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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joethelawyer" data-source="post: 4745664" data-attributes="member: 55764">more commercials, more time for random thoughts...I'd bet that WOTC wants this to settle out of court.  First, I don't have any experience in Federal Courts, so take al this with a grain of salt.  In the state courts I have experience with in Connecticut, if you sue someone and they don't "appear", in other words they are properly served and notified of the lawsuit but they don't do anything about it, a default judgment can be entered against them.  A special hearing would then be held where the plaintiff would have to show how they've been hurt financially.  Usually these things are uncontested, and the court just accepts the plaintiff's word for the amount of damages, assuming there is some proof of them.Here's where it gets interesting.  If the defendants try to fight it, or the Court demands something more than speculative proof of the damages in the hearing in damages, the official sales figures for WOTC's products will be out there in the public's eyes.  Also, the discovery process would also necessarily have to expose this information to opposing counsel.The only way to prevent this from hapening would be for WOTC to somehow get the court case sealed, and ask for a sealed court for the trial/hearing in damages.  They can cite business secrets, etc.  I don't know if it will work.  Courts are reluctant to do that these days, at least in the CT state court I am experienced with.  Even if they win, at least for the out of state people, it's going to be a pain in the arse to collect on the judgment.  They would have to enter the judgment in foreign jurisdictions, and then find some asset to seize or wages to garnish.  Is it worth it?So, more speculation here, WOTC will try to settle this for some small amount of money and withdraw the case before this info is out there.  They don't want it going that far.  Even the RIAA cases almost always settled out of court for some small amount of money.  If I remember right, he RIAA cases even had high statutory damages predetermined, so that if they won they would automatically get a lrge amount of money. I don't think its the same thing with pdf files, thougb I could be wrong since I have no experience with copyright law.Anyhow, more food for thought.   Commercial's over, be back next one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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