[solaris]

It’s been a bad week for the RIAA. First their headline campaign victory over Jammie Thomas was thrown out, and then the government said it ’strongly opposes’ a bill lobbied for by the entertainment industries.

It was a midweek battle that left the RIAA’s campaign against file-sharers reeling on the ropes. Until now, the RIAA’s approach was to throw money at attorneys, who would then take on random targets, unless money and promises were given - ‘legal mugging’ as it were.

It must have felt like an attack from behind when the RIAA heard that they lost its only major court victory, with a mistrial being declared in Capitol V Thomas. Making things worse, the Department of Justice, viewed by some to be the bully’s trusted lieutenant, turned on the content industries by soundly criticizing a bill aiming to increase copyright and patent enforcement powers.

Full story here: RIAA’s Week of Hell | TorrentFreak

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by solaris

Full story here: RIAA’s Week of Hell | TorrentFreak

I believe that happiness at the sorrow of others is called schedenfraude - something I don't experience very often

[skyforger]

a breaking one, thanks Solaris, for letting us know!

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by solaris

Full story here: RIAA’s Week of Hell | TorrentFreak

Bad karma, has finally come back to them..........

[koenfucius]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

I believe that happiness at the sorrow of others is called schedenfraude - something I don't experience very often

Close, but no cigar! It's schadenfreude, coined, I think, by German philosopher Schopenhauer - isn't it strange that there is no English term for it (unless you count the even more obscure epicaricacy).

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by koenfucius

Close, but no cigar! It's schadenfreude, coined, I think, by German philosopher Schopenhauer - isn't it strange that there is no English term for it (unless you count the even more obscure epicaricacy).

Not Schopenhauer. Not even close

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by koenfucius

Close, but no cigar! It's schadenfreude

I wonder why Solaris didn't point this out!

Surely, it's not the grammar nazi side of Dreamy hiding away?

I guess it must be the fact that such a good person would have no knowledge of such an unpleasant word. Yeah, that must be it!

[koenfucius]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

Not Schopenhauer. Not even close

At the risk of invoking the wrath of the wibble police: who do you think coined the term?

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by koenfucius

At the risk of invoking the wrath of the wibble police: who do you think coined the term?

Never mind, that was fairly close. He didn't coin the term, but he is know to have used it :-

Schadenfreude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno defined schadenfreude as “largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate.”[2]

German: Neid zu fühlen ist menschlich, Schadenfreude zu genießen teuflisch: "To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is devilish." (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Very good

[henry66]

the word 'schadenfreude' is a pretty standard german word, nobody ever coined it as such. the verses and sayings
around it though might have been said by some more or less important people, and in connection with what they
thought of 'schadenfreude', been coined.

and that, similar to the even more common 'kindergarten' and 'gemuetlichkeit', then made it into the english language.

greets - henry