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>Sony got everything they asked for before the case was settled Not much happened before the settlement, the parties settled very quickly after Hotz's motion t
by FDSGSG 7y ago
>Sony got everything they asked for before the case was settled
Not much happened before the settlement, the parties settled very quickly after Hotz's motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction failed. The TRO sucked, but wasn't particularly unreasonable.
>incredibly unfair things (like the list of people who had legally downloaded the legally-created software of Hotz).
Jurisdictional discovery is not incredibly unfair, and was only a natural consequence of Hotz's motion to dismiss for
lack of personal jurisdiction.
>The reason it was settled out of court was seemingly just so Hotz could avoid a felony.
The fuck? This was a civil case.
- kick 7y agoThe fuck? This was a civil case. Computer fraud is a felony, and around that time the DoJ was getting very trigger-happy in turning civil cases criminal. Google the CFAA, which they were trying to pin Hotz under.
- FDSGSG 7y ago> DoJ was getting very trigger-happy in turning civil cases criminal Do you happen to have a single example of this?
- kick 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
- FDSGSG 7y agoI don't think there was ever a civil suit filed against Swartz. As far as I remember and according to the timeline on wikipedia this seems to have been a criminal case from the very beginning. And in any case I don't think this is a great example of the DOJ being trigger-happy, what Swartz did was obviously criminal and they were still willing to let him off with only a slap on the wrist.