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You always have the right to refuse though and have the courts sort it out, should they choose to pursue a case.
by robryan 14y ago
You always have the right to refuse though and have the courts sort it out, should they choose to pursue a case.
- ShaneOG 14y agoThe idea being that for "normal" people, doing anything through the civil justice system is far too expensive and time consuming than just paying out up front. So the choice is simply: Pay X up front and promise not to tell anyone, then be left alone OR Don't pay, attempt to fight it in court (using lawyers/solicitors/barristers) and absorbing the cost of this upfront yourself, regardless of the outcome.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoNew start up idea; propose the same deal to everyone that is likely to not fight in court.
- Evbn 14y agoThat's not new, that is the tort law industry.
- DigitalSea 14y agoIf you or I tried to do this, we'd be sued into oblivion for blackmail because that's what this is, blackmail. Pay us money and we won't tell on you. This world is messed up.
- jrogers65 14y agoI believe that this is a side effect of the corporatist political system we find ourselves in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism Some interesting quotes on the subject - http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/corporatism http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/corporatism
- aes256 14y agoThere have been more egregious examples of this with regards to piracy of pornography. A few of the accused tend to stand up (grandparents who don't even own a computer, etc.) but I bet most just pay up to avoid the embarrassment of being dragged through the courts accused of pirating some smut.
- Zenst 14y agoCourts are best as you can put in counter claims and with todays technlology we still don't have storage that ties up that data to a user that is as good as DNA and DNA is not perfect. Counter sue, entrapment, backmail, bullying, cartell - just anything remotely tangable then chuck it at them back. There rules after all