> My opinion is, if a real person uses a bot and then makes these statements under penalty of perjury, then every time that bot makes a mistake we (the tech community) should be filing Amicus curiae
Has this ever been done successfully? I found an example in Disney v. Hotfile[1] but it was eventually settled out of court and not in Hotfile's favour.
An honest mistake shouldn't constitute perjury, but the shotgun approach is not acting in good faith.
Yeah this doesn't seem to be done very often. I'm trying to encourage the behavior though because I often see that courts are easily confused by technical issues that are well understood by the community.
This may or may not be such a case, but is calming your code is flawless under penalty of perjury an honest mistake?
I did not take a position one way or the other on incorrect takedown notices.
I said it is my opinion that we as a technical community should try to help the court. Wether we have before, or wether it was successful or not, doesn't enter into it.
Has this ever been done successfully? I found an example in Disney v. Hotfile[1] but it was eventually settled out of court and not in Hotfile's favour.
An honest mistake shouldn't constitute perjury, but the shotgun approach is not acting in good faith.
[1] https://www.eff.org/cases/disney-v-hotfile