There needs to be a discussion about how China is going to compensate the world for covid19. Given the thousands of lives lost and billions of lives disrupted, it seems unfair and unwise to let the source of the loss escape shouldering the cost.
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Somebody is trying to open Pandora's Box here. Who is to decide what deserves compensation and who is going to enforce it? List of various grievances countries have against each other must be enormous.
There needs to be a discussion about how China is going to compensate the world for covid19. Given the thousands of lives lost and billions of lives disrupted, it seems unfair and unwise to let the source of the loss escape shouldering the cost.
Legally, wether you’re an employee or independent contractor matters for everything from the Americans With Disabilities Act through Workers Compensation, not to mention, taxes.
Wether the company offers benefits to hourly employees is largely an internal decision.
They're still going to get paid a hell of a lot of money if this drug works. It's not just going to be taken from them without any kind of compensation at all from the US Government and others.
That's getting close to false dichotomy: rely on patents or get no research. Maybe a different financial model is required these days. Not everything needs to reach late stage capitalism.
A few of the better anti-cheat products have had detection vectors for these for a while now, from simple things like detecting the driver to outright probing the device.
Well I wouldn't be opposed to setting up the server and corporation in any country that I had to to get it done.
I am based out of Canada and we have extremely good file sharing law precedent set many years ago by the RIAA trying to sue a Canadian for sharing movies online.
The judge said that you are allowed to share movies with friends, and nobody can determine how many friends any one individual has so sharing with thousands of millions through torrent is OK too essentially.
Also torrent tracker websites are not file sharers.
Thepiratebay and 1337x don't actually host any files.
the question of facilitation of piracy can be an issue
it doesnt have to stick if you get enough copyright trolls on you your wallet will get thin as you handle multiple court cases regardless of outcome
I recall something about canada considering a publicly broadcasted TV show to be in the public domain so that things like threes company or happy days are fair game in canada... is that true?
And if you ever want to set foot in US soil.
I guess the piratebay guys would getva warm welcome from law enforcement if they tried to travel to the states.
