That was never going to happen.mindlesspuppet said:I wish this trial had played out to set some future precedent
Crippen lucked out by his case turning into a pissing contest between the judge and the government. My reading of the case is that the judge was signed on for crucifying Crippen until the prosecution showed what he felt was a lack of respect for the law and legal procedure, at which point he blew a gasket and stacked the deck against them (well, restacked the deck so it no longer massively favoured them), knowing they'd have to drop their case for fear of having a binding precedent set that neutered the DMCA.
Which is to say he punished them for having such a pissweak case and knew they'd have no choice but to sit back and take it.