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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
@NatCh: cheap shot, my friend. Lawyers are like politicians: they take the abuse for the fact they we give them power in order to have convenience. Not all are bad, and some do good work.
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As the Wise Man said: Cheap shots are life's bargains.
(If you can get
that reference you deserve a cookie!)
As it happens, I count among my friends a few 'good' lawyers, including a Personal Injury Lawyer (aka ambulance chaser), who's getting pretty good at Laser Tag -- I've never met a
good lawyer who couldn't rip out half a dozen bad lawyer jokes off the top of their head.
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Originally Posted by rmeister0
Interesting debate, but I think an important point is that the issue in the RIAA lawsuits is really not reproduction but redistribution.
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True, but only because they can't get anyone to take a lawsuit against reproduction seriously -- where's the damage? But that doesn't mean they wouldn't file if they thought they stood a snowball's chance of winning....
