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Originally Posted by j8ear
One thing and one thing only will resolve the problem...THE [LOSER] pays all costs incurred by both parties.
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How about this... The loser pays up to their own court costs to the winner. Otherwise you're basically giving the corporations and other deep pockets a blank check to do whatever they want because no one will sue them for fear of losing and getting saddled with a shit load of legal fees.
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Originally Posted by tec-9-7
Well, the Supreme Court recently ruled that internet companies that make file-sharing software (which do have legitimate uses) ARE liable for the criminal use of their products in terms of swapping of copyrighted materials.
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Grokster basically modified the standard of
Betamax to say a company is liable if, though the product does have non-infringing uses, those are not the uses for which the product is offered. Basically, Grokster was making software so users could illegally copy copyrighted stuff... that you could also legally copy stuff with their software was secondary.
Unless you know of a company that makes and markets guns specifically for illegal uses... there's not really an analogy.