On 02/10/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/2/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> But you can't legislate against
> misunderstanding or malice. What effective penalty can we apply? We
> can't even stop people editing if they really want to.
You are correct that there are some bad people that we
can't stop.
But everyone that causes us problems isn't a judgement proof 14 year
old kid jumping coffee shops...
The reality is that a nontrivial number of our problem causers are
corporations which don't have the sort of immunity which makes the TOS
irrelevant.
It would be really nice that on the third time some foolish
advertising company calls us up threatening to sue because we deleted
their drivel that we can turn around and say "No, we're going to sue
you..." :)
... hmm.
Hmm. I'm liking this idea.
...
(The liking I'm getting for it is that it's fatally clever. That's a
bad sign. But hmmm.)
- d.