* Posts by John Manzione

2 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jul 2007

Customers can sue AT&T, after all

John Manzione

Arbitration is the best way to solve problems

Do any of you honestly know what arbitration is? If you did you might not see this as such a bad thing. (Despite the 9th Circuit being a court full of weird, activist ex-hippies)..

With Arbitration you get to put your side of issue out there to someone who is paid to act as an honest broker. Someone with NO agenda, no need to get elected or stay elected, just an impartial judge/lawyer hired to here this case in its most simple terms. Arbitrators are the most fair minded people on the planet, and I would much rather have my case heard in arbitration than taking a chance in front of jury.

That said, IF your intent is to get rich, abuse the system, bring a "class action in name only" because of the larger settlement number, then being asked to arbitrate your "problem" is something you just don't want. There is no get-rich-quick in arbitration, but there IS a fair minded decision that will more often than not come down on the side of person wronged.

If you go out of your way in your daily life to look for that loop hole that will give you the "opportunity of a lifetime" to sue some corporation so you can get rich with a nice big settlement, then arbitration is your worst nightmare. But, if you are someone that was wronged and your ONLY interest is to be made whole again, arbitration is the best way possible.

Behind the Apple vs Universal breakup

John Manzione

The Reporter

Not a single positive comment posted to this story. Clearly the reporter that posted this article has socialist leanings. Share the wealth! Come on, its only a $1 were talking about here, why not? Rubbish!

I won't repeat what many have already said, except to say that the record companies refuse to treat its artist's with any respect, horde the money that does come in, and cheat the artist at nearly every turn. Every artist is forced to pay for all the expenses incurred in making an album, and then they are cheated when its time to pay for the records that ARE sold. Now you want computer makers to pay the record companies because a computer can play music? Get real my friend, you just want a redistribution of wealth, plain and simple.

Apple is a capitalist company (God bless them!) and Jobs will never give the record companies a share, no matter how small, and Apple is correct.

How about Apple launching their own music label? Want to bet that every artist on the Apple label would be paid a whole lot more than they currently make?

You got it wrong, but then again socialism is wrong, so you can't help it.