I just discovered this person on YouTube, member name is LegalEagle (real first name is Devin) who is a real life lawyer, and has been doing videos discussing the accuracies (or mistakes) TV shows or movies make when featuring real legal matters.
He already has many videos up, but this video
is a good starting point, where he discusses the infamous series finale to Seinfeld.
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Edited by kory on Sep 22nd 2024 at 9:15:19 AM
The branding claim from the IOC is completely separate from the vendor lawsuits.
As far as I know, there is no law against overestimating the demand for your product. This isn't a criminal case. But if you sign a contract that contains performance clauses in the form of a certain amount of purchased goods and services, the party you signed with may be able to claim civil damages if you breach it.
Simplified, Logan Paul said, "I'm going to sell $100 million worth of product, so I need $50 million worth of ingredients." Then he only sold $50 million of product, but he's still on the hook for the contracted purchase of ingredients.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I imagine that inflated demand is only something you can face penalty over if you use the artificially inflated demand to misrepresent as part of a fraud.
A pump and dump scheme is a form of artificially inflated demand being used for fraud, if you misrepresent temporary demand as enduring demand to get money out of an investor/sponsor that would also be fraud.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe US tends not to care too much about poisoning its citizens. It used to be much worse. You should read The Jungle sometime.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesWell, kind of. My understanding is that the proto-energy drink is american, which was developed further in Japan during US occupation into "nutritional supplements" (which had really high stimulant content too), which led to what we now call energy drinks, which are descended from those Japanese "nutritional supplements" being classified as "nutritional supplements" in the US well into the 21st century. (This is no longer the case as far as I'm aware) which made them subject to different regulations for much of that time, and it's only now becoming apparent relatively recently just how much caffeine is in them because when they were reclassified as a food their reporting requirements changed.
Nutritional Supplements are a regulatory mess across much of the world, basically, and energy drinks being like they are seems to be largely a consequence of that plus their popularity in the US, rather than any problem unique to the US.
I guess the Michigan case set a precedent and law enforcement are willing to jump on it faster now. Hopefully this will send a message to parents that buying a gun to a kid is a bad idea, but I don't know how well it will work, because no one thinks their kid is going to be a mass shooter. Both this kid and the one in Michigan were already investigated for making threats before the incident, and their parents didn't see a need to remove their guns.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure TVT is trying to be as nonpolitical as it can so saying literally anything about the video's subject isn't allowed. But talking about the video itself can be fair game.
For example: I can say that I really don't like how Devin transitions to his ad read. The funny thing is that I think he set himself up really well, he's pushing Incogni and he sets himself up by talking about Pence and going "gee, what happened to that guy?" I like the premise of the setup but goddamn the transitions never land for me.
Also, I really do wonder how many episodes I've half watched because in the middle he transitions to an Eagle Team ad and I turn off the video thinking it's over. It was definitely a few before I realized he was doing those in the middle of the episodes, not at the end.
Edited by Larkmarn on Sep 6th 2024 at 1:43:30 PM
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Minor correction, it's American politics that's banned. If Devin made a video about, I dunno, the legal ramifications of Macron banning ducks, we'd be allowed to talk about it.

Yeah, I miss the analysis videos too. The channel has become much more serious lately.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest times