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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. FP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    w00t

    Chem IS Try!

  2. Oooooh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Could it be?

  3. Outrage! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The DoJ has done it again. What were they thinking, this guy is a _criminal_. Hasn't anyone heard of the amount of porno this guy has on his computer? It's unreal. I think he cracked some SDMI porno. Now there's some intellectual property worth protecting, if only they'd listen to my ideas. Motherless fucks.

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