Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:12:49PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Michael Marsh wrote:
> > A 30 day moratorium on re-sale doesn't hurt the store that much, the
> > seller still gets paid, and if the discs were stolen, the victim has
> > some chance of recovery. That does not, of course, justify incredibly
> > invasive personal data collection.
>
> I'd suggest that the numbers of all the paper money that even Americans
> sometimes carry around gets registered. There is an embargo period on
> that, too, in order to make sure that the money wasn't stolen somewhere.
Apparently, according to the book: "Steal the Network", any single
purchase over $4999.00 triggers all sorts of alarm bells.
--
Chris.
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