Thanks for the signal boost. I'm not very legal or up on the news, but this is one of those things that made me stop in my tracks and go Whuut? and really hope that I'm interpreting it all wrong and it actually is Nothing To Get Very Excited Over.
From what I could gather from the articles this horrible can't resell your possessions dystopia wouldn't require the laws to be rewritten to come into existence, but only depends on the court's interpretation of laws that already stand. Since the court calls this possible outcome an "absurd interpretation" I think it's hopeful that common sense will prevail.
That said... the fact that there are at least two court cases going on to decide this means that there are definitely people who would like the world to be otherwise, and the worse thing is; I can see where they're coming from too. The problem is that the implications of this interpretation will come around and bite those people and everyone else on the rear at some point and it's just an awful idea all around.
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Date: 2012-10-05 09:55 pm (UTC)From what I could gather from the articles this horrible can't resell your possessions dystopia wouldn't require the laws to be rewritten to come into existence, but only depends on the court's interpretation of laws that already stand. Since the court calls this possible outcome an "absurd interpretation" I think it's hopeful that common sense will prevail.
That said... the fact that there are at least two court cases going on to decide this means that there are definitely people who would like the world to be otherwise, and the worse thing is; I can see where they're coming from too. The problem is that the implications of this interpretation will come around and bite those people and everyone else on the rear at some point and it's just an awful idea all around.