Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 12/12/06 00:11

On 12/08/2006, Colin B posted this:
> "Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote in message
> news:mn.43497d6ca4d3dd9e.1980@nobody.invalid...
>
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>> OK, most of those will be due to fraud by the submitter - but if the
>> content owners wanted to start a flood of lawsuits, the provider would go
>> broke on the cost of proving that fraud, not to mention on the small
>> fraction of lawsuits that the content owners do win.
>>
>> Mainly, I think we should just hire PTravel to represent "us" (we the
>> people) in Washington, to get the gov't to implement the ideas he proposed
>> above.
>
> Why would content owners only win a small fraction of lawsuits, they must be
> fairly sure of their ground before suing?

Strategy.

If the content owners did it, it would be as a strategy to break the
bank of the video site, on the theory that the site's pockets couldn't
handle the flood of lawsuits that the content owners *could* afford.

Actually, I thought that's what I had said ...

<SNIPPING points better answered by others in this subthread :-) >

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