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You owe the bank $10,000 and don't pay, you have a problem. You owe the bank $10,000,000 and don't pay, the bank has a problem. You owe the RIAA $75,000,000,0
by smhinsey 16y ago
You owe the bank $10,000 and don't pay, you have a problem.
You owe the bank $10,000,000 and don't pay, the bank has a problem.
You owe the RIAA $75,000,000,000,000 and don't pay, who has the problem?
This seems like a great example of what I am sure will be an increasingly common problem as more and more laws are written by lobbyists. What do you do when they don't make any sense and were clearly never thought through?
It's so hard to be optimistic about the world in the face of this sort of thing, especially when there are instances of it everywhere you turn.
- jerf 16y agoYour analogy doesn't hold, because the first two are debts and the third is compensation for damages. You owe $75 trillion in illusory damages to a party, it's still you who has the problem. If we were talking real damages it might hold, but we're not talking real damages. And of course you can't pay $75 trillion, but you sure can be driven bankrupt.
- sad 16y agoAgreed. It almost feels like we're being herded into indentured servitude. Share a song you like? That'll be $40MM please. "Can't pay? We have this hole we need dug... On Mars... I hear it's cold there."