Oracle's market cap is only around $180e9 whereas Alphabet is around $846e9. They could simply buy Oracle and scuttle the appeal for precedence sake. The only downside for Alphabet is that they will lose a few billion for running a failing purchase.

It is prudent for businesses to keep blacklists of consumers who attempt to exercise their legal entitlements. For example, Equifax should include in your credit report the fact that you attempted to claim the class action settlement against them, or any other lawsuits that you have been involved in with any other large business. That would limit liability for companies and deter lawsuits.

This is not necessarily undesirable when considered in a proper context. More egregious abuses of the DMCA will call for significant reforms of the law. It would be outrageous if political opponents abused the DMCA takedown process during an election.

I also want to punish anyone who has the audacity to challenge corporations.

Equifax should note on their credit reports if you made a claim in a class action suit. Businesses are keenly aware that litigious individuals are riskier and should mitigate that risk. This would also serve to discourage class action suits in the future.

How about requiring all government communications to be published in an encrypted archive, but the private key is a shared secret that is given to every citizen in the country? The private key can be recovered when enough people gather their shares.

Why shouldn't prisoners repay their debts to society with labor? They are literally stealing money from me with their free room, food, and supervision. Make them liable for all of the costs of their incarceration. If they can not repay from their accrued wealth then force them to work to pay for their stays. Extend their stays until they are able to completely repay their debts. If they are unwilling or unable to work, then garnish wages from their families or harvest their organs for sale.

They are prisoners. They lost the privilege of having contact with the outside world when they committed their crimes. Why should they have access to visitors, letters, or anything else while they serve their sentences?

Perhaps one solution would be to allow some prisoners to have video calls with visitors if their visitors pay to use terminals inside the prison facility. The prison can earn additional profit by curating some of those video calls and producing a reality television show from them alongside security footage of the prisoners themselves.

Why do prisoners get to have contact with the outside at all? Ban all phones, televisions, radios, visitors, letters, and the like from prisons. The prisons can still profit from the friends and families of the prisoners by allowing them to pay for their stays and meals.

The proper way to profit from vulnerability research is by shorting the stock of the publicly traded company before publishing your results. The capital gains can be used to fund more research. https://arstechnica.com/inform...

Google can delist the customers of Oracle from the search engine as well as use other tactics to devalue Oracle's stock price. Once Oracle is cheap enough, Google can simply buy majority shares and dismiss the lawsuit. Oracle does not have similar tactics at its disposal.

Thirty years ago, we had 1.44MB floppies. This fifteen year to 1024-fold increase correspondence holds up.

Academic publishers have every right to protect their intellectual property and charge for access. No one has the right to deny that. If they are not able to profit then there will be no publications.

the NSA (in their role of protecting the nation's data infrastructure, not their role of spying on everyone -- two very different organizations within the NSA)

Or so the NSA would have you believe...