14th November 2003, 5:16 PM
That wasn't capitalism. That was abusing a legal loophole that exists outside the business world. How DID legal fees pile up if Sony had to pay them all? Did Sony sue them on multiple claims at the same time? Some sort of system should be in place to disarm such attacks... In fact, shouldn't such obviuosly empty claims as Sony would have had to make at the same time as the main claim have been thrown out from the start?
Hmm, perhaps instead of the party being sued having to pay legal fees as well as the party suing, the party that sues should pay all legal fees, with that being reimbursed by the sued should the suing party win. No, that would be aweful in a situation where someone who doesn't have much money is suing a major company (well, it would be aweful now and then, but it WOULD keep a lot of trivial million dollar handout cases from occuring so much)... Hmm, here's an idea. The courts could pay the legal fees up until the looser is found, and they pay the courts pack the fees... Hmm... I'd assume this would work without the tax payer having to suffer the cost, what with the looser in the court cases paying them back, but I dunno. One thing's for sure, the current system is at least as bad as my three solutions. Another thing's for sure, sometimes having a CHANGE of cruelty is at least more interesting :D.
Hmm, perhaps instead of the party being sued having to pay legal fees as well as the party suing, the party that sues should pay all legal fees, with that being reimbursed by the sued should the suing party win. No, that would be aweful in a situation where someone who doesn't have much money is suing a major company (well, it would be aweful now and then, but it WOULD keep a lot of trivial million dollar handout cases from occuring so much)... Hmm, here's an idea. The courts could pay the legal fees up until the looser is found, and they pay the courts pack the fees... Hmm... I'd assume this would work without the tax payer having to suffer the cost, what with the looser in the court cases paying them back, but I dunno. One thing's for sure, the current system is at least as bad as my three solutions. Another thing's for sure, sometimes having a CHANGE of cruelty is at least more interesting :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)