[pasbesoin]

It holds up "in court" (figuratively) when: It's cheaper to pay a couple of grand than to pay a lawyer; A three -- or six -- strikes commercially-initiated and/or arbitrated policy kicks you off the Net; Private, commercial database records haunt you indefinitely.

I think that, for a majority of people, this will end up being about "clout" rather than the rule of law. And they will feel/find themselves on the short end of that stick. And the more they fear, the more that entrenched interests win by default.

I would guess that we're in agreement. I just become a bit... I don't know what word to use, when I read "in court" these days. Because industry is doing everything it can to ensure that "in court" (literally) is precisely not where the battle is fought.