Re: [dvd-discuss] Civil Disobedience and the DMCA

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

Careful....it's very reluctant to put 10,000 people behind bars at once or 
provide trials for each of them. Take a look at the Los Angeles Court 
system after the LA riots. They had thousands of people that they had to 
deal with and it overwhelmed them to the point that the California 
legislature had to provide a temporary emergency extension of the times 
for arraignment




Tom <tom@lemuria.org>
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:01:27AM -0700, Larry Blunk wrote:
>    In the case of civil infractions of the DMCA, the plaintiffs
> are able to pick and choose who they go after.   Does the government 
have
> such leeway in the case of criminal infractions?  Would their be any 
legal
> precendents set if the government simply chose to ignore such actions?

but where do you find the 10,000 people willing to take the risk of 5
years in the slammer? we know the USSA isn't afraid to put significant 
amounts of its population behind bars.


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