“The company that operates the canal” appears to just be the Egyptian government, but yeah, it looks like they themselves would be at fault in the event this is down to human error. Fair point.

I suspect the Egyptian government’s investigation is not going to conclude that, however.

The canal pilots work for the company that operates the canal, not for the shipping company. So if the canal pilots screwed up the navigation, they’re acting as an extension of the company that operates the canal, making the company liable for running the ship aground.

That depends on the outcome of the investigation.

Each comment you make is more ignorant than the previous one.

The Corporations will assassinate him and anyone in Egypt trying to fuck with their money...

The boat owner claims the charterer is responsible, the Egyptians want payment from the owner...but ultimately, it was the pilots from Egypt’s Suez authority who were at the helm during the accident.

Considering the ship only cost around $200 million to build, abandoning the ship is cheaper than the extortion Egypt is trying to pull.

General Average has already been declared, so the shippers are already screwed.

Sir the logic thread you’re seeking is somewhere else.

Yeah, I’d consider it. Get a private helicopter to rescue the crew after they T-bone the canal again. If the company isn’t worth a billion it might be better to dissolve the company and show them why taking hostages isn’t advisable when their system is proven to be easily screwed over.

Works for me. That thing is still in the Suez, right?

 That doesn’t include the cost of the repairs that will have to be made to the canal itself or the overtime for the folks who helped free the monster container ship.

how much with Egypt pay to not have them just sink it in the canal again and walk away?

or holding actual humans for ransom

So will the companies and individuals who still have cargo on the ship sue Egypt for holding it ransom?

Negative. The laws have to be written to deal with unreasonable actors, otherwise what’s the point? Nothing should remain in copyright after 25 years. Period. 

90 years or whatever isn’t reasonable. No human being can take advantage of terms like that.

Yeah, if this is really a problem, the villain isn’t game creators/publishers (who probably have their hands full with their current products) but the laws that let them retain total control long after commercial viability.

I wish publishers and more movers and shakers, generally, cared about preservation. Imagine if the move from film to VHS to DVD to Blu-ray killed, say, The Wizard of Oz. You have all these consoles with different architecture, different controls, different modes of copy-protection and multiple different things you…

If we just had reasonable copyright law, none of this would be an issue, but here we are. 

It is Robopine. The writer made a typo