"The court's decision has troubling ramifications for consumers, service providers and the growth of the Internet," Deutsch said. "This case will have a chilling effect on private communications, such as e-mail, surfing the Internet or the sending of files between private parties."

READ IT NOW "Well, Ms. Rosen, I'll tell you what: You forward all your e-mail unedited to a public mailing list, scan and post all your private written correspondence to the same list, give us all-read access to your hard drives and post 24-7 webcams in your boudoir and bathroom, and then I'll believe you understand the invasion of privacy your shrill insistence on flushing what's left of the Constitution down the toilet entails," Ferrell suggested. This is a real threat to free speech of individuals and a capitulation to corporate rights as somehow "higher" than individual rights.