I can't see this as a bad thing even if Napster happened all of 14 years ago and only now is a crack starting to appear in heart of the DoJ.
The only realization that John Newman has made is that this is the World we live in now, where despite the rabid protests of the old organizations as their control slipped away, then the World we have here now is here to stay and it is just impossible to turn history back to pre-Napster.
We then move on to the second stage where we look and see that the free sharing world is not so harmful and there are some good aspects to be gained. The ease of creation and free distribution has led to a bloom of new content to a level never before seen in human history. Destroying content locks allows people to enjoy media in the way they desire which goes to increase their enjoyment. Freely sharing culture, knowledge and entertainment is good for society. Then that which is copied can never be lost except by lack of worth.
Then we at last conclude that the established laws are just not serving either the copyright holders or the consumers in this modern market. He did correctly identify that statutory damages are a big problem like in the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset being dragged through cruel and unusual in terms of millions in fines, which this mother of 3 could never pay, all for sharing a few songs she had downloaded.
It is clear to see that it would serve the interest of all just to have gave her a small fine and to send her home. Quick and efficient with results for the media owners in that she has been ordered to stop or risk contempt of court. All of a few minutes in court also means small lawyer bills and court time can then be spent on more important cases.
It is fine for John Newman to theorise his own fix when this simply shows his realisation of the problem. We also do need the ideas of many before we do come to conclude what needs to be fixed and how.
I have seen the meme for 3 or 4 weeks now of that damned guy doing pelvic thrusting in the elevator.
It is clear to see why this catchy song has become popular when the music video is both classy and absurd. Worse yet people who look at it say to themselves that this is easy in that they can do this. This has led to a lot of replication and parodies where some of them are very good.
Psy cannot be unhappy about this situation when popularity sure does sell and he could well sell out any planned event you could name. The sweet surgery taste of Korean K-Pop can be quite refreshing to many bred on the taste of hard-core western songs. Psy seems quite content even to the point of grading the parodies.
Well this Gangnam Style has not peaked yet in its popularity and this dance craze is breaking out all over. I personally cannot be unhappy when it gets many hot women shaking their butts. I am only left wondering how anyone can wear a yellow suit when they look like a walking banana.
I would not be uncaring to the musicians and bands involved but this is really the era of the lawyers and accountants now where those said musicians really are an assert to be bought, sold, traded or reworked as their new masters see fit.
Having UMG buy your label is enough to make anyone very concerned and just maybe a strike threat can win them a few concessions. They do need to be very careful though when if they give UMG too many headaches then they may decide to just close Parlophone and sell off the assets. You can also bet the lawyers already have all the tools they need to goad these musicians into their new roles.
I am also doubting that UMG would want to appear soft early on by giving away concessions when if they do other labels may want to get strike ideas as well. Better for them to pick out the trouble maker in order to punish them harshly so the rest are fearful, respectful and compliant. UMG can get away with being nasty as well when they are the Devil of the music world.
So good luck to them but their best hope is to show to UMG how valuable Parlophone can be to them if correctly nurtured but they would be lucky to even get that voice.
In this case they can only bend over and take UMG's meaty wedge into a very sensitive place. It is true that they once signed a contract and now they have to live through a painful part of that.
This is not to say that I am not sorry for musicians when such sales can leave so many of them f**ked over. Keep in mind that the labels own the copyright on the music and artists are only left with a contract that tends to end when the music label company ends.
UMG are certainly the biggest and badest of the group where free music income is of course tempting to them should they want to shut down a label and to sell the assets (the copyrights)... to themselves. They get all the music income and the musicians now don't.
At least active and profitable labels are more likely to survive but if UMG can modernize them is a good question. In any case just not a happy or pain-free time.
Still this comes awfully close to entrapment. It is rather naive of people to think they can leave shiny glittery golden much desired objects laying about and that everyone would be honest enough to return them. Sure it is nice to see honesty from your fellow citizens but in such hard economic times objects of value can prove extra temping to some.
Well all TSA agents know the risk and those who steal get fired as he will now be. Then his wife will sure get some revenge even if that is for him losing is job.
You may want to ask how many of those musicians who sign a contract with a UMG label actually pay some of their earnings to make Lady Gaga as rich and powerful as she is.
That is how the music industry works making their "stars" so every new musician can dream of being the next Lady Gaga so they also sign a contract with a UMG label.
It is a mugs game when only about 1 in 10 of those who sign up to a label make success on their first album. Then imagine how many of those need to be whittled down until you have your one King or Queen of the decade.
