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It was the common man who shared video rentals yesterday, while it's businesses who monitor and monetize today. Just wait until you see how white collar crime
by Drakim 7y ago
It was the common man who shared video rentals yesterday, while it's businesses who monitor and monetize today.
Just wait until you see how white collar crime is punished compared to street crimes!
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- mycall 7y agoLet me guess. Mostly ignored.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y agoBasically encouraged would be more accurate.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoOP was talking about rental records. That would be Blockbuster telling a marketer which videos you rented, not you lending a rented video to a friend.
- greglindahl 7y agoThis is why we have the video rental privacy law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork > During debate over his nomination, Bork's video rental history was leaked to the press. His video rental history was unremarkable, and included such harmless titles as A Day at the Races, Ruthless People, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Writer Michael Dolan, who obtained a copy of the hand-written list of rentals, wrote about it for the Washington City Paper.[36] Dolan justified accessing the list on the ground that Bork himself had stated that Americans had only such privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.[37][38]
- arpa 7y agoThis is just ... sad.