Comcast Kills Business Model of Piracy Settlement Firm

So this company makes money off lawsuits for copyright stuff they don't even own? How and why is this even legal? If copyright holders want to sue people they should have to do it themselves. But they own the government, so the government will let them do whatever is easiest and most profitable for them.

What Comcast is doing is great though, hopefully more ISPs do this.
 
The idea is that the copyright owners do not have the money to sustain a full lawsuit. So they contract put for the suit. The problem comes in where, as with Righthaven, they have insufficient rights granted by the (c) owner to have standing to sue.

For rights holders, and society this is a good thing, generally.
 
McFry said:
In order for current to flow a closed circuit must exist. This is why we have a positive and negative component to any circuit, and why your outlet has 2 poles on it. Afterall you couldnt connect a wire to half of your outlet and expect to light a bulb with it. The heat generated from electrical current is merely a biproduct of the friction from electrons running through it. The energy being converted into heat is simply kinetic energy from the electrons physically bumping into things. The electrons themselves are fully 100% intact and not converted into anything else at all.
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This isn't about the electrons being destroyed. No one is saying that. Your house is grounded. If you get current traveling into your house at 120v, the potential energy of any electron that is used in a device goes from 120v to zero volts because the device and your house is grounded. There is no current "left over"; it does not go anywhere else. Of course the electrons are not destroyed; it's not like the power company created them. The energy of the electrons is consumed going from 120v to 0v. That's the energy that the power company put into them by generating electricity when they took the electrons from zero volts (ground potential) to whatever voltage is sent to the power grid through the power generators. The current is used.
 
McFry said:
In order for current to flow a closed circuit must exist. This is why we have a positive and negative component to any circuit, and why your outlet has 2 poles on it. Afterall you couldnt connect a wire to half of your outlet and expect to light a bulb with it. The heat generated from electrical current is merely a biproduct of the friction from electrons running through it. The energy being converted into heat is simply kinetic energy from the electrons physically bumping into things. The electrons themselves are fully 100% intact and not converted into anything else at all.
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I see you are still relying on primitive Newtonian physics. You treat electrons as if they running water rather than subatomic particles.
 
Seriously, people, can we move away from the electricity analogy and all agree it doesn't really apply here!?
 
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