[Infowarrior] - Clogging our courts? A warped perspective on things

[Richard Forno]

I should add that I'm not endorsing luxuries for inmates at Gitmo, mind you
-- just making a semantical observation here.

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On 9/29/06 9:29 AM, "Richard Forno" <rforno at infowarrior.org> wrote:

> 
> Interesting difference of what "clogging our courts" means these days:
> 
> ``Detainees from Guantanamo have clogged our courts with more than 420
> lawsuits challenging everything from their access to the Internet to the
> quality of their recreation facilities," her office said in a statement that
> called the lawsuits ``an abuse of our court system."
> 
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/09/28/legal_resid
> ents_rights_curbed_in_detainee_bill?mode=PF)
> 
> ..but it's obviously okay to "clog the courts" with lawsuits over music and
> movie downloading, and this isn't "abusing" our court system:
> 
> "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that the major
> Hollywood motion picture studios would be filing hundreds of lawsuits
> against individuals using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software to access
> movies online. In so doing, Hollywood follows in the footsteps of the music
> industry, which has filed more than 6,000 lawsuits against file sharers
> since September 2003."
> http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MPAA_v_ThePeople/
> 
> Interesting.
> 
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> 
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