Re:Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse
by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:46PM
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> Not only is this a lie you've been willingly sold, it appears you've bought it and taken it home.
That was unkind. I didn't think we behaved that way, here, but I'm often wrong...
It certainly can be done, but that usually means the shareholders need to hold off on that second lambo. That doesn't often play well, in the boardroom.
Re:Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse
by shiroiuma on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:17AM
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I don't think OP was unkind at all; maybe a bit blunt, but telling someone you think they've been lied to and duped and that they're a victim is not unkind in my opinion. Powerful entities have been lying and duping common people for... well, probably for all of human history. The OP may or may not be correct, but from my reading of their post, I don't think they intended that as an attack of any kind, but rather a commiseration.
Not only is this a lie you've been willingly sold, it appears you've bought it and taken it home.
This said I don't think you should feel too bad, we the consumer buy these same lies all over the place "If we have to follow these regulations then it's going to be a big problem for the industry".
At the end of the day some of the problems do not scale easily and cheaply. In these cases business have the choice of willingly being good societal actors and taking a loss of profit in order to prevent issues, or by means of regulation be forced to behave in a fitting manner.