said by tmc8080:justice is a bit blind whether it comes in USA form or EU form... that said, once you buy an intellectual property.. you can't just as well go back to the store and return it... so should there be a mistrial. IMO, they shouldn't be able to go back (it is well known that court proceedures should have had the judge & other career officals recuse themselves from the case as to prevent bias), but that's just my opinion.. it would be justice for the woman who's 6 year old bought a nintentdo wii game and couldn't get a return because it didn't work and are not technology literate (while the manager kindly but firmly said that's the store's policy) in my mind.. I've known that's been the case since the early 1980s when the Intellectual Property industry got mightly greedy and consumers opened up a new front in the IP wars and the forestalling of technology (from vcr's to mp3 players, to fttp).
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