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   Who me?, Jun 20th, 2006 @ 5:17pm

   
   

   I got your "intellectual property task force" righ

   WIth any luck, that "intellectual property task force" report will be loaded onto a laptop and taken to an employee's home without prior knowledge or permission...

    

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   Stu, Jun 20th, 2006 @ 6:48pm

   
   

   private industries get to use the Justice Departme

   It's clear why the DOJ and the rest of the government is at the beck and call of big business - it's money. Political contributions, golf trips on private jets, high paid "thank you" jobs when you leave "public service". There's no secret about it - just read the papers every day.
   
   The difference between corruption in the USA and "third world" countries is that our corruption is at the higher levels of government. In third world countries, it is at all levels of society - paying a bribe just to get a phone installed, for instance. There is nothing stopping it from happening here.
   
   The question is - what can we do about it? Not much, I fear. The best we can do is employ the "once and done" voting technique, which is - if they are in office vote them out.

    

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   Robert Rittmuller, Jun 20th, 2006 @ 7:05pm

   
   

   It's like an earthquake...

   I have always likened the resistance to changing market conditions to the forces that build up in techtonic plates before an earthquake. If the pressure to move (change) is handled frequently and the plates adapt (companies adapt to change) then nobody suffers or gets hurt. However, if the plates (companies) resist the external forces, pressure builds and ultimately results in a period of rapid, and often violent change. Moral of the story: manage change, don't resist it or you might find yourself dealing with an "earthquake".

    

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   haywood, Jun 20th, 2006 @ 7:40pm

   
   

   Re: private industries get to use the Justice Depa

   Government is always at the beck and call of business big and small. If you doubt that imagine the response you would get to the theft of a $5 item, now imagine the response if Walmart reported the same crime. I have a friend, a rancher who had well over $1000 of hay stolen from his field, the response to his reporting it was "what do you want us to do" again, imagine if the same had happened at a retail business. The government exists to protect business from us, not the other way around.

    

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   EverydayBS, Jun 21st, 2006 @ 8:39am

   
   

   It's not just the entertainment industry

   It's no surprise to me that the industry is trying to maintain it's current business model. Historically speaking, most modern businesses resist change. It's not usually in their best interest at the time. Why take a risk when what you are currently doing makes you successful? The bottom line is to make money. Not to be innovative. Big Business stifles innovation on purpose to maintain theor profit margins for their stockholders. Not until a little guy arrives and proves that it can be done a different way, will Corporate change occur. Afterwards. because they have all the money they can either buy out the actual innovator or copy it at little cost to them. All this posturing by the industry is just to keep profits high until another model is proven to them. Then they will embrace it and make it their own. This is an opportunity for us as the little guys to make a killing off of the Big Fish. Come up with something that works, patent it, and offer them just enough of the cut to keep them off your back. Or better yet, use the oppotunity to start your own industry and call the shots yourself. It can be done.

    

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