I have read plenty of posts like Goldman's on lawyer
sites such as Gene
Quinn's site. They sound so erudite and
knowledgeable, but that is only to we
laymen. In fact, they
are "arm chair judges", like the arm chair generals of
old,
or arm chair quarterbacks. They know how to put the right
words together
to make it seem (again, to we laypeople),
that they know what they are talking
about, but it is all
smoke and mirrors.
In fact, AFAIK, that ruling
from the Appeals Court by
Judge Posner can only be overturned by the Supreme
Court, so
in spite of its wording, it is The Law until such a time as
the
Supremes take it upon themselves to do it differently.
Goldman makes a
big deal about calling the ruling
"provisorial", because there is yet to be a
ruling on
"contributory infringement" to follow. However, such a
ruling is
unlikely IMHOP, and even if it goes wrong, it
won't undo the first
ruling.
The thing I wanted to add was that this ruling should
also have
a bearing on the MegaUpload case. We undoubtedly
will be hearing more about
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