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Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by spike021 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:47PM (#16057033)
If you don't mind me asking, is there any particular reason you didn't just leave? I'd imagine this fits the kind of situation where you aren't obligated to stay.
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by xab9 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:01AM (#16059120)
The billion dollar question. Why didn't you leave.

Couple of weeks ago been talking to a coworker and said him that _sometimes_ people end up in uncomfortable situations. Family, children, debt, divorce, medical, elderly parents and so on - he said, that's not possible, because people _should_ plan their lives.

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by Terr_ on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:39AM (#16059679)
Ah, the Just World Hypothesis. "Something bad happens, you must've screwed up somehow. Just look at me, I'm doing fine and I instinctively know that random good-luck had nothing to do with it."
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:31AM (#16060142)
You forgot the most important psychological part "... and if that wasn't true, then life would be terrifying".

People believe in the witchdoctor's raindance because the alternative is to believe your entire life is at the mercy of the random chance of weather and could be destroyed at any moment. Which is true, but hard to deal with mentally.

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by RobertoG on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:20AM (#16060374)
I think that effect it's called by psychologists "fundamental attribution error". It has been studied for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by Sinergy2 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:18AM (#16061632)
It's called the Just World Hypothesis and has indeed been studied for decades.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by Terr_ on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:38PM (#16067852)
They are certainly related, but not quite the same.

JWT is based on whether positive or negative outcomes were "deserved" and the extent to which randomness exists.

In contrast, FAE touches on what you believe motivated an individual to act, and whether it was innate or circumstantial.

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by sirmarksalot on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:58PM (#16057089)
Depending on the timeline, this may have overlapped with the dot-com crash, in which case a programmer would be happy to have any job they could get.
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by gus_massa on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:33AM (#16061775)
Did he get paid for his work during these two years? It doesn't look like a funny work [1] but it brings home the bacon.

[1] Perhaps the first wave is interesting, but the third or fourth time is probably a little repetitive.

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by amigoingtodie on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:53PM (#16057063)
I am guessing stock options/vesting.

I believe Alanis took mp3.com stock as payment.

That was a different time.

The Beam-it software was pretty cool.

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by ssharp on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:21AM (#16060715)
It was a different time, but probably not that different figuratively.

Things like Shatner taking Priceline stock to be their spokesperson played into the dot-com mania narrative of the time, but now that's seen as a shrewd business move. 50 Cent had a $60-100 million exit with Vitamin Water and Lebron had a $30 million exit with Beats.

Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by ryanisnan on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:13PM (#16057183)
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Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by dang on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:04AM (#16058870)
Please don't do this here.
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by spike021 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:05PM (#16058285)
How does that work if the company was being sued? Do they have some kind of reserve to pay current employees with?
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by kickopotomus on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:28PM (#16058393)
Being tied up in a lawsuit does not grind a company to a halt. Most of the Fortune 500 is probably getting sued right now for some reason or another. Also, when a company loses a lawsuit, the court doesn’t automatically debit the damages from the company. Winning a case and collecting damages are 2 very different things.
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by spike021 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:22AM (#16058676)
Thanks for the explanation, wasn't sure how that kind of thing works.
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by chriszelazo on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @09:01PM (#16057690)
Definitely al about the money
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:56AM (#16058833)
Yes. That's literally the reason most of us deal with bullshit at our dayjobs every day.
Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by _eht on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:43AM (#16058767)
Oh, hey man!