What happened at the August 2 hearing?
It’s been very hard to get any information about the August 2 hearing itself; what I heard through the grapevine was that it was focused primarily on the “standing” question of whether or not the mirror sites had a right to appeal. They claimed that if the court order bound them then they had to have a right to appeal, and conversely if they didn’t have a right to appeal then the court order couldn’t bind them. The plaintiffs apparently claimed that the mirror sites were bound by the court order but had no right to appeal. The judges issued a decision on September 27 saying that the mirror sites had no right to appeal, but not saying whether or not the order bound them. It’s not at all clear where that leaves them. If their logic was correct, then that should mean the order doesn’t bind them and they have the right to put their mirrors back up; but that’s a dangerous bet to make because if the order does bind them, they’d be guilty of contempt of court (which is an actual “crime”, sign