So the Indie market sure has a lack of related multi-millionaires but that does not mean that millions in income cannot be had. Most musicians though just earn an honest wage good enough to live on. They then make success or failure on their own music and marketing skills.
That was a nice coverage of the situation when yes technology has much changed the music world leaving these old industries close to obsolete with an expensive architecture that still needs to be paid for.
While we can welcome in the new music era of lower cost music in a market of vast choice we should also keep in mind the few music labels still alive within the RIAA when since they control almost half the music market still then this still makes them a powerful force. We have the likes of SOPA, PIPA and more (like DaJaz1) as evidence of their aim to seize much greater control of the new music market to bring it back under the RIAA umbrella.
Their decline will of course continue but my point would be since Indie music is now the majority force then the RIAA won't be opening up their doors to represent the majority music of America because we well know who exactly is paying their millions in wages and political lobbying expenses!
If musicians are to control their own destiny then they do need representation on all levels of music market policy. You are now a bigger collective than even UMG so go and use it.
Radio and TV stations are of course a problem when this is an old market promotion system. Things do not need to be this way when we only need to lock everyone in the same room until they have figured out a new system. It is either that choice or to wait until technology passes them by but keep in mind that these media outlets can often be monopoly market gatekeepers bigger and even worse than the RIAA. They sure won't be going down without a fight and regulation over Internet services would be a real risk.
It is not a plan as such but a group of people who want the same goal and donations from people who believe in the same goal and want to help. This is largely removed from the whim of politics who tend to be good at killing plans and wasting money.
So it is just intelligent people who have an idea what technology we need and then to use the donations to fund advances in those directions. Then using this new technology they can make profit and obtain further funds to meet their goals.
This point of all this is that getting to another star system is possible even if extremely hard. It is all physics and time/distance for the power needed along with systems to last the trip. If we don't believe it is possible, if we don't aim to achieve this goal, then we simply will never ever get there.
So all about going and doing it. Human civilization won't last forever and who knows what the future holds.
When they get their exotic matter and massive power coming out of a small box then we will give them the Noble prize for 50 years in a row... but not until then.
You don't need to send 500 people to another star system.
What you need is human eggs and sperms which can be frozen for as long as you what. No oxygen use, no food or water needed, and only little power use.
Then about 12 to 17 years away from exoplanet landing it is best to create 20 females (2 are spare). Oxygen, food, water and a robotic education then needed.
These 20 females once landed create a farm and crops. Most important is that each female is made pregnant as many times as possible with boys and girls. Some of the women work on the farm and others do young child care.
As the children get to schooling age they get a robotic education system to educate them into needed jobs. Extra buildings, mining, electronics, factory work and more.
In about 20 years on the planet you should have around 250 citizens in a small town. Then as they are encouraged into marriage and banging away hard it is time for the robotic education system to work out what other job types are needed such as Nuclear Power engineers for power plants.
Then as they slowly spread over the planet's surface your job is done and they can now look after themselves. So all it took was some genetic donations from some healthy people back on Earth.
Obviously there would be a lot of technology needed and it would not be an easy life for those first 20 women. Still if they fail then your system can just make another 20.
I would say the copyright side still has the upper hand and are certainly being active in using their power in trying to ram though more nasty laws.
Internet piracy is their Godsend and all the time it exists there is the perfect excuse for even harsher laws.
I do think politicians are starting to wake up though and while they may well see piracy as bad they also see even harsher rights enforcement as bad also.
What happened in Canada was very productive where they took many big steps in the right direction. It is true that the digital locks part was not good when it is no good having many nice fair dealing clauses if you then set the rights holders as the gatekeepers to this. I now only await the day of some Court case where it is concluded that their use was fair dealing but they are still punished for breaking the digital lock to do so.
With that said Canada is the best we have and we should encourage other countries to follow their example. Certainly across the border in the USA they do need big changes like limiting the fines for non-commercial infringement and statutory damages make for a nice fantasy world far removed from facts.
I now hope for productive improvements in the UK but I don't think that they are that keen on the subject.
So much for democracy when such a large treaty is passed without any opposing voice being given the chance to air their concerns. I am not even sure how you would class such a Government beyond foolish.
Then what can I say to DVD backups being banned. Anyone with kids well knows that DVDs and young kids do not mix well. So keep the original DVD safe and burn the kids a copy they can damage all they want with a new copy available when it no longer plays right. One of many fair uses clauses I am sure.
