Disassociation

“When a new technology comes along […] and destabilizes the way the industries have always made money, the first gut response throughout the 20th century has been; let’s shut down this technology.”

As has been demonstrated many times in the past, these lawsuits can kill technologies and companies, the prof adds.

“What’s chilling here is that a company can be served with a one-sided indictment that lists a whole set of quasi-legitimate and legitimate technological components that lots of other companies use.”

“By the time it will be finished litigating whether that’s enough or not it is dead, because these procedures for forfeiture during the trial will kill the company”