Comment never forget (Score 4, Interesting) 65
Just in case you ever thought you should feel bad for copyright holders when you're looking for a torrent of your favorite copyrighted work.
The Mickey Mouse Protection act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The court case to challenge the clearly unconstitutional extension of copyright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well worth reading the SC's opinion, and especially the dissents by Breyer and Stevens.
It's a great example of how these "brilliant" legal minds sometimes get shit very, very wrong.
Breyer understood (so did Stevens),
This analysis leads inexorably to the conclusion that the statute cannot be understood rationally to advance a constitutionally legitimate interest.
They broke the contract. Fuck 'em.