Well this is a sad day indeed. They have obviously seen the large public protect and failure of ACTA in Europe. Now they want to sure up what remains so they hit the remaining countries hard with all opposition denied.
I can only say that we need to work hard in the remaining countries to ensure ACTA is rejected when if ACTA does hit the right numbers when it will become a live international treaty and that would be trouble. Even in a future year the EU may get ACTA when they go we will only do this for you if the EU ratifies ACTA. And with barely a whimper of protest or news story they would. So the fight to kill ACTA must be global and we must fight on a global level.
Then if you want a second reason then look at the contempt and arrogance that is coming out of TPP(A). They could have welcomed an open discussion to modernize copyright and patent laws across the globe to the benefit of many but no when this is only the demands of the few.
This is a very dangerous time where the very Internet is at stake and we should not let organizations ram through new laws so they can cut themselves a slice of control.
I presume that is the usual shock sites like 2 girls 1 cup, blue waffle, and lemon party. That type of thing is take it or leave it. Learn your likes and dislikes where you then aim to avoid your dislikes.
Yes the UK likes to censor porn but in every case I have seen they have always badly failed. Censorship never stands up well to market demand then people soon do actively work around this Government censorship.
I have directly seen what kind of censorship filtering they do including blocking an historical BBS achieve of ASCII art and BBS messages.
Hmmm their few nudes made up of ASCII characters are so hardcore, not. I would class that at about 5% of what anyone can see daily on page 3 of The Sun.
Beyond their crazy blocking of weird sites there was also a vast array of much more child inappropriate sites they did not block.
Well if they are serious on content filtering then that makes for another group of people who need to learn to use a VPN service. Just remember those school kids are quick learners and are often great with technology.
I am not surprised by this. These automated bots are nothing more than content rapists. Like going down a dark alley to be met by a dozen males with a gun.
Copyright enforcement is totally one sided and NASA lost their Curiosity landing video because YouTube's content ID system is ultra retarded and does not even know what Public Domain is or that no one can actually copyright it. If YouTube can't even figure out that easy one then the on-line content streaming world is doomed.
Now in this Hugo Awards Ceremony case you of course have both prior approval and fair use. There simply should be no system in place even pondering taking down this stream.
What is most sad here is that this problem could be easily fixed by adding an automatic fine to a false take-down. So if they want to nuke the Hugo Awards again they get an automatic fine of $10,000, $20,000 or $50,000. Sure enough if UStream gets a fine like that they would sh*t bricks and forever more their system would not even try to remove content unless they were completely certain.
The main problem is that content rights are still stuck in the 19th century. There was no way these Hugo Awards could flag online their prior consent to use these clips. Neither could they flag an even larger Awards Ceremony setting granting a fair use status.
So all that can happen is that you, myself, or an automated bot can look at the video and draw our own conclusions without a single scrap of proof to back it up.
I would even go as far to say the whole content protection system including the DMCA should be taken down until such a time that it is technically worthy to be on the Internet. I would add content hashes, public domain, creative commons, fair use, approval token trading, and yes FINES for improper settings and take-down abuse.
This content match system is the dog's bollocks. If that is the best these rights owners can come up with leading to a content bombing campaign then it is no surprise that the file sharing community runs technical rings around them.
Then if the do the same as with ACTA then shortly before this event happens they will move the event forwards by one week where so many people won't be able to rebook their flights and hotel rooms.
Well if they are there for 10 days then presentations from 8am to 8pm would result in 825 presentations at 8 minutes each including one hour off for lunch.
More likely the public time is one day, the hours are shorter meaning under 82 presentations, then for the other 9 days those TPP people will get a luxury stay including hookers and blackjack.
It has been clear enough that the US Administration has not so long ago promoted certain people into key jobs to better aid their War on Infringement.
Judge Beryl Howell is clearly one of these people being a pro-copyright shill now working hard to turn back the court rulings of other Judges. A nice position for her to hammer away at evil infringers, innocent or guilty, or just people who get in her way.
I can only hope that other Judges see Beryl Howell for who she really is and they take steps to minimise her political interference in the Justice system.
To make matters worse Judge Beryl Howell is clearly disillusional where as seen above many things is quotes is totally against known reality. I am not even sure if that makes her dangerous or harmless when that depends on what other Judges let her get away with.
In any case I hope people do vote out Obama just so we can get rid or Joe Biden and other people like Judge Beryl Howell would soon be replaced as well. That is US politics for you.
