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It 's hard to imagine that every label will not have a similar download-only imprint at some point soon . So the analysis that you're seeing from our staff is transparent with all these charts that we're bringing here . The tire and vehicle work together in determining acceleration , braking , cornering , comfort and , most important , safety and do it through four very small contact patches with the road . These leads are valuable and go a long way towards helping fight what privacy author and security expert Dennis Bailey calls the " power of one . I think as we go through this hearing there is a nuance here between safety and claims reporting and what this claims reporting means versus actual safety . Second , you're replacing some of these recalled tires with tires manufactured by other companies , other than Firestone , and you have heard some of the conversations we have had regarding this . I think you have every right to do that ; and frankly , I again want to applaud you for making a very expensive decision to do that , because you believe it 's in the interest of your consumers ' safety . Entertainment lawyer Jay Flemma , who 's consulting with companies who've received the Altnet patent letter , told me , " I believe they [ Altnet ] are grossly overreaching in attempting to turn the world of IP into the wild , wild west and effectively mug these companies by trying to make them pay for something ... These data , together with our predictive models , give us confidence that the replacement tires will meet the needs of our customers . This is the only real-world comparison that is truly apples to apples , and the results are very clear . " They are asking courts for every case , for every technology , to ask , ' Could the engineers have designed it differently , in a way that the copyright owners would like more ? I asked that question based on my own experience , because I had tires that were n't recalled during the first recall , and lots of my constituents would walk out , look at my tires and say , why are you driving on those tires , you should get those replaced ; and I would explain to them that they were n't a part of the initial recall . Every test that we did went through data , statistical analysis , in terms of its significance ; and we will share that data with you . While the police videos were rolling , so were those of passengers with video capabilities on cell phones . " The music industry is trying to use the law to prop up an outdated business model , " he added . When you put those two very uncertain situations together we seem to get a very tenuous outcome . I know there was a problem in the Firestone - - I think it was the Decatur , Illinois plant - - and there was a recall of those tires , and we assumed it was rectified and the American consumers were safe again . The Supreme Court news comes a day after an attorney for Alabama 's pension system announced a settlement in the fund 's suit against Bear Stearns Cos. " The market is changing and channel partners need to pay attention to what 's happening in the software industry in the area of intellectual property management , " Stephen Graham , group vice president , IDC , said in Microsoft 's press release . Thank you very much , Mr. Chairman , for the hearing and for the chance to take part in this way . The chiefs of Ford and tire maker Bridgestone / Firestone Inc. are expected to be confronted with those findings , the work of committee investigators , when they testify before two Energy and Commerce subcommittees this morning in Washington , D.C. Ford maintains that they had to act because the claims trends suggested increasing tire problems and a potential increasing risk to consumer safety . This is not by chance . The Explorer , like all its peers and every vehicle made , has handling characteristics which are optimized for safety with four treaded tires .