[mythtv-users] A prediction is coming true - MORE confirming evidence

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:53:58AM +0200, F Peeters (MythTV) wrote:
> On Fri, July 20, 2007 00:34, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:34:22PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> >> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 15:07 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> >> >> Unless you could *prove* bad faith on the part of the RIAA (extremely
> >> >> difficult to do), or that the defendants settled under duress,
> >> >
> >> > If "settle now or we will sue you into bankruptcy and tie up your
> >> every
> >> > free minute from now until you die" isn't duress I don't know what is.
> >> > Guess that's why IANAL.
> >>
> >> Yours and my definition of "duress" and the court's, are likely at
> >> considerable variance.
> >
> > Maybe, maybe not.
> >
> > In filing civil suits concerning federal copyrights, they're 'acting
> > under color of law', I suspect; I would myself love to see someone
> > bring 42USC1983 suits against all the people involved...  :-)
> >
> For the benefit of all of us who ANAL and also ANAA (Are Not An American),
> what is a 42USC1983 suit?   ;-)

Well, it seems much harder to get Google to answer that for me than I'd
have expected... :-)

It is, very roughly, the enforcing legislation for the US Constitution.

It says that any person who acts "under color of" any law and deprives
any citizen of any of their constitutional rights is *personally*
liable thereby; they can't hide behind, say, their police department.

	http://www.landrights.com/42USC1983.htm

Cheers,
-- jra
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