Wow I have never seen someone use their facebook page as their own personal FAP site before but that is teenagers for you.
After reading what he wrote then I am not surprised that people wanted to talk to him even if just to point out he can only say "fuck the Government" so many times and in so many ways before the Feds start knocking on your door.
I can't blame them for arresting him when after the Boston Bombings they will be extremely keen to avoid any copy cat events where they will certainly strike against any perceived threats.
With that said then after a virtual slapping to scare him then they should let this mostly harmless teenager go under some strict warnings.
My greatest concern in all this is that they will overreact where I am sure in holding him under terrorist laws he has been denied access to a lawyer who would simply tell him to shut his teen mouth and to take the fifth. As a result they may want to provoke him into saying things no wiser person would like "he will kill them all" and "he fucked their mothers"
So while his initial FB rant provided no specific threats towards anyone they may use these days to guide him into damning himself. I can only then hope the Judge recognizes his big bad teen mouth and complete lack of offence weapons.
I have been checking and the UK has law against self-incrimination under the "right to remain silent" which means you can refuse to answer questions posed by the Police or in Court.
Be aware though that refusing to answer the Police and instead only revealing your defence in Court can be used against you if the Jury conclude that you used this delay to fabricate a story.
In this regrade the best thing to tell the Police is that on "legal advise" you refuse to answer any questions. If you wish to be more forthcoming then it is best to have the Police submit questions in written form where these questions and your reply can be parsed through your lawyer. Just keep in mind that answering some questions and not others can be used against you as if you did have something to hide. So in general a blank refusal to answer questions is best and I could name 10 good reasons to validate this concept.
This has been limited under law in some examples such as if you are arrested under Terrorism laws.
Keep in mind that the Police can lie including trying to trick you out of your rights.
The EU's Human Rights Act does not mention self-incrimination directly but separately the EU Court has found "the right to remain silent under police questioning and the privilege against self-incrimination are generally recognised international standards which lie at the heart of the notion of a fair procedure under Article 6"
None of this addresses the fact that a UK law exists that directly says that if you refuse to hand over your passwords to the Police then they can stick you into prison for up to 5 years. Can this really violate the other?
The Government grew tired of encryption hindering Police investigations where they made this law thinking that the only people who would want to face a default prison term would be dangerous terrorists and pedophiles.
I will have to dig out that exact law but I am thinking though that this law is a "lie" that simply cannot he upheld when faced with international standards against self-incrimination. They are trying to compel you to talk and that is unlawful.
This I believe is why as far as I am aware no one has ever gone to prison for this. The Police would much prefer to fool people into submission with their scare law than to have it challenged in Court and struck down.
This reminded me when here in the UK one supermarket very recently had to remove monkey nuts from sale when they forget to include the mandatory label reading "Caution: This produce may contain nuts"
It looks like a nut. It smells like a nut. It tastes like a nut. Then the UK government says it "may" be a nut when your average citizen is too stupid to know what a nut in its shell looks like.
You would think those people with nut allergies would know their enemy.
I just wonder if such a self-incrimination reason would also apply here in the UK? They after all have a law that says if you don't hand over your password when asked then they will just stick you in prison for a few years anyway!
Privacy = Prison.
Maybe there is better hope under the EU Human Rights Act but I have yet to check.
That was a rather misplaced reply when there is a big difference between a President firing a Congress appointed special investigator charged to investigate Presidential abuse of power and a President cleaning up the law abuse that is being done in his name.
Should Obama not act then we can only conclude that he is fully happy with the DoJ pressuring ISPs to break the law.
I well recall that when President Obama took office that he promised us all that he would respect the law a lot more than his predecessor did.
I think we can now see the truth behind that statement when had he been serious he would soon be down the DoJ firing those responsible and threatening to shut down the entire department if law abuse continued. Or even to go as far as suing the DoJ and these ISPs in Court.
The US Administration is a very worrying sight these days and what I most fear is a madman at the helm unleashing the full power of the USA on to their own citizens before turning to the rest of the World. Hopefully we never see that day but the US Administration is primed for some major abuse.
I have been saying for a decade that the US Government has been spying on businesses where this is only one of many examples. A good reason for organizations to flee the country or at minimum to aim for full encryption.
I do welcome Congress to open debate on Copyright matters when getting the ball of change rolling is what we most need instead of all these shady back-room secretive agreements.
Little can be worse than it is already if you want TPP(A) as one dirty example. Sure the copyright side would fight for changes they want but that is fair even if not by much.
