] The complaint is constructed, as the lawyers say, ] "artfully". They vilify one of the defendants, without ] saying much about the other defendant; but they ask for ] an injunction against both. They gleefully quote one ] defendant calling himself a "hacker", apparently unaware ] that "hacker" is still a legitimate term of respect in ] some circles. They quote a law against distributing ] "access codes" and then trumpet a defendant's ] distribution of "code". And so on. ] ] There is no mention in these documents of the enormous ] free speech issue here. The injunction is a prior ] restraint on speech, which prevented the defendants from ] speaking to an specific audience that had gathered to ] hear them. Yet somehow neither Blackboard nor the court ] indicates that any consideration of the First Amendment ] was even necessary. Felten takes notice.. |