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There's no foreseeable benefit in trying to accelerate the judicial process in matters of free speech or copyright law. These things take time to be debated, legislated, and precedented and that's the way things have worked out for the past 200 years. It took our legal system 80 years to make decisions concerning the First Ammendment rights of Television and Movies so I think it would be a bit short-sighted to expect file-sharing issues to be weighed and determined in such a short amount of time. Expecially considering how much it has changed since the last rulings took place.
There are precedents now and what has been decided is that the application of legal actions is predicated on copyright law without concern for the content of the "unlawfully exchanged good".
Determinations and opinions concerning these issues will develop as new court cases are presented and decided upon. What I can see as a problem in the process now is that too few people are aware of what their rights are and what they can or cannot be held liable for. Too many citations are being issued for eroneous charges and too many cases are being settled out of court (which in turn prevents precedents from being made).
I don't see the point in trying to hurry something that will accomplish less if rushed. And for the record: we do not live in a Democracy.
There are precedents now and what has been decided is that the application of legal actions is predicated on copyright law without concern for the content of the "unlawfully exchanged good".
Determinations and opinions concerning these issues will develop as new court cases are presented and decided upon. What I can see as a problem in the process now is that too few people are aware of what their rights are and what they can or cannot be held liable for. Too many citations are being issued for eroneous charges and too many cases are being settled out of court (which in turn prevents precedents from being made).
I don't see the point in trying to hurry something that will accomplish less if rushed. And for the record: we do not live in a Democracy.