Keep in mind they simply cannot ignore the public these days unless they want millions contacting them in protest and hundreds of thousands out on the street protesting. We are the destroyers of SOPA and PIPA where ACTA is also fatally wounded.
So if the House wants open debate then face the fact that we are armed, ready and able to put on a damned good show. Our concerns about copyright law are already being heard and that is a good thing.
So in this Copyright War pre-1972 music has just become a Weapon of Mass destruction.
I am just left thinking I have 1000+ pre-1972 music songs where it is easy enough to reencode these into a vast array of formats and to then upload these to hundreds of sites.
Then UMG can go about suing every site they want where even in a few cases complete service destruction can be had. Yes even their beloved YouTube can be attacked.
Someone needs to fix that law and to be quick about it.
I can only add that media released under public domain and creative commons highlights their folly in trying to destroy BT sites which link to a true sharing medium.
Census data is extremely valuable for a vast array of reasons and Creative Commons is a wonderful medium for keeping this data free while preventing others from exploiting it for profit.
This does make me sad when barely a week can pass without another story about false DMCA censorship cropping up on one of these pro-Internet news sites. This then is only the tip of a very large iceberg when many more people either do not spot it or have no idea how to complain.
Then no matter how much damage this broken DMCA law does to the Internet then here are members of Congress doing nothing to fix it. Indeed they seem quite happy with the damage being done when crap like this is just natural fall out from rights holders protecting their media.
I can see with my own eyes that the system is scaling up to breaking point when vast censorship happens every month now is a major social disaster. When, where and how this explosion happens remains to be seen but the DMCA will never be the same afterwards.
Then lets recall Google's mantra of 'do no evil'. So on the same day they get fined in Germany for unlawful spying we have this case where Google's handling is so shoddy that there is no way that they can claim to be innocent in the mass censorship that occurs.
Well they were first thinking about his health in order to keep him alive.
Currently he is in a drug induced coma so not much opportunity to read him his Miranda rights. It also seems they can do so at leisure and I doubt they would take long.
The only exception is if they want to prevent him talking to a lawyer who is likely to just tell him to state to them a brief denial and then to take the 5th amendment.
We all know that the MPAA is against Fair Use which is why they hired some Stanford fair use experts when their own lawyers are not aware of fair use law.
Sure they defend this position all the time this case on-going but once it is over they will soon be back to pretending that fair use does not exist.
Well they do make a good point when sure enough the US Administration and the Copyright Cartels do like to contradict themselves on a case by case bases depending on their immediate aims.
Still MegaUpload won't have an easy time trying to win this point when the Judge simply won't crash the whole DoJ and FBI case simply on a technicality.
Whenever I go to a check-in desk I pull out all the forms and point out, here is my fight now, but look I am catching this other airline flight a couple of hours later.
Sure enough she taps into her keyboard the new details where then the baggage labels get printed out showing their routing to my final destination.
Only some budget airlines can be a bitch because they have no luggage transfer system meaning you need collect the luggage yourself on arrival and to manually check the luggage in for the next flight.
What I discovered is that by flying from anywhere to anywhere within possible travel plans the lowest fire ALWAYS wanted you to exchange flights at one destination.
So you aim to book a flight between A to B but it tells you the cheapest flight is through C. The change over times are not good so lets trying booking the flight from A to C where then I can then book C to B next. No such luck when the A to C flight now costs more and cheapest flight from A to C now passes through a new D.
This makes no damned sense and no matter my many tests all over Europe and Asia the results were always the same in that the cheapest flight always had one stop over. Try to book either half of that leg and the price shoots up now making it not the cheapest option.
This makes trying to book an efficient trip near damned impossible when either you can do A to B through C or bad times or you are flying all over the place trying to find some acceptable times.
General advice I have heard is to always delete your cookies when otherwise they know you are busy seeking a flight and they jack up prices as a result.
It would need to be officially filed as criminal charges before a criminal case begins when before that it is only an investigation as part of an existing civil case.
After all while it is likely that the Judge will file criminal charges that has not yet been decided and the Judge may yet rule against it.
Had the MPAA/RIAA wanted to get involved they would do this in a narrow capacity in only one or key aspects in this much larger case. To link up with Prenda would be an extremely bad idea but they could both criticise Prenda and the Judge's key rulings against them.
I hope not but the Copyright side stand to make a lot of losses here as Judge Otis Wright has already made clear by tossing out all tracking as not identifying the infringer.
