The misinformation isn’t the source of the problem, but rather the type of misinformation.

Defamation and libel cases are strongest when you’re speaking of someone’s career or facets which have a grave and clear impact on their life, earning power, and societal standing (this is called defamation per se). Someone…

The plaintiff was represented in a fictional work as who she was, name, language, nationality, and all. For all intents and purposes, legally, her claim is that she was represented in a defamatory way.

For example. Let’s imagine that someone you know writes a wholly fictional account concerning themselves (although…

I suppose it’s because those other prominent figures were one amongst many due to their race/ethnicity, and thus didn’t really stand out in an era where plenty of other white men were also successful. Woody Allen and Roman Polanski weren’t the only really successful and talented white directors in Hollywood and…

The one I can immediately think of, that doesn’t fall into either category (although he’s become an entertainer within his professional field), is Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Funnily enough, the last time (or perhaps the time before) he was on the podcast, a bunch of Rogan fans were complaining because Neil was basically being…

The thing is that he didn’t technically commit fraud.

It’s one thing to provide astronomical and unrealistic projections to investors as a private company: they have a responsibility to do their due diligence. What screwed Holmes was that she made claims about the efficacy of the underlying product which could either…

Apple is in a unique position to do anything they want because there’s literally millions of people around the world who will buy whatever they put out just because it has an Apple logo on it (case in point: a $20 microfiber cloth that’s CONSTANTLY sold out lol).

Consoles represent a new walled garden for thim with significantly higher profit margins and would allow them to capture a market that thus far they’ve struggled to maintain (although to be fair they’ve never really actively sought it out either).

Apple makes so much money from mobile gaming that there isn’t much financial incentive to get into the console/game development market.

At this point, they’re basically Steam but with much higher revenues, profits, and upside, since smartphones will only get more powerful and ubiquitous. Why spend money on a publisher…

I binged Season 1 last weekend after my friends were talking about season 2 episode 1. I enjoyed season 1. It was a very cool watch, with some really good performances with admittedly some troperific aspects (the big dumb jock is secretly gay/bi, the Latina is hyper-sexual and mean, the black girl has a missing…

They wouldn’t have to make them exclusive to make more money.

They could theoretically make more money by simply increasing the licensing fees for either Nintendo or Sony to have the titles on their systems. Sure, Nintendo and Sony might balk, but then Microsoft can come out and say, “We wanted to make these games…

Microsoft is sitting on a metric fuckton of cash without any real avenues to spend it, at least in the realms where Microsoft makes most of its money (purchases in those realms would trigger antitrust concerns from the DOJ and likely scuttle the deal, wasting billions in the process).

This isn’t actually that…

Well shit, we’re in agreement then hahaha

In one of my replies to Straw Man, I mentioned that certain copyright holders might find it in their economic benefit to be lax with the enforcement. However, their individual laxity shouldn’t be indicative, or a leading indicator, towards laxity being beneficial on the whole.…

The reality is that even if we assume the problems are widespread within the company, there’s always gonna be a certain percentage of the workforce within the protected classes who either won’t receive bad treatment (it’s not gonna happen to me), feel the bad treatment is made up for by the job (I’ve got bills to…

They didn’t lose money off the customer who always goes there cause it’s his favorite hangout and watches the PPV because it’s what’s on TV that night. He wasn’t buying that PPV anyway.

Exactly.

The PPE system was an absolute disgrace and a backhanded subsidy to scores of business, big and small, who misused the money and have been, thus far, fortunate to not be caught.

Not to defend what she did, but considering the vast amounts of money that far wealthier people have claimed via PPE loans and other Covid-related financial assistance, this does seem like a political vendetta that has finally snagged something to chew on.

Also, looking at the requirements, if she’s the top attorney…

Reading on Reddit about this, it appears that my last point has come to fruition in regards to the upstream sellers of the supposed box now lawyering up, making the situation muddy.

So Logan might be in the clear financially, now it’s a matter of the other people involved who profited off of the enterprise attempting…

I’ve had the good fortune of seeing Cedric and DL live. Both were very good (and DL was excellent, especially for a free college performance).

However, I always wanted to see Bernie since he was my favorite since I was younger, and was dismayed when he passed away. Thankfully, his last movie “Soul Men” had some of the…

That money is gone, probably converted to some form of crypto and in multiple wallets encrypted to the point that the police would spend more money and time trying to find it than they would recover.

Not only that, but his lawyers would have to prove that either BCE knew the cards weren’t Pokemon cards, or that they…

Sure they do, in the downstream.

UFC has a PPV. A person at home can buy it for $50. A bar owner (or restaurant, or club, or any commercial venture) pays 10-20x that amount (if not more). Why? Because the UFC (or HBO for boxing, or any PPV sporting event) knows that they’d lose a significant amount of revenue due to…