Registered on FatWallet one week ago and is now writing pro-DMCA posts? Definitely a troll.

coreynyc said:

<< Just a thought....

Worst Buy, Circuit Town, Office Min, GMart, Toys Are We, Farget, Comp America, Wal Fart, Homo Depot, Cold Gravy, The Crap, Lola Falana Republic, J. Blew, (John Wayne) Gacy's, Shroomingdale's, etc.

I am completely serious, BTW. >>

Even if you are completely serious, i found that completely hilarious.

Anyways...I just sent emails to all 4 stating that I won't be spending any money in their stores this holiday season and will be buying online from other retailers. Not that it'll do anything, and they'll probably just delete the emails, but what the hey, its worth trying.

Posting WalMart sales prices increase in-store sales, which helps guarantee you have a job! It has been REPEATEDLY shown by those same marketing research results you quote, that "loss-leader sales" improve in-store sales and profits. Otherwise, what corporate entity in their right mind, would continue any marketing practice that reduces profit? Take a basic course in economy before you come here whining about your work-ethic ("..., makes my job harder,... "! If you truly believe that "sale prices" impacts your salary, then you should be complaining to WalMart Corporate. If anything, WalMart's "Slashing Prices" program has resulted in their declining revenue. Wall Street tends to react more harshly to movements in revenue (eg. declining revenues), than it does to movements in after-tax profits. Additionally, WalMart has begun sliding-down the same failed road that KMart has, you can only go so cheap, before what you're buying becomes cheap (ie. poor quality, high failure rates, poor performance) because you only buy junk once. I'm tired of having to return an item three and four times, only to finally return an item for refund because the cheap-crap keeps breaking!

Susanna said:

<< SERVES YOU RIGHT

[deleted trivial stupidity]. This is an INFORMATION ECONOMY and you are POISONING THE INFORMATION.

Did you think The Law wouldn't catch up with you? The Digital Millenium Copyright Act is a new law designed to catch a new kind of thief, and you people just hit it like a brick wall. Whine all you want; as a Wal-Mart klerck, I personally wish the DMCA would give the FBI first-strike capability to put you people in jail. Posting Wal-Mart sale prices early causes masses of people to descend on my store out of the blue, makes my job harder, and causes Wal-Marts profit margin to shrink, which impacts my salary. I have children to feed.

I have no tolerance for you people at all. >>

Susanna said:

<< SERVES YOU RIGHT
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Posting Wal-Mart sale prices early causes masses of people to descend on my store out of the blue, makes my job harder, and causes Wal-Marts profit margin to shrink, which impacts my salary. I have children to feed.

I have no tolerance for you people at all. >>

Having masses of people shop at "your" store is bad? Isn't that the function of the store, to sell items to customers. One would think that having masses of customers, eagerly wanting to purchase an item, would be good for business. Am I missing something? I'm sure Wal-Mart or any other large chain store isn't losing out on money from this small niche of the purchasing public. I don't know many people who even know what a fatwallet is.

<< Target is the biggest POS store there is. First they say they won't give you full refunds even if you have a receipt. Then they stop pricematching. Now they do this. Just because Target has lost customers due to their crap stores, crap products and crap ideas. >>

Dude, Target is almost the easiest place I've ever gotten a refund. It took about 5 seconds for my refund there. Lowe's is the only place better. Lowe's will even take back stuff you bought somewhere else!

Why I feel this does not qualify under the DMCA:

Firstly, if the ads themselves were scanned and downloaded, than I think they would have a case.

However, people seeing an ad and then merely relaying that information to others via any means is not illegal, nor does the DMCA really go against one's ability to do that. (No I am not an expert on the intricacies of it, though I have read about it).

I mean where do you draw the line from the following

OBVIOUS DMCA "VIOLATION" (or contestable)
^
|(1) Scanning the ad and redistributing it
| (2) Stating word for word what's in the ad
| (3) Summarizing the ad
| (4) Stating to someone else that you think Store X is going to have product Y for price Z
| (5) Stating an opinion that "I think Store X might have product Y for around price Z"

JUST YOUR AVERAGE TALKING between people


I mean, personally I think you can't stop someone for stating word for word what's in an ad. That's just not allowing someone to have freedom of speech. Cuz I'll go publish a book that will come out in 2099 and put every common sentence ever used and then claim everyone is violating the DMCA when they say it online.

jcrash said:

<< Dude, Target is almost the easiest place I've ever gotten a refund. It took about 5 seconds for my refund there. Lowe's is the only place better. Lowe's will even take back stuff you bought somewhere else! >>

I think that honor belongs to Costco.

they own the copyrights on numbers, digits and the $ dollar sign, but combing the three elements they make unique prices!!

what cracks me up is this quote:


<< This is an INFORMATION ECONOMY >>

You are correct, Thanks. Now please re-think your argument.