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All this makes me sick. Building a business out of sueing people with the explicit goal of settling out of court is clearly subverting the legal system for the

All this makes me sick. Building a business out of sueing people with the explicit goal of settling out of court is clearly subverting the legal system for the courts are only used for extortion but not for making just decisions. This is not a legal battle any more. This is blackmail.

muuh-gnu 15y ago
It is a legal battle as long as the legal system allows it, intentionally or unintentionally. The fact is, the blackmailers only have a case at all because the law criminalizes private file sharing. Instead of trying to work out how to protect illegal filesharers from being identified and blackmailed with out of scale "damage" threats, we should rather talk about fixing the overreaching copyright, which is imho the root of all those problems.