“Or perhaps the writing for the show deviating from the novels put the audience off.”
That’s what did it for me. I can accept a certain amount of artistic license. But what they did made the characters nearly unrecognizable. If they wanted to write their own stories, they should have created their own characters to go with them.
They tried various taxes on blank media (present in some countries but not the US IIRC) and the RIAA did try having new taxes on iPods and the like because piracy existed – but you’d still pay even if you never pirated or you used the media for something other than music (or, if you used it to record your own music!)
I deal with classified documents, and while I've seen something classified once to keep it out of the hands of the rival project manager across the hall, most of the over-classification I see is due to the lopsided incentives at play.
At every classification refresher training, we get bombarded with dire warnings about what will happen if we inadvertently let slip something that should have been classified at a higher level. Of course, there's also a nod given to the idea that over-classification is also bad. However, I don't think I've ever heard a story about someone being punished for over-classifying something. Spillage, on the other hand, can cost someone their job or land them in prison.
It's a bit like the DMCA in a way, guessing wrong has a severe penalty, but only in one direction. Because of this, most people I know tend to err on the side of caution and sometimes mark things at a higher classification level than maybe they should be. Because making the other mistake is a lot more costly.
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The show went off the rails
Perverse incentives and uneven risk
I deal with classified documents, and while I've seen something classified once to keep it out of the hands of the rival project manager across the hall, most of the over-classification I see is due to the lopsided incentives at play. At every classification refresher training, we get bombarded with dire warnings about what will happen if we inadvertently let slip something that should have been classified at a higher level. Of course, there's also a nod given to the idea that over-classification is also bad. However, I don't think I've ever heard a story about someone being punished for over-classifying something. Spillage, on the other hand, can cost someone their job or land them in prison. It's a bit like the DMCA in a way, guessing wrong has a severe penalty, but only in one direction. Because of this, most people I know tend to err on the side of caution and sometimes mark things at a higher classification level than maybe they should be. Because making the other mistake is a lot more costly.