I'm just waiting for the class-action lawsuits to start:
"Count #1 of 3,143,205: client IP-address 123.124.125.126 ... Count #2 of 3,143,205 ..."
Technically and legally speaking,
every IP-address that could be traced to "a United States individual," say, could be identified as a
plaintiff. There could be
millions of
plaintiffs in that class ... and a jury might well decide to award each and every one of them $100,000.00 in damages.
Don't think that I am joking . . .
Right now, "you can get away with anything that you can dream-up to program,"
but only because "
the public the
plaintiffs do not yet know what is being done to them.
Don't suppose, merely because the lawsuits have not yet been filed, that they will not be.
In many, many ways, "our industry has been living on borrowed time." We
should bear in mind that "
none of this has ever existed before." That "it is less than 10 years(!) old." Yes, it takes a little bit of time for the judicial system to roll into action, but lawyers are the same around the world. They are
always looking for a new, juicy, lucrative case . . .
And I, for one, will be perfectly candid in expressing the opinion that this has all become a very wretched and intrinsically-abusive situation(!), which badly
needs to be tried. I'll gladly join every "class" that arrives in my (physical) mailbox, and hold out my hands waiting for the
cash to start falling down from heaven. If Google, Facebook,
etc. get hit with a $100 billion judgment, I'm quite sure they can find a way to pay it, and hey, I need a new addition on my house . . . They never asked
me for permission when they
damaged me, and I therefore feel no compulsion to ask them for permission to get my cash.
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Didn't you know that the "Internet advertisement" that you hosted on your site on May 3, 2015 contained malware that damaged me? Well, "I, and 100,000 of my closest friends," now declare to the Honorable Court that "you knew, or should have known, and in any case that you were negligent in allowing this software to be distributed on or by your web-site." Although you did not originate the malware, I assert that you were a party ... and, since the dollar-cost of our class action is well over $500 million dollars, you'd better settle ...
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Over the past fifteen years, you helped to produce 200 web-sites. Now that all of them have been successfully found to be "members of the class," they are suing you for failing to inform them at the time of the potential liability. Yeah, even though you're just a single jock who practices his trade in a Starbucks, you now face 200 lawsuits from angry clients plaintiffs who want to stick their enormous losses (and liability) on you. Your attorney advises the immediate purchase of liability insurance, with premiums of $170,000 a year ...
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"It's coming, folks.
"It's coming!" 
"No one" has
y-e-t been paying attention to what we do. Are we seriously prepared for the repercussions ... when they
begin?
(Heh ...) We
should be!
Everyone who "puts something into a box and sells it to the public" constantly faces the reality of being sued ... and steers their way through a phalanx of laws designed specifically to protect the public.
Everyone, so far, except us!
Be prepared, folks. Those days are over. Forever.
