So you won't post under one user name, you won't disclose your obvious vested interest in slamming Swartz and defending the prosecutors, and resort to lame ad homs, but it's Mike who's the "fake and coward". Right...
What a shame you put all that time and effort into a wall of text that hardly anyone will bother to read. Didn't you learn to use paragraphs at school?
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I've read numerous times that he closet was unlocked. I haven't seen anyone describe how he "broke in" to this closet, which seems like a detail that would've been mentioned.
"...(whether you agree on the law or not, because that's fucking IRRELEVANT)..."
Actually it's the most important aspect of the whole sad story. What he did was not illegal. The law was being used in a completely inappropriate manner, and not for the first time by a long way.
"oh I got caught stealing."
He did not get caught stealing.
Are you deliberately trying to look completely ignorant?
In accordance with the Government's express admonitions--as conveyed to Megaupload through the sealing order and Carpathia's instructions--Megaupload avoided signaling that anything was afoot or otherwise compromising the investigation, preserving the files in their original condition without alerting users or the public that anything had changed.
So no, they did absolutely nothing to those files, as explicitly instructed.
So now it's everyone else's fault that he was slapped with a bunch of bogus, over-reaching charges? You almost sound a bit defensive there. You come across as someone who would've cheered at the charges brought against Swartz. Having a moral crisis now?
Re: Re: Tinfoil hat time - who talked to the Feds?
"JSTOR's attorney, Mary Jo White � formerly the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan � had called the lead Boston prosecutor in the case and asked him to drop it..."
But that was only once they'd seen the scope of the DoJ's charges. I'm sure they were as surprised as anyone else, and tried to call off the dog so to speak. The question Ophelia has asked is who got the ball rolling in the first place?
It's good example because speeding is another case where there is serious public doubt that that stated aim (increasing safety) is actually as important to officialdom as the considerable side-benfit (huge revenues).
But it's a bad example because most "speeders" are only exceeding the speed limit by a nominal amount because they understand the risks of grossly excessive speed, whereas copyright laws are simply ignored by many, many people. It's not a stretch to say that speed limits have considerably more respect that copyright laws.
Instead of dictionary definitions and lame imagined situations, can you provide any examples of a DDoS attack causing genuine terror? And I mean fear of actually being physically harmed or killed, not just losing some money, which is not terror.
Definition 4 clearly implies this is a permanent situation. A DDoS attack is short-term and temporary. Absolutely nothing is "destroyed". Claiming otherwise is paranoid rhetoric.
"You want to pretend that infringement isn't happening on a mass scale?
Who's pretending? It's quite well known. Can you think of any other laws being broken on such a scale? Have you wondered why only copyright is abused on such a scale? Are you intellectually honest enough with yourself to consider maybe it's a problem with the laws? There's a long history of laws that are not followed by the public because of a widespread lack of respect for them. Laws that are not respected are practically unenforceable, and need a serious rethink.
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More hilarious irony from a walking, talking stuck record.
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Perhaps you need to view the comments in threaded mode. Then it will be perfectly.
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On the post: Carmen Ortiz's Husband Criticizes Swartz Family For Suggesting Prosecution Of Their Son Contributed To His Suicide
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Actually it's the most important aspect of the whole sad story. What he did was not illegal. The law was being used in a completely inappropriate manner, and not for the first time by a long way.
"oh I got caught stealing."
He did not get caught stealing.
Are you deliberately trying to look completely ignorant?
On the post: Carmen Ortiz's Husband Criticizes Swartz Family For Suggesting Prosecution Of Their Son Contributed To His Suicide
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Key words right there.
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In accordance with the Government's express admonitions--as conveyed to Megaupload through the sealing order and Carpathia's instructions--Megaupload avoided signaling that anything was afoot or otherwise compromising the investigation, preserving the files in their original condition without alerting users or the public that anything had changed.
So no, they did absolutely nothing to those files, as explicitly instructed.
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People's feelings should always be considered... ;)
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Re: Re: Tinfoil hat time - who talked to the Feds?
But that was only once they'd seen the scope of the DoJ's charges. I'm sure they were as surprised as anyone else, and tried to call off the dog so to speak. The question Ophelia has asked is who got the ball rolling in the first place?
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It's good example because speeding is another case where there is serious public doubt that that stated aim (increasing safety) is actually as important to officialdom as the considerable side-benfit (huge revenues).
But it's a bad example because most "speeders" are only exceeding the speed limit by a nominal amount because they understand the risks of grossly excessive speed, whereas copyright laws are simply ignored by many, many people. It's not a stretch to say that speed limits have considerably more respect that copyright laws.
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Like half the US, I think you've forgotten the definition of the word terror. Hint, it's not what the USG seems to think it is.
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Who's pretending? It's quite well known. Can you think of any other laws being broken on such a scale? Have you wondered why only copyright is abused on such a scale? Are you intellectually honest enough with yourself to consider maybe it's a problem with the laws? There's a long history of laws that are not followed by the public because of a widespread lack of respect for them. Laws that are not respected are practically unenforceable, and need a serious rethink.
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