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Being incredibly popular with consumers and the public will do that for you.
by argonaut 10y ago
Being incredibly popular with consumers and the public will do that for you.
- ceejayoz 10y agoStalking critics works, too. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/19/uber-investigates-top-executive-after-journalists-privacy-was-breached https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/19/uber-inve...
- chii 10y agoPiracy is incredible popular, and yet I can't see it being some sort of legal force...
- Rylinks 10y agoIt's hard to pay lawyers from the proceeds of piracy.
- intended 10y agoThus refuting the original point about it being about popularity. Simply put - using money to create legal power and abuse it in turn is how uber works. The fact that their service is popular just helps in PR - people will rationalize egregiously shady behavior instead of condemning it. As I see it the message from the article is "don't get caught". A sharp contrast from a few decades ago when "don't be evil" was considered a basic standard.
- xiaoma 10y agoIt's incredibly common. When dealing with failing political systems, the proceeds can go straight to judges, police or politician, too. http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/04/11/ending-somali-piracy-go-after-the-system-not-just-the-pirates http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/04/11/ending-s...
- ceejayoz 10y agoKim Dotcom managed it pretty well.
- CPLX 10y agoSo does paying top dollar to hire multiple people at the absolute highest levels of the world's political power structure, such as David Plouffe and others.
- joering2 10y agoHahahah! Tell that to Ross Ulbricht.
- argonaut 10y agoNews flash: if you polled the average American about Silk Road and the illicit things sold there, they'd be in favor of shutting it down.
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