What does “soon after” mean for the USSC? Are we talking about a few months or a few years? Does a case need to go through a bunch of appeals from lower courts and spend many millions first?
ANY website not known exclusively as a place where stuff gets pirated
The government lawyers will be sure to tell the judge that’s exactly what the sites in questions are known as.
(Technically, stuff isn’t normally pirated at a site, unless it offers direct download links. And yet there are rulings even against Bittorrent trackers, which basically offer a non-searchable world-writeable hashmap. It’s 100% bullshit and politics—if there was any objective standard for “infringing websites”, Google.com would be heading the list. Instead we got a world where a judge is likely to think “P2P==piracy” instead of, say, “P2P==Internet”.)
What does “soon after” mean for the USSC? Are we talking about a few months or a few years? Does a case need to go through a bunch of appeals from lower courts and spend many millions first?
Short answer: Probably years and millions.
Under article three, section two of the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court has “original jurisdiction” only in “Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party.” Mostly, they only decide cases that have already been through at least two levels of federal courts, and maybe some state courts before that.
What does “soon after” mean for the USSC? Are we talking about a few months or a few years? Does a case need to go through a bunch of appeals from lower courts and spend many millions first?
The government lawyers will be sure to tell the judge that’s exactly what the sites in questions are known as.
(Technically, stuff isn’t normally pirated at a site, unless it offers direct download links. And yet there are rulings even against Bittorrent trackers, which basically offer a non-searchable world-writeable hashmap. It’s 100% bullshit and politics—if there was any objective standard for “infringing websites”, Google.com would be heading the list. Instead we got a world where a judge is likely to think “P2P==piracy” instead of, say, “P2P==Internet”.)
Short answer: Probably years and millions.
Under article three, section two of the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court has “original jurisdiction” only in “Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party.” Mostly, they only decide cases that have already been through at least two levels of federal courts, and maybe some state courts before that.