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0 pointsMindwipe6y ago0 comments

> Also, publishers should have anticipated this sort of thing and prepared bridges so they didn't have to go on the attack and waste 10 different types of capital.

Publishers repeatedly asked the IA to stop obviously breaking the law before filing the lawsuit, and were ignored.

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themodelplumber6y ago· 1 in thread

If that's all they did, it makes one wonder if the publishing corporate leadership teams understand how laws are made, or rewritten? They completely missed their interface with IA.

IA now has a lot of social leverage thanks to these publishers being about as creative and flexible as a concrete patio.

drawfloat6y ago

Whereas the publishers now have legal leverage. And guess which one actually counts when it comes to getting sued.

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