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Teens...
After reading what he wrote then I am not surprised that people wanted to talk to him even if just to point out he can only say "fuck the Government" so many times and in so many ways before the Feds start knocking on your door.
I can't blame them for arresting him when after the Boston Bombings they will be extremely keen to avoid any copy cat events where they will certainly strike against any perceived threats.
With that said then after a virtual slapping to scare him then they should let this mostly harmless teenager go under some strict warnings.
My greatest concern in all this is that they will overreact where I am sure in holding him under terrorist laws he has been denied access to a lawyer who would simply tell him to shut his teen mouth and to take the fifth. As a result they may want to provoke him into saying things no wiser person would like "he will kill them all" and "he fucked their mothers"
So while his initial FB rant provided no specific threats towards anyone they may use these days to guide him into damning himself. I can only then hope the Judge recognizes his big bad teen mouth and complete lack of offence weapons.
On the post: Judge Says Giving Up Your Password May Be A 5th Amendment Violation
Re: Re: UK
Be aware though that refusing to answer the Police and instead only revealing your defence in Court can be used against you if the Jury conclude that you used this delay to fabricate a story.
In this regrade the best thing to tell the Police is that on "legal advise" you refuse to answer any questions. If you wish to be more forthcoming then it is best to have the Police submit questions in written form where these questions and your reply can be parsed through your lawyer. Just keep in mind that answering some questions and not others can be used against you as if you did have something to hide. So in general a blank refusal to answer questions is best and I could name 10 good reasons to validate this concept.
This has been limited under law in some examples such as if you are arrested under Terrorism laws.
Keep in mind that the Police can lie including trying to trick you out of your rights.
The EU's Human Rights Act does not mention self-incrimination directly but separately the EU Court has found "the right to remain silent under police questioning and the privilege against self-incrimination are generally recognised international standards which lie at the heart of the notion of a fair procedure under Article 6"
None of this addresses the fact that a UK law exists that directly says that if you refuse to hand over your passwords to the Police then they can stick you into prison for up to 5 years. Can this really violate the other?
The Government grew tired of encryption hindering Police investigations where they made this law thinking that the only people who would want to face a default prison term would be dangerous terrorists and pedophiles.
I will have to dig out that exact law but I am thinking though that this law is a "lie" that simply cannot he upheld when faced with international standards against self-incrimination. They are trying to compel you to talk and that is unlawful.
This I believe is why as far as I am aware no one has ever gone to prison for this. The Police would much prefer to fool people into submission with their scare law than to have it challenged in Court and struck down.
On the post: If Everything Is A Threat, Then Nothing Is
Re: Re:
It looks like a nut. It smells like a nut. It tastes like a nut. Then the UK government says it "may" be a nut when your average citizen is too stupid to know what a nut in its shell looks like.
You would think those people with nut allergies would know their enemy.
On the post: Judge Says Giving Up Your Password May Be A 5th Amendment Violation
UK
Privacy = Prison.
Maybe there is better hope under the EU Human Rights Act but I have yet to check.
On the post: DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
Re: Re: Re: A nation of men, not laws
Should Obama not act then we can only conclude that he is fully happy with the DoJ pressuring ISPs to break the law.
On the post: DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
Re: A nation of men, not laws
I think we can now see the truth behind that statement when had he been serious he would soon be down the DoJ firing those responsible and threatening to shut down the entire department if law abuse continued. Or even to go as far as suing the DoJ and these ISPs in Court.
The US Administration is a very worrying sight these days and what I most fear is a madman at the helm unleashing the full power of the USA on to their own citizens before turning to the rest of the World. Hopefully we never see that day but the US Administration is primed for some major abuse.
I have been saying for a decade that the US Government has been spying on businesses where this is only one of many examples. A good reason for organizations to flee the country or at minimum to aim for full encryption.
On the post: Bob Goodlatte Calls For Copyright Reform, Leaves Specifics To The Imagination
Re: Re:
On the post: Bob Goodlatte Calls For Copyright Reform, Leaves Specifics To The Imagination
Re: call it a hunch based on history
On the post: Bob Goodlatte Calls For Copyright Reform, Leaves Specifics To The Imagination
Re: Re:
On the post: Bob Goodlatte Calls For Copyright Reform, Leaves Specifics To The Imagination
Optimism
Little can be worse than it is already if you want TPP(A) as one dirty example. Sure the copyright side would fight for changes they want but that is fair even if not by much.
