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Leaked Emails Reveal MPAA Plans to Pay Elected Officials to Attack Google
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoThis is dynamite stuff. Is the MPAA outright bribing state Attorney's General? How many more revelations to come from the Sony hack?
- waterlesscloud 12y agoIt doesn't look like bribery, no. It looks like paying a big law firm to provide legal input to the State AG in a case against Google. I'm no attorney and I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was very common thing. Which doesn't mean it's not shady. It definitely doesn't look like cash money being given to state officials. It might be shady, but it's not bribery.
- killerpopiller 12y agoyeah, americans and their plutocracy, many seem to got used to it. Why would a GA "need" input from bought law firms?
- waterlesscloud 12y agoThe other side of this is Google, not exactly some pauper in the street. I imagine they'll have a couple of decently paid lawyers working on their side of it. Would it be better if all Google's money had its way?
- spacefight 12y agoHow on earth is a private company allowed to "provide legal input" toan AG?
- hga 12y agoAs I recall that was the model for the monster anti-tobacco lawsuits. The general principle is well established, going back to Roman law, then English common law in the 9th Century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae