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Originally Posted by sabredog
When an industry frontpiece starts demanding 75 trillion dollars in damages, then you know there is urgent need to stop such claims even making it to court.
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Where would you settle them, then? Wrist-smack in the kitchen? These cases do need to be taken to court, so a fair and equitable decision and appropriate penalty can be set.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
I guess I'm not following, at least from what was in the O.P.
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The point of the article isn't really that the kid got caught file-sharing... it's that the decision was so extreme as to "threaten innovation," in the eyes of the EFF and lawyers, so they want the courts to set precedents for appropriate decisions and penalties.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
Oh, you mean the giggly guy...
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Yeah. Him.