Well, a series of lawyers ruined their businesses doing this till ACS took it on having no other business or credibility. ACS crashed and burned in every way possible - Why does Gaurdaley think it'll work?
I don't believe Rightscorp downloads any part of the files - they just scrape IPs. Of course, admitting that would be admitting they have no evidence whatsoever.
Could you suggest a candidate that would have a chance at a Presidential Election in the US electoral system that does not carry a list of baggage of these if not greater proportions?
A reasonable interpretation of this detection is that the detecting computer was itself infringing the work in question. In other words, these detection organisations are serial infringers.
Funnily enough, the US may have made extradition significantly less likely with this move. Dotcom can currently not pay his US lawyers and will therefore, if extradited, be forced to fight without access to the sort of resources needed to fight a case of this magnitude. This is the US intent. It is a possibly sufficient to show a fair trial is not possible in the US which is grounds to deny the extradition.
In middle ages in England there was a fad of suing farm animals. It didn't last long because it was plainly nuts. I agree, suing inanimate property makes even less sense.
Civil Asset forfeiture is legalised theft. Nothing more.
Kim Dotcom has actually, in this case, been denied the opportunity to even defend against it.
There seem to be an awful lot of people having the property seized that are plainy none of the above? What is wrong with convicting these people first?
It must be remembered that for most of copyright history, the legal limited monopoly called copyright was supported by the cost of entry to markets that were prohibitive for the private non-commercial user. For commercial infringers, these were small in number and manageable in the court system.
Today, all manner of commonplace devices can do the task. The mistake they make is in thinking that the law was ever a deterrent to casual infringement (sharing of culture, in effect). It was not, it was simply a capability that few people had. Starting with cassette players, that has gradually changed so that today everyone has the capability. That the law says I can't make a cassette copy for the car or rip a cd to my phone of something I have already paid for is silly and unenforceable.
It is a shame that there are idiots are so oblivious of this that they will torpedo a law change that costs them nothing and is in real the tiniest step towrads the 20th century.
Of course she has a score of 400/400. This is a score of the threat level to the fearmongering collect it all NSA/FBI/CIA collection activities. It is not a score of the threat of terror related issues against US nationals.
So, having communicated this bill to me digitally, I must inform the NZ government (My government) that I find this bill offensive, and therefore in violation of itself.
I'll stand back and let some petty bureaucrat's head explode with that one.
Might as well give GEMA what they want. Notice and stay down means everything gets taken down - even the stuff GEMA wants up. There can be no middle ground on that requirement. The current status does not in effect change and GEMA gets paid nothing either way.
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BTW, I'm not disagreeing. We've had enough Bushes and Clintons in the White House for a few generations.
Unfortunately, US presidential elections are not won on merit.
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Those that pirate and buy are looking to get everything they can - they are fans. You know, like Grateful Dead fans
Those that only by sanitised monopoly price stuff are more likely to be older or not that interest in music
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Kim Dotcom has actually, in this case, been denied the opportunity to even defend against it.
There seem to be an awful lot of people having the property seized that are plainy none of the above? What is wrong with convicting these people first?
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Today, all manner of commonplace devices can do the task. The mistake they make is in thinking that the law was ever a deterrent to casual infringement (sharing of culture, in effect). It was not, it was simply a capability that few people had. Starting with cassette players, that has gradually changed so that today everyone has the capability. That the law says I can't make a cassette copy for the car or rip a cd to my phone of something I have already paid for is silly and unenforceable.
It is a shame that there are idiots are so oblivious of this that they will torpedo a law change that costs them nothing and is in real the tiniest step towrads the 20th century.
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I'll stand back and let some petty bureaucrat's head explode with that one.
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