On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Stephanie da Silva wrote:
> >
> >> As I mentioned before, I tried subscr|bing to the
> >> list-managers list at eGroups and got this welcome message.
> >> As you can see, it's marked as being at eGroups but it is
> I am hardly a law historian, but I would wager that there has rarely, if
> ever, been any such thing as a class action copyright infringement suit.
>
> Anyway, perhaps the participants on this list, in particular, might want
> to band together and make some legal history.
I'd participate in such a suit. But.... I can see two problems:
i. the legal work in a class action suit is usually done by a law firm
that smells large amount of dollars in the eventual outcome
ii. I expect that if we brought a class action suit, eGroups.com would
simply stop doing what they're doing and argue that they haven't caused
anybody serious monetary harm -- hence no large amounts of dollars to pay
legal bills
As a more immediate strategy: we can all start putting a few lines in our
welcome messages saying something like:
"This list is managed and sponsored by <whomever>. It is NOT provided by
eGroups .... etc., etc."
We could do a lot to at least damage their credibility and good name -
which might have a faster result than the legal route.
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