Keep in mind they simply cannot ignore the public these days unless they want millions contacting them in protest and hundreds of thousands out on the street protesting. We are the destroyers of SOPA and PIPA where ACTA is also fatally wounded.
So if the House wants open debate then face the fact that we are armed, ready and able to put on a damned good show. Our concerns about copyright law are already being heard and that is a good thing.
On the post: Grooveshark Loses Latest Round In Court, In A Ruling That Could Gut The DMCA's Safe Harbors
Not a safe harbour
I am just left thinking I have 1000+ pre-1972 music songs where it is easy enough to reencode these into a vast array of formats and to then upload these to hundreds of sites.
Then UMG can go about suing every site they want where even in a few cases complete service destruction can be had. Yes even their beloved YouTube can be attacked.
Someone needs to fix that law and to be quick about it.
On the post: Australian Census Data Released Under CC License, But Official Site Tries To Make It Hard To Download
CC
Census data is extremely valuable for a vast array of reasons and Creative Commons is a wonderful medium for keeping this data free while preventing others from exploiting it for profit.
On the post: You're All The Weakest Link: Bad Law Permits Bad Takedowns, Which Google Handles Badly
Censorshit
Then no matter how much damage this broken DMCA law does to the Internet then here are members of Congress doing nothing to fix it. Indeed they seem quite happy with the damage being done when crap like this is just natural fall out from rights holders protecting their media.
I can see with my own eyes that the system is scaling up to breaking point when vast censorship happens every month now is a major social disaster. When, where and how this explosion happens remains to be seen but the DMCA will never be the same afterwards.
Then lets recall Google's mantra of 'do no evil'. So on the same day they get fined in Germany for unlawful spying we have this case where Google's handling is so shoddy that there is no way that they can claim to be innocent in the mass censorship that occurs.
On the post: Why The DOJ's Decision To Not Read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights Is A Terrible Idea
The 5th
Currently he is in a drug induced coma so not much opportunity to read him his Miranda rights. It also seems they can do so at leisure and I doubt they would take long.
The only exception is if they want to prevent him talking to a lawyer who is likely to just tell him to state to them a brief denial and then to take the 5th amendment.
On the post: MPAA Pretends To Be A Regular Defender Of Fair Use; The Evidence Suggests Otherwise
Ignorance
Sure they defend this position all the time this case on-going but once it is over they will soon be back to pretending that fair use does not exist.
On the post: Megaupload Points Out That The DOJ Has Contradicted Itself Concerning Legality Of Serving Megaupload
Nice
Still MegaUpload won't have an easy time trying to win this point when the Judge simply won't crash the whole DoJ and FBI case simply on a technicality.
On the post: Flight Search Engines And The Multi-City Ripoff
Re:
Whenever I go to a check-in desk I pull out all the forms and point out, here is my fight now, but look I am catching this other airline flight a couple of hours later.
Sure enough she taps into her keyboard the new details where then the baggage labels get printed out showing their routing to my final destination.
Only some budget airlines can be a bitch because they have no luggage transfer system meaning you need collect the luggage yourself on arrival and to manually check the luggage in for the next flight.
On the post: Flight Search Engines And The Multi-City Ripoff
CrAzY FlIgHtS
What I discovered is that by flying from anywhere to anywhere within possible travel plans the lowest fire ALWAYS wanted you to exchange flights at one destination.
So you aim to book a flight between A to B but it tells you the cheapest flight is through C. The change over times are not good so lets trying booking the flight from A to C where then I can then book C to B next. No such luck when the A to C flight now costs more and cheapest flight from A to C now passes through a new D.
This makes no damned sense and no matter my many tests all over Europe and Asia the results were always the same in that the cheapest flight always had one stop over. Try to book either half of that leg and the price shoots up now making it not the cheapest option.
This makes trying to book an efficient trip near damned impossible when either you can do A to B through C or bad times or you are flying all over the place trying to find some acceptable times.
General advice I have heard is to always delete your cookies when otherwise they know you are busy seeking a flight and they jack up prices as a result.
On the post: Judge To Allow More Evidence Filed Against Team Prenda, Despite Vehement Objections From Prenda
Re: Re: Re: Curious...
After all while it is likely that the Judge will file criminal charges that has not yet been decided and the Judge may yet rule against it.
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Re: Re:
I hope not but the Copyright side stand to make a lot of losses here as Judge Otis Wright has already made clear by tossing out all tracking as not identifying the infringer.
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