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A Legal Theory with Teeth, and Pizzaz

Somebody needs to light a fire under Congress about the entertainment industry's abuse of takedown notices under the Copyright act. The current strategy -- which is to hold lawyers to a good faith belief standard, while also permitting them to collect fees for asserting meritless claims -- is as ridiculous dismissing any tort claim where the defendant asserts that she was "careful." Law is about power and the good faith of the powerful has never been an effective check.

That's why I love the spirit of the folks at PirateBay.com:

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).