Business gets its way
It’s something that always bothers me: why are cars manufactured to go faster than the highest speed limits? Why am I even thinking about this, especially when it’s Christmas? Well, I was reading an old copy of PC Pro magazine and a journalist also made a similar remark about cars going fast in reference to the music industry’s successful hounding of p2p networks.
Sony won its landmark case decades ago that deferred responsibility from itself should anyone use video recorders for illegal activities. P2p networks ought to benefit from the same precedent, right? Well, no. Because they don’t have the same expensive lawyers to defend their interestes.
So, why hasn’t anyone sued a car manufacturer yet for deliberately making cars travel faster than the speed limit? Speeding can cause real harm to people, not just to the bottom-line.
January 18th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Personally, roo, I like speeding. The long stretches of very flat and very straight and long Texas highways makes for great NASCAR training. I like to speed along the shoulder not much wider than your own car’s wheel base, with broken beer bottles, loose gravel, and putrid smelling armadillo corpses in the way. Then, when my turbo kicks in, hearing that “wrrrRRRR!” sound, oh baby, I smash that beyotch to the floor and kick it up around 200kmh or so. I swear I once saw the grim reaper hovering over my car as I dodged and weaved around those 18 wheelers as he cackled to me, “yehhh heh heh heh heh! faster! faster! yehhh heh heh heh!”
In all seriousness, I don’t know why either. But to be perfectly honest, brother, you tell me why I keep getting 3 inch long hairs shooting sideways off my ears and I’ll try and figure out an answer to YOUR question. It’s just one of life’s unanswered mysteries I suppose…
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January 18th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Yo’ crazy, boy!
January 28th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
Fast cars are made to go fast with race tracks in mind. Also don’t forget that not all countries impose a speed limit on all roads. German Autobahns and the Isle of Man spring to mind.
Many people like to race cars as a hobby, taking Gran Tourismoo to the real world, because well, they can afford it.
Also, since the Sony case, laws have changed/been added since. It is generally implied that P2P is used for illegal purposes.
It isn’t right, but that involves a much more radical realignment of the way the whole copyright/patent/royalties laws work.