Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ...
by MichaelBurge on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:07AM
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Anyone can send you a scary letter claiming anything at any time. Your choices are always A. Ignore it B. Delete your comment or C. Pay a lawyer $500/hour for advice.
People have trouble conceptualizing small probabilities, so that minimum threshold of choosing A and being wrong times "all the money in the world"[1] might be > $500, so it's always rational[2] to delete your comment if you don't want to schedule time with a lawyer.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ...
by OzzyB on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:54AM
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So in other words, scary letters work because they're scary and make people scared. Sounds like the more people choose C the more these scary letters become self-fulfilling.
People have trouble conceptualizing small probabilities, so that minimum threshold of choosing A and being wrong times "all the money in the world"[1] might be > $500, so it's always rational[2] to delete your comment if you don't want to schedule time with a lawyer.
[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_o...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging