The target companies dutifully add a few words to the proxy and hand the lawyers enough money to piss off, which they gladly do since actually litigating a case involves work and some legal talent.

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Never one to miss a dramatic moment, or a chance to piss off high-ranking Western statesmen, Vladimir Putin jumped right into the fray by publicly offering Depardieu Russian citizenship and the enticing 13% flat tax that comes with it.

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So Bioware seem to have managed to piss off their customers, the retailers and probably more than a few games reviewers who have been made to look like idiots for defending an ending they never saw, all at the same time.

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There's all kinds of corporate-lawyer idiocy at play here: MobileRead was just linking out to another site hosting the script, which can't actually be used to break Kindle DRM, and the only people using it are the people who want to buy more books -- not exactly the sort of customers you'd want to piss off.

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We actually sort of agree with this one people should be allowed to do what they want with the DVDs they buy (just like it's perfectly legal for someone to black out all the naughty parts of books) but hopefully just to piss off Congress someone'll figure out a way to add a little extra sex, violence, and profanity to movies.

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Employees generally seek to curry favor with their employers, not piss them off.

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