... to murder lowbies who are just trying to go in or out of the main hub towns?

they're loving it.

I say skip to the end where that monster of a tablet runs off to the north pole to never see people again and commit suicide by fire.

Or an incentive to just stop caring and start ignoring the requests from media lawyers.

Yeah, I only noticed my typo after hitting submit. It's that sort of thing that makes me long for a slashdot "edit" button.

...that you can't trust a bunch of anarchist computer network destroyers to be the champions of law and justice?

More than that, you need to filter out the nutjobs who would otherwise sue everyone and everything using insane troll logic to justify themselves and would constantly bog down the legal process by questioning even well established facts by claiming that "nobody ever proved it to them." Having lawyers as necessary middlemen does remove a whole lot of clutter for this specific problem, and if the lawyer himself becomes the problem, Jack Thompson demonstrated how well that ends up for them.

The abuse does not come from the request itself, but usually what follows said request. The plaintiff usually knows that he has thin legal ground over his lawsuit and will pull back his suit before a judgement likely to favor the defendants (and set a landmark) can happen. He will then turn around and DIRECTLY contact each of those defendants that got outed in the discovery process and personally extort thousands of dollars from them under threat of ruining them through endless litigation that will cost them far more to defend themselves from a million dollar lawsuit.

Now THAT is textbook abuse.

Dark matter is more of a medium charcoal color.

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