While I find it amusing that the attorney who wrote the opinion makes his living off telling us the sky is falling, I'll leave that for others to disect.
I was having lunch yesterday with arguably the largest distributor in the video business, and his take on it was pretty simple. As long as people like Rob Black are out there with the "out there" content, it makes the possibility of prosecution for less "cutting edge" content much less likely.
The bottom line is that the government doesn't prosecute cases it doesn't think it can win. The money and time invested in these trials is enormous, and any time there is a precedent set -- which there really wasn't in this case, since there was no verdict, let me point out -- it can go either way towards establishing circumstances that could prove as unfavorable for the government as they might for the defendant.
No one really knows what twelve men and women will decide in a case, especially if both sides have good attorneys.
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