Or maybe the court that the RIAA thinks will ultimately hear any related cases just had a conservative judge confirmed that they think will be sympathetic to them.
That couldn't possibly shift anything; RBG was pretty much a copyright maximalist.
The best ACB (who AFAIK has very little if any notable copyright record, either as a judge or otherwise) could be, from their perspective, is no change from the status quo ante.
I'm completely guessing here but as ACB takes the stance of originalism, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch for her to look at the DMCA's ability to silence people talking about how to break DRM as a blatant disregard for the for the First Amendment.
Are conservative judges more likely to rule on the side of strengthening copyright? I didn't realize there was a liberal <-> conservative split on this.
I haven’t noticed a political association with copyright cases, I know some conservative Judges in Texas counties pretty much kicked copyright trolls out of the courtroom when they tried targeting defendants using IP addresses.
Intellectual Property also seems like a more liberal realm, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, RIAA, MPAA, Disney, Apple, etc. all seem to be quite left leaning.
They aren't. Like others have pointed out, RBG was a copyright maximalist and all the proponents of strengthening copyright, RIAA, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, etc tend to be left-leaning.
No idea where that line of thinking came from. Though if I were a little more cynical I'd say sometimes it feels like there's a trend to attribute everything negative to conservatives.
