Infinity Squared wrote:Trouble with that argument is... your generation has to have died first?
Sukunai wrote:Laws are about things like precedent and the letter of the law. But they aren't about thinking. Judges don't really judge, they are just there to manage.
Not true, at least not according to what I've been thought. Those precedents didn't just come out of nowhere. It would have been a judge that through some thought process and evaluation of the facts and conditions, came to a conclusion that this is the right direction and consequently becomes law. So in effect, some case probably needs to be fought out there to serve as an example... trouble is, you versus big money studio, I'd put my money on the company.
That's why I said there was no thinking involved. Judges don't judge, they just are there to apply the cookie cutter. One case becomes no better than a template.
Judges should be required to measure each and every last case on the merits of the case alone. Of course this would mean we would need judges that could examine a case and inform the complainant that their case was flippant, useless and to get out of their court.
I don't see that happening in the US though. It would interfere with pointless lawsuits like the one in Florida where the guy was fined by the local HOA for 1000 bucks all because he had failed to comply with getting his lawn re sodded. That this case was even allowed into a courtroom is incredible, that he actually was fined 1000 bucks all the moreso.
When the law is about nothing deserving your respect, people simply won't respect the laws.
It wouldn't hurt if they actually tried to write copy protection laws that weren't so worthlessly worded and mired in unrealistic expectations that haven't had any connection with the realities of the 21st century.
Anime, one of the few things about the internet that doesn't make me hate the internet.
