[Dixielandjazz] Shutting Down The Internet

[Robert S. Ringwald]

The following is from a friend.  Unfortunately I am not at liberty to say 
who he is or his qualifications.

however, he knows of what he speaks.

(snip)
First, "shakedown" tactics such as threatening defenseless people with a 
lawsuit
unless they they pay up has been held in California to be a violation of the 
rules
of professional conduct and would get any lawyer who engages in such 
disbarred.

The attorneys who used similar tactics to "enforce" the unfair business 
practices
act in California were disbarred for unprofessional conduct.

Second, I doubt that any court would effectively shut down the internet. 
The existence
of the internet does impose problems, since law that was written to cover 
newspapers
and magazines is now being asked to regulate something that the 
drafftspersons never
thought of.  In any matter involving the dissemination of information, the 
First
Amendment is usually involved.  While such "speech" may be regulation, any 
remedy
that is imposed in virtually any situation would have to be narrowly drawn 
so that
legal  communications do not get caught up in the legal web.  Persons who 
distribute
copyrighted material by any method without obtaining the consent of the 
copyright
owner may find themselves being sued by the  copywright owner whether or not 
any
profit was made from such distribution.
-(end-snip)


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