RIAA ordered to justify suing groups of people in one lawsuit
06-12-2010, 12:48 AM (This post was last modified: 02-09-2019, 06:58 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
06-12-2010, 12:48 AM (This post was last modified: 02-09-2019, 06:58 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
Ars Technica: Judge may dismiss 4,576 of 4,577 P2P defendants from lawsuit
And she's right to do so, IMHO. The only reason the RIAA has for lumping all those lawsuits together is to save money. The civil court system does not exist to save money; it exists to arrive at equitable decisions, and putting thousands of people together in one case is not equitable to them.
(Note that this does not dismiss the lawsuit against those thousands of people - it just dismisses all but one of the defendants from this particular lawsuit.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
And she's right to do so, IMHO. The only reason the RIAA has for lumping all those lawsuits together is to save money. The civil court system does not exist to save money; it exists to arrive at equitable decisions, and putting thousands of people together in one case is not equitable to them.
(Note that this does not dismiss the lawsuit against those thousands of people - it just dismisses all but one of the defendants from this particular lawsuit.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012