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It seems like a more effective strategy than trying to lob legal threats at a foreign corporation is to target the people actually using the app. Pass a city or
by mrgriscom 12y ago
It seems like a more effective strategy than trying to lob legal threats at a foreign corporation is to target the people actually using the app. Pass a city ordinance with 100x damages for people who sell their public parking spot. Run a few stings; write a few $1-2k tickets. Problem solved.
- dap 12y agoIt sounds like you're suggesting pursuing tens or hundreds of small offenders whom many people would likely find sympathetic (caught in a sting -- for taking $4 for telling someone about a parking spot?) instead of a single offender that's making the whole problem possible. That approach depends on publicity from the people you catch to dissuade other people, but that publicity could be very negative for the city. Plus, you have to catch enough people for it to be compelling.
- mrgriscom 12y agoWell it just feels quixotic to me to sabre-rattle at some company in a place you have absolutely no jurisdiction over. And to me the real douchebags are the ones selling their parking spaces, so I'd welcome if they were the targets of enforcement. And if busting them does rouse public sympathy, you have to question if what they're doing should really be illegal. Maybe I also didn't fully understand how this app works. I thought it was one person camping out in their parking spot until the "buyer" arrives. If they are merely selling the information that their spot is now available, it's probably the same in practice, but the essence of it feels subtly different. Law is fascinating like that.
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