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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by badlibrarian on Monday March 10, 2025 @10:31PM (#43328581)
It may be bad policy but it's not fraudulent.

Running a deficit can be profitable long term -- or not. It depends on how the funds are allocated. Ask Bezos.

Likewise a tax writeoff can increase tax revenue over the long term -- or not. It depends how the tax savings are applied. Ask the employees who still have their jobs.

Regardless, a media company struggling to breakeven with cartoon coyotes may not be the best starting point for an economics debate.

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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by nerdponx on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @08:22AM (#43331724)
It's fraudulent in the sense that it's a fake loss, as you say created by clever accounting.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by badlibrarian on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:44AM (#43332377)
That's not what I said. For avoidance of doubt, allow me to rephrase the concept in the local language: paying a bunch of artists and engineers to build an app that generates minimal revenue, pulling it from the app store, then writing off the loss, is neither clever nor fraudulent.
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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by nerdponx on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @10:03AM (#43332553)
Right, I get what you said.

I am arguing that it is in fact a fraud perpetrated against the taxpayer, even if it's not legally categorized as "fraud" at this time.

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Re:Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive,... by badlibrarian on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @10:58AM (#43333113)
Why is writing off a loss fraudulent? This very website is funded by such actions.
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