The Daily Princetonian reports that Threat of lawsuit passes for student, so John Halderman is off the hook. This is thus another case in which a sabre-rattling firm backed down in the face of an outcry. It is still an outrage, however, that these threats can be made even semi-credibly. Sooner or later there will be a case of outrage fatige, or a firm with no common sense at all, and we will have a lawsuit. It will probably lose, but do great damage to the defendant's bank balance and peace of mind in the process.
The DMCA needs to be fixed. Sounds like a job for Howard Dean's new Net Advisory Net?
IP lawyers are getting bad!! What a fiasco. The ACLU / EFF would have loved this one I imagine.
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