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Yeap, I'll have to agree with Karunamon bellow : "Lawyers fucking ruin everything."

• chao- 14y ago
  Except when they save you money? As in the famous "Fuck you. Pay me." video: http://vimeo.com/22053820 http://vimeo.com/22053820 I think it's more nuanced than simply "Lawyers are bad!" The cost of litigation, even when you are likely to win, is so high that it encourages whatever behaviors best avoid litigation, rather than whatever behavior fulfills the original goals of the company/sector/system. Companies and even entire sectors, once well-established, would rather optimize for continual, guaranteed success within a subpar ecosystem than risk losing big just to allow an environment of marginally more satisfied "informed consumers", or what-have-you. Edit: I am rambling about "the system" and such, without offering any solutions, partly because I'm at a loss for one. The best I can muster would be for legal fees and penalties to be in a range that does not warrant selecting such behavior. But that topic is a deep rabbit hole unto itself.