- The cartels will appeal this decision and put their top lawyers on this for the appeal.

- It could be used in the parliementary discussion about the new copyright laws (due to be held in March) as an argument for the big 4, showing the representatives that they need harsher legislation (DRM here, DRM there, DRM everywhere!)

While the **AA’s of the world have been going ape, using penalities never meant to be levied against individuals not making a profit in sharing, maybe someone has a clue to sanity in this mess.

We already have seen the lengths that the cartels will go to put pressure on the average Joe about this insanity. No one is excluded be it mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, nor child. They had to find some method to even start and saying that payment due them was enough to include financial incentive is horse hockey. So were the ad driven support for websites line. No one that I know of in p2p ever sold diddly. No money changed hands.

In truth, the cartels have no one to blame but themselves on this one. They have shown what lengths they will go to, including pressing to have a child taken from its family in order to push for a court lawsuit and in my opinion that is plain wrong. At some point the rest of the world will have to consider if tieing up court time for average Joe by the thousands is going to accomplish anything other than continue to make the cartels and the courts by association look bad in the eyes of the public.

It’ll probly take them a day or so to get over the shock before they issue their usual “doom and gloom” statements about it.