least some of us don't try to actively make it harder/worse. So that's a plus.
I mean Reddit; bastion of free speech or platform for hate speech? (they cracked down on that over the years) Dropbox; File synchronization and sharing platform or child porn exchange? Airbnb; Great way to find an affordable place to stay and / or rent out unused room, or platform for dodgy landlords that scam people with pretty pictures? Coinbase: Platform for libertarian wet dream crypto exchange, or platform for laundering your ill-gotten gains?
Just to name a few YC examples. Everything can be used for bad things and make the world a worse place, and they don't always do the right thing.
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yeah unlike us hackers who are saving the world with targeted ads and food delivery
Exactly, I'm not fan of these type of lawyers, but they aren't even close to the same level of damage being done by people who work at places like Facebook. I'm sure it's the usual case of a large enough salary helps you to forgot what a piece of shit you are.
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They see themselves as the last bastion of decency in a world full of violation.
This is neither here nor there but Nobel Prize winner Gerard 't Hooft has written an opinion piece on wrong-way drivers in science who seem convinced that everyone else is going the wrong way [1] (it's in Dutch unfortunately, but then the Dutch the word 'spookrider' (lit. 'ghostrider') is a lot cooler than 'wrong-way driver' IMHO). It's a concept that's somehow always stuck with me whenever I hear about people who se…
At least I could find several articles talking about ppl going the wrong way after searching for it + wrong direction.
I'm not a native speaker however
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This line of questioning on Startup News is quite amusing to me, I must say. How many of us can really pretend to make society a better place?
Well anyone who voluntarily enters into a work for hire arrangement is making society a better place. The employer wouldn't have done it unless they were benefitting and likewise for the employee. What is important is doing something people want.
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This line of questioning on Startup News is quite amusing to me, I must say. How many of us can really pretend to make society a better place?
Well anyone who voluntarily enters into a work for hire arrangement is making society a better place. The employer wouldn't have done it unless they were benefitting and likewise for the employee. What is important is doing something people want.
Nice...I bet the evil RIAA didn't think only about the two tests when they reported the project....
Actually that's all they complained about.