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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > bin Laden, or the media, are welcome to buy pictures of this resolution
> > elsewhere, if they can obtain them. Nothing is stopping them, it's a free
> > market with no legal barriers to entry.
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> Maybe we'll even sell them to him :) Of course the price may be
> non-monetary! And of course, no guarantees on picture quality, either :)
Here's a hypothetical: what if some company sells bin Laden et al bogus
but real-seeming photos giving false information? What if, afterward, bin
Laden would seek damages from the company for its deceptive product?
Dave!
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| (...) The result of course would be that I wouldn't want the judge's job, nor any part in the jury :) Honestly, I think it would depend on the company's honest intent, the ability to prove that intent, the measurment of the damages resulting to bin (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) He'd have a case if the contract he signed guaranteed accuracy. But of course I suspect whatever court he tried to sue in would soon be host to a *host* of suits against HIM. Friedman tangentially touches on this in Machinery of Freedom, if (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Maybe we'll even sell them to him :) Of course the price may be non-monetary! And of course, no guarantees on picture quality, either :) DaveE (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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