1. Why is it that people think that just saying “they’re in business to make money” automatically justifies blatantly shitty conduct?

ISP’s neglect to upgrade their infrastructure, while drastically over-stating their bandwidth capabilities, and then resort to “traffic-management” schemes, while blaming their problems on “that kid with Napster” (Hi, Tom!) — but somehow that’s wonderful because, after all, they’re “in business to make money”.

Or: the MAFIAA lobbies governments to have entire technologies outlawed, their spokes-drone compares the VCR to the Boston Strangler, they attempt to sue anything they can’t get banned (including their own best customers) — but, yet again, that’s wonderful because they’re “in business to make money”.

Pardon me for sounding “radical” here, but it’s almost as if repeating the mantra “in business to make money” is nothing more than an excuse. “Don’t take it personal, it’s just business!”.

Wow, no wonder people distrust (or outright hate) “business”-types.

(Yet again, I’ll urge y’all to watch that “corporation” documentary I mentioned a while back.)

Is it any wonder that corporations do the type of shit they do, when everybody involved simply excuses it as the “costs of doing business?”

The worst — and lowest — culprits aren’t even the ripoff artists: it’s the people who apologize for/justify such conduct.

It’s like somebody going “well, you can’t really blame the guy for using rufinol to drug his date — after all, he WAS out to get laid, and she mnight have said no!”

Pathetic.

Nail ‘em to the wall, Jon.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9698

>They are going to come at you like they came at ‘tereastarr,’ Jonathan James, Web Hacker spoke of the endless possibilities the software provides to the Kazaa community “They are going to come at you like they came at ‘tereastarr,’” he said.

Too bad the Nikki Hemming “I am not a crook” libel trial isn’t being held in Australia, where there’s likely no shortage of witnesses who could testify that the supposedly “defamatory” things reported about her **and more** are indeed true. Discovery could no doubt expose a lot of skeletons in her huge closet.

I hope you kick Kazaa’s ass in court. (Oh wait am I allowed to say they have an ass?)