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DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case

Posted by michael on from the talk-is-cheap dept.

phalse phace writes: "The EFF is reporting that the Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the pending Felten v. RIAA case because it's "not ripe" and it fails to address serious First Amendment problems. (Yeah, like threatening to sue someone for presenting their research on digital music access-control technologies isn't a serious First Amendment problem.) The preliminary statement of the DoJ's memorandum states: "Plaintiffs have not been prosecuted under the DMCA, nor have they been threatened with such prosecution...""

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  1. Re:What counts as a threat? by geodude · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    remember we are talking about lawyers, for whom semantics trump logic and common sense.

  2. John Ashcroft by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Ashcroft distorted the record of Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White and misled his Senate colleagues in order to sabotage White's nomination to a federal district court

    He has opposed legislation designed to end workplace discrimination (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) and to protect vulnerable groups of Americans against hate crimes (the Hate Crimes Prevention Act). He voted to weaken a federal law that helps protect minority communities against "redlining" by banks and other financial institutions.

    He voted to roll back clean water protections and introduced legislation to undercut efforts to limit emissions of man-made greenhouse gases.

    He has praised the far right magazine Southern Partisan, a neo-Confederate publication that promotes the view, among others, that slavery was beneficial to the slaves.

    In just six years in the Senate he introduced or sponsored no fewer than seven different attempted amendments to the Constitution. In 1996 he proposed a radical amendment that would have made it much easier to amend the Constitution, opening the way for disastrous political and ideological mischief.

    He voted to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts

    Can anyone explain why this guy gets to be attourney general ?

    even more

    "Only In America" gets a whole new meaning

    Getting arrested when you did nothing wrong ? Jep

    Getting executed when you did nothing wrong ? jep

    Rich kids getting of cheap ? duh