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realization
The only realization that John Newman has made is that this is the World we live in now, where despite the rabid protests of the old organizations as their control slipped away, then the World we have here now is here to stay and it is just impossible to turn history back to pre-Napster.
We then move on to the second stage where we look and see that the free sharing world is not so harmful and there are some good aspects to be gained. The ease of creation and free distribution has led to a bloom of new content to a level never before seen in human history. Destroying content locks allows people to enjoy media in the way they desire which goes to increase their enjoyment. Freely sharing culture, knowledge and entertainment is good for society. Then that which is copied can never be lost except by lack of worth.
Then we at last conclude that the established laws are just not serving either the copyright holders or the consumers in this modern market. He did correctly identify that statutory damages are a big problem like in the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset being dragged through cruel and unusual in terms of millions in fines, which this mother of 3 could never pay, all for sharing a few songs she had downloaded.
It is clear to see that it would serve the interest of all just to have gave her a small fine and to send her home. Quick and efficient with results for the media owners in that she has been ordered to stop or risk contempt of court. All of a few minutes in court also means small lawyer bills and court time can then be spent on more important cases.
It is fine for John Newman to theorise his own fix when this simply shows his realisation of the problem. We also do need the ideas of many before we do come to conclude what needs to be fixed and how.
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Meme
It is clear to see why this catchy song has become popular when the music video is both classy and absurd. Worse yet people who look at it say to themselves that this is easy in that they can do this. This has led to a lot of replication and parodies where some of them are very good.
Psy cannot be unhappy about this situation when popularity sure does sell and he could well sell out any planned event you could name. The sweet surgery taste of Korean K-Pop can be quite refreshing to many bred on the taste of hard-core western songs. Psy seems quite content even to the point of grading the parodies.
Well this Gangnam Style has not peaked yet in its popularity and this dance craze is breaking out all over. I personally cannot be unhappy when it gets many hot women shaking their butts. I am only left wondering how anyone can wear a yellow suit when they look like a walking banana.
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Having UMG buy your label is enough to make anyone very concerned and just maybe a strike threat can win them a few concessions. They do need to be very careful though when if they give UMG too many headaches then they may decide to just close Parlophone and sell off the assets. You can also bet the lawyers already have all the tools they need to goad these musicians into their new roles.
I am also doubting that UMG would want to appear soft early on by giving away concessions when if they do other labels may want to get strike ideas as well. Better for them to pick out the trouble maker in order to punish them harshly so the rest are fearful, respectful and compliant. UMG can get away with being nasty as well when they are the Devil of the music world.
So good luck to them but their best hope is to show to UMG how valuable Parlophone can be to them if correctly nurtured but they would be lucky to even get that voice.
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The meaty one
This is not to say that I am not sorry for musicians when such sales can leave so many of them f**ked over. Keep in mind that the labels own the copyright on the music and artists are only left with a contract that tends to end when the music label company ends.
UMG are certainly the biggest and badest of the group where free music income is of course tempting to them should they want to shut down a label and to sell the assets (the copyrights)... to themselves. They get all the music income and the musicians now don't.
At least active and profitable labels are more likely to survive but if UMG can modernize them is a good question. In any case just not a happy or pain-free time.
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Still this comes awfully close to entrapment. It is rather naive of people to think they can leave shiny glittery golden much desired objects laying about and that everyone would be honest enough to return them. Sure it is nice to see honesty from your fellow citizens but in such hard economic times objects of value can prove extra temping to some.
Well all TSA agents know the risk and those who steal get fired as he will now be. Then his wife will sure get some revenge even if that is for him losing is job.
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Re: Still Waitring
That is how the music industry works making their "stars" so every new musician can dream of being the next Lady Gaga so they also sign a contract with a UMG label.
It is a mugs game when only about 1 in 10 of those who sign up to a label make success on their first album. Then imagine how many of those need to be whittled down until you have your one King or Queen of the decade.
So the Indie market sure has a lack of related multi-millionaires but that does not mean that millions in income cannot be had. Most musicians though just earn an honest wage good enough to live on. They then make success or failure on their own music and marketing skills.
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The World Turns
While we can welcome in the new music era of lower cost music in a market of vast choice we should also keep in mind the few music labels still alive within the RIAA when since they control almost half the music market still then this still makes them a powerful force. We have the likes of SOPA, PIPA and more (like DaJaz1) as evidence of their aim to seize much greater control of the new music market to bring it back under the RIAA umbrella.
