DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case

Posted by michael on Thursday October 11, 2001 @07:54PM 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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Six String Samurai by abe+ferlman · 2001-10-12 00:13 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Nice tuxedo.
Nice tuxedo to die in!

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DOJ by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-12 00:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So basically the DOJ is saying they haven't broken the law so they don't have a case? They don't want the courts to listen to the case because the people appealing it haven't been labeled as criminals!?

Ok.. that sounds reasonable.:(
Re:The DMCA is a good read... by BumbaCLot · 2001-10-12 01:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No, I think you really are ANAL