Like lawsuits! Gee, I bet the lawyer who thought of that got a raise.BabyRaptor said:According to Torrent Freak, none of the money is going to the artists. It's all going to fund "future anti-piracy efforts."
Yeah, that's what more restrictive intellectual property laws are for, too. But wouldn't it be horrible if poor Walt Disney's family were starving on the streets, like they will be if Steamboat Willie goes out of copyright?BabyRaptor said:That's a load of bull, IMO...Supposedly they were suing LimeWire to defend the artists.
IP trolls and IP holders don't care about the artists. They never have, they never will. Musicians sell a million albums and somehow end up owing the label money [http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love]. A company's executives can copyright something they had made as a work-for-hire, so the artist has no right to his own creative output. And yet, it's "the artist they're protecting" when they sue someone for uploading a hit MP3 that the artist (or his estate, if he's dead) didn't see a penny of profit from.
Step 1: Smoke a lot of opium.freaper said:Can someone explain me how companies can calculate the money they didn't receive?
Step 2: Pick a really big number.
Step 3: Pile bullshit on that number until you think you can get away with it.
Step 4: Get Botox injections if you can't say the number with a straight face. Write off as a business expense.