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by burgerbrain 5299 days ago
Why should we care about the difference between negligence and malice? Should we respond differently? I would not be comfortable with that.

Besides, let's not forget Grey's Law... (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Greys_Law)
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pyre 5299 days ago
From http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Greys_Law :

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My point is not to get carried away by making claims like this:

  > “Dirty tricks in an effort to stop our massively 
  > successful viral campaign.”
If these claims turn out to be false, then you just end up looking stupid, even if UMG is still on the wrong side of the law.
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burgerbrain 5299 days ago
HN seems to be eating an apostrophe between the y and s in that link.

  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Grey's_Law
Regardless, nobody reasonable is going to fault anybody for assuming malice from class acts like the MPAA. And if you apply Grey's Law, then they deserve the criticism regardless.
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