Sunday, February 6, 2011

Reverse class-action? It's the latest tactic in the P2P wars

Imagine yourself as a lawyer who would like nothing better than to sue a few thousand people for some of the raunchiest pornography ever inflicted upon the world. You face a problem: when you sue individuals in federal court, where copyright suits are brought, you have to file suit in whichever District Court the defendant resides in. Who has the time and money to bring cases all over the country?

So you try your luck anyway, only to have federal judges smack you down and force the dismissal of most of your cases on "personal jurisdiction" grounds. This stings, and you retreat to your lair.

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