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It's hard to pay lawyers from the proceeds of piracy.
by Rylinks 10y ago
It'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.