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I know we all hate what he is doing, but nothing he is doing is illegal. Is it immoral? That one is harder to answer, depending on your perspective. He is provi

I know we all hate what he is doing, but nothing he is doing is illegal. Is it immoral? That one is harder to answer, depending on your perspective. He is providing work for a whole set of new lawyers and staff in his company. He is getting money from companies that are already rich, like Apple, Microsoft, Intel (probably). Obviously we are all against it, but why is that? It doesn't affect most of us. Sure, he is making money of something he didn't create, but so do lots of peoples, anyone who owns a shop for one.

lionhearted 16y ago
Accidentally upvoted you. 1. The point is that the legal system is broken and he's doing something scummy by weaponizing the law. Just because something is legal/illegal doesn't change the right/wrongness of it. What he's doing is wrong. 2. "companies that are already rich" - this has a ripple effect that matters for everyone. All the money that is siphoned into the legal process isn't going to R&D, hiring, expansion, or giving people money to invest into other productive endeavors. But that's not the worst part, the worst part is it creates a huge scary barrier to entry for little guys who want to innovate. 3. It's not that he's making money off of something he didn't create, it's that he's not adding any value. He's not even pretending to add value, or questionably adding value. He's a parasite. Shopkeepers display and store things for you to use and make it easier to get what you want. Immigrants to the USA from the Soviet Union would always be amazed at supermarkets - "There's all this food? And you can just... buy it?" Truly, we live in a great era if people don't realize that stuff doesn't just magically appear all over the place for them to buy whenever they want. That kind of sorting, storing, logistics, display, packing, unpacking, and cleaning takes a lot of work and effort and planning, and adds a lot of value. This court lawsuit extortion racket does not add value, it destroys value.
loewenskind 16y ago
>He is providing work for a whole set of new lawyers and staff in his company. So drug dealers and pimps are good people then? They do, after all, provide jobs.
pwhelan 16y ago
I am asking in all seriousness, what about this venture seems moral? This screams sleazy personal injury lawyer to me that wants to sue for car collisions where the paint didn't even chip.
- megablast 16y ago
  As I said, he is not doing anything illegal, he is paying his staff, and he is only going after big companies. I can understand the patent system harming small companies is bad, and I understand there should be no patents on simple ideas, but going after big companies is not as bad.

lionhearted 16y ago

Accidentally upvoted you. 1. The point is that the legal system is broken and he's doing something scummy by weaponizing the law. Just because something is legal/illegal doesn't change the right/wrongness of it. What he's doing is wrong. 2. "companies that are already rich" - this has a ripple effect that matters for everyone. All the money that is siphoned into the legal process isn't going to R&D, hiring, expansion, or giving people money to invest into other productive endeavors. But that's not the worst part, the worst part is it creates a huge scary barrier to entry for little guys who want to innovate. 3. It's not that he's making money off of something he didn't create, it's that he's not adding any value. He's not even pretending to add value, or questionably adding value. He's a parasite. Shopkeepers display and store things for you to use and make it easier to get what you want. Immigrants to the USA from the Soviet Union would always be amazed at supermarkets - "There's all this food? And you can just... buy it?" Truly, we live in a great era if people don't realize that stuff doesn't just magically appear all over the place for them to buy whenever they want. That kind of sorting, storing, logistics, display, packing, unpacking, and cleaning takes a lot of work and effort and planning, and adds a lot of value. This court lawsuit extortion racket does not add value, it destroys value.

loewenskind 16y ago

>He is providing work for a whole set of new lawyers and staff in his company. So drug dealers and pimps are good people then? They do, after all, provide jobs.

pwhelan 16y ago

I am asking in all seriousness, what about this venture seems moral? This screams sleazy personal injury lawyer to me that wants to sue for car collisions where the paint didn't even chip.

megablast 16y ago
As I said, he is not doing anything illegal, he is paying his staff, and he is only going after big companies. I can understand the patent system harming small companies is bad, and I understand there should be no patents on simple ideas, but going after big companies is not as bad.