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Judge In RIAA Test Case Calls DMCA Unclear
otisaardvark writes "BBC News has an interesting article about how the judge has chided Congress for being inept and unclear. There are repercussions for both sides; primarily that the initial verdict will take far, far longer."
In furhter [sic] cases against the DMCA, this ruling can be used to fight for fair use! Providing the appeals hold up of course...
RTFA (Read the Fsckin' Article!
The judge said he would try to rule quickly, but lawyers on both sides could not estimate when a decision might arrive.
No ruling has been reached yet. The judge doesn't even really seem to be leaning one way or the other.
Slackware forever. Honestly, what else would you trust when it absolutely positively has to be stable, secure, and easy
You seem to be implying that copyrights ensure that the people who did the "work" would get paid. This is cerainly not true. In many cases, the people who did the work are long dead. I'd be delighted to work for free after I'm dead. Some are even copyrighting things which have already been placed into the public domain. The whole thing has become a mockery of the original intent.
How about having everybody acutally write their congressmen regularly. I am a big fan of the idea that corporations rule this country (the USA) because good people don't write to politicians... In other words evil triumphs when....
Not that all corporations are evil. But some ov the most vocal give everyone else a bad name...
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In the spirit of piling on, let's run with this quote: "One of the things we're discovering is that people are not aware that that they are engaging in conduct which is clearly illegal."
You mean like the very recent price-fixing case the RIAA lost to the tune of $143 million? This is their *2nd* price fixing settlement in 2 years, the first one happened in 2000.
Peace.
The judge isn't saying it's pointless. The judge is merely saying that it is poorly worded, and that it will be hard to come to a decision either way in a timely manner.
This doesn't mean that the judge agrees with it or disagrees with it. Just that the judge doesn't like the way it's worded and would find it hard to rule either way while evaluating it the way judges are supposed to evaluate cases.
-Sara
Now if they could just dispense with this habeas corpus nonsense
I take it you haven't heard, The Bush administration claims the power to detain "enemy combatants" indefinitely without trial, an effective suspension of Habeas Corpus. All they have to do is label you a terrorist and you disappear in the night never to be heard from again.
"Our products just aren't engineered for security,"
-Brian Valentine,VP in charge of MS Windows Development