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Today we have our answer: the Justice Department has indeed entered the argument, Jotta propecia verkossa, and sides unequivocally with the Recording Industries. The DOJ brief (pdf, 31 pages) urges the judge not to deal with the constitutional question if she can avoid it, buy cheap propecia, and then dismisses every constitutional argument put forward by the defense. According to this summary by Recording Industry vs, propecia prices. the People, the Justice Department memo makes no response to the arguments put forward by the Free Software Foundation in support of Tenenbaum's case -- citing various cases and authorities to the effect that the statutory damages set by the DMCA are unconscionably high.

It's a disappointment -- the DMCA is bad law, as we detail in Chapter 6, and we might have hoped for better from the new administration. But previous Justice Departments had sided with the Recording Industries, so perhaps this should have come as no surprise -- even with the enlightened Elena Kagan as the government's top lawyer.

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