Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders

• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is implying plurality exaggerating things to begin with in this context? The headline is pretty vague, it doesn’t overtly exaggerate anything. It makes a pretty simple statement without embellishing anything.

  But if we’re going to get into the weeds, we don’t know how many private investigators work at whatever agency they hired, or how many were involved in tracking this person down.

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  • slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It did feel like exaggeration to me, but it could be my bias. May feel differently about it later.

    You are right about the fact that it could be an agency. Maybe I was just being pedantic 😀

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    • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, we’re all being pedantic, aren’t we? honestly, I don’t even know why we wasted the time we have on this lmao. for me it’s probably because I’m working and bored to death.

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      • slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        lol, same here. Except leaning towards super annoyed because of some work related things.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eh, when someone says “private investigator,” I subconsciously assume there could be a group involved, and not one person. If I hire a tax preparer, there are probably multiple people involved (the person preparing the tax docs, the accountants auditing those docs, people auditing their software, etc).

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  • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes. Yes implying plurality for a singular thing is, by definition, exaggerating.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a fair point but it’s not as egregious as most other headlines. I personally give this one a pass since clickbaits are meta in the article space. It shows that GOG has this in their toolbox.

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