Intimidation versus resistance

‘Powerful perpetrators often act in ways that intimidate their targets. Most individuals are frightened when they are taken to court by a large company. ’ said Brian Martin, Chris Moore, Colin Salter (2010) This is not a exaggerate saying to  just to scare people, people sometimes will face this kind of problem. 


For example, a friend of mine is facing this kind of situation at this time. Make a long story short, before she signed the contract with her agent of her apartment, the agent said she can transfer the contract to somebody else. But now, when she intent to transfer, the agent asked her to pay for her braking the contract and refused her ask of transferring. Their problems are not only this, and in my point of view, I do believe she could for a while and get her money back. However, when she got an email from the agent of charge her in the court, she decided to gave up. I asked her why, she told me that she doesn't want to go to court with a big company, that cost more than 1,000 AUD.


I can't say her thought isn't right, people fear of those who has power and strong. They also don't like to spend too much money and time for things are complicated. At this time, justice becomes a form and saying, at this time, people choose to save troubles rather than protect their benefit. 


A big company itself is an intimidation to small companies and individuals. They can solve some problems and break the resistance without using any methods. However, this is not a common phenomenon in the society, but it do happens sometimes. What we can do, is to protect our own benefit by using right methods and do not fear of something or someone if we believe we are right. 


Linrong Li



Reference List


Martin, B, Moore, C and Salter, C. 2010, ‘Sharing music files: tactics of a challenge to the industry’, First Monday, vol. 15, no. 12, [available:http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2986/2680].