Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty

Re:Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty by tptacek on Thursday June 18, 2009 @09:27PM (#664458)

You mean the fact that we fund public schools with local property taxes, right?

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Re:Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty by rw on Friday June 19, 2009 @08:57AM (#665021)

I have to agree with you, Thomas. While IP law in the United States is clearly full of problems, we cannot ignore the simple numbers: millions of childrens' lives are worsened every year, through no fault of their own, just because of where, or to whom, they were born.

Healthcare? Quality education? Who gives a fuck- I want my free mp3s!

There's a reason the American dream isn't called the American reality: widespread socioeconomic injustice is alive and well in the United States of America.

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Re:Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty by tokenadult on Thursday June 18, 2009 @10:29PM (#664537)

You mean the fact that we fund public schools with local property taxes, right?

In Minnesota, schools are funded with general state taxation on a per-enrollment basis. But that doesn't keep the government-run schools from being remarkably ineffective.

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Re:Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty by ivankirigin on Friday June 19, 2009 @09:43PM (#666046)

That isn't the case in a lot of states that aggregate the taxes and disperse them. Texas does this, I think.

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