Re:SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live
by JoshTriplett on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @12:07PM
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That requires someone to bring a relevant legal case to an appropriately positioned judicial body, which requires a great deal of money, and two sides willing to take it that far.
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I suspect (hope?) that Google has both the cash and the will to force the issue.
Re:SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live
by regularfry on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @12:49PM
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Doesn't that just mean YouTube v. Viacom redux?
Viacom v. YouTube. The one who complains is listed first.
But yes, it does mean wasting a lot of money on lawyers to fight a very bad law which Google could instead be using to build computer-driven cars, improve machine translation, and to create more high-paying jobs.
Instead, we're getting the broken window version where they're forced to create more highly-paid lawyers, instead.
Hopefully it won't have to come full circle back to YouTube.
The Puerto80/RojaDirecta case seems like it has lawyers who know what they're doing(cough unlike a certain other Harvard-based lawyer cough) - I'm hoping they get a good precedent before SOPA even takes effect