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by Anonymous User on Sun Mar 12, 2006 at 09:31:34 AM PDT

"Do what we want (usually means "give us your money") or we'll hurt you."

Schoolyard bullies, organized crime, and governments have been doing this more or less forever. Some companies, or at least some individuals within them, apparently envious of this, adopt a similar viewpoint. Permission? We don't need your steenkin' permission! Pay up or we'll hurt you!

Enduring a smaller pain to avoid a larger one is certainly not illogical; if the person in this case believes the aggravation of taking legal action, time involved, etc. is more trouble (in his terms) than paying the damned bill, he pays it.

The illogical part is the attitude shown by the company, but which is so thorughly embedded in our culture that it's not going away anytime soon. I don't see Ed running out of topics to write about, unfortunately.

All that said, I hope he takes them to court and kicks their butt!

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