Their decline will of course continue but my point would be since Indie music is now the majority force then the RIAA won't be opening up their doors to represent the majority music of America because we well know who exactly is paying their millions in wages and political lobbying expenses!
If musicians are to control their own destiny then they do need representation on all levels of music market policy. You are now a bigger collective than even UMG so go and use it.
Radio and TV stations are of course a problem when this is an old market promotion system. Things do not need to be this way when we only need to lock everyone in the same room until they have figured out a new system. It is either that choice or to wait until technology passes them by but keep in mind that these media outlets can often be monopoly market gatekeepers bigger and even worse than the RIAA. They sure won't be going down without a fight and regulation over Internet services would be a real risk.
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Re: to go boldly where no MAN has gone before....
So it is just intelligent people who have an idea what technology we need and then to use the donations to fund advances in those directions. Then using this new technology they can make profit and obtain further funds to meet their goals.
This point of all this is that getting to another star system is possible even if extremely hard. It is all physics and time/distance for the power needed along with systems to last the trip. If we don't believe it is possible, if we don't aim to achieve this goal, then we simply will never ever get there.
So all about going and doing it. Human civilization won't last forever and who knows what the future holds.
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When they get their exotic matter and massive power coming out of a small box then we will give them the Noble prize for 50 years in a row... but not until then.
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500 is the idiot plan
What you need is human eggs and sperms which can be frozen for as long as you what. No oxygen use, no food or water needed, and only little power use.
Then about 12 to 17 years away from exoplanet landing it is best to create 20 females (2 are spare). Oxygen, food, water and a robotic education then needed.
These 20 females once landed create a farm and crops. Most important is that each female is made pregnant as many times as possible with boys and girls. Some of the women work on the farm and others do young child care.
As the children get to schooling age they get a robotic education system to educate them into needed jobs. Extra buildings, mining, electronics, factory work and more.
In about 20 years on the planet you should have around 250 citizens in a small town. Then as they are encouraged into marriage and banging away hard it is time for the robotic education system to work out what other job types are needed such as Nuclear Power engineers for power plants.
Then as they slowly spread over the planet's surface your job is done and they can now look after themselves. So all it took was some genetic donations from some healthy people back on Earth.
Obviously there would be a lot of technology needed and it would not be an easy life for those first 20 women. Still if they fail then your system can just make another 20.
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Hope
Internet piracy is their Godsend and all the time it exists there is the perfect excuse for even harsher laws.
I do think politicians are starting to wake up though and while they may well see piracy as bad they also see even harsher rights enforcement as bad also.
What happened in Canada was very productive where they took many big steps in the right direction. It is true that the digital locks part was not good when it is no good having many nice fair dealing clauses if you then set the rights holders as the gatekeepers to this. I now only await the day of some Court case where it is concluded that their use was fair dealing but they are still punished for breaking the digital lock to do so.
With that said Canada is the best we have and we should encourage other countries to follow their example. Certainly across the border in the USA they do need big changes like limiting the fines for non-commercial infringement and statutory damages make for a nice fantasy world far removed from facts.
I now hope for productive improvements in the UK but I don't think that they are that keen on the subject.
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No to ACTA
Then what can I say to DVD backups being banned. Anyone with kids well knows that DVDs and young kids do not mix well. So keep the original DVD safe and burn the kids a copy they can damage all they want with a new copy available when it no longer plays right. One of many fair uses clauses I am sure.
Well this is a sad day indeed. They have obviously seen the large public protect and failure of ACTA in Europe. Now they want to sure up what remains so they hit the remaining countries hard with all opposition denied.
I can only say that we need to work hard in the remaining countries to ensure ACTA is rejected when if ACTA does hit the right numbers when it will become a live international treaty and that would be trouble. Even in a future year the EU may get ACTA when they go we will only do this for you if the EU ratifies ACTA. And with barely a whimper of protest or news story they would. So the fight to kill ACTA must be global and we must fight on a global level.
Then if you want a second reason then look at the contempt and arrogance that is coming out of TPP(A). They could have welcomed an open discussion to modernize copyright and patent laws across the globe to the benefit of many but no when this is only the demands of the few.
This is a very dangerous time where the very Internet is at stake and we should not let organizations ram through new laws so they can cut themselves a slice of control.
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I hate censorship
Hmmm their few nudes made up of ASCII characters are so hardcore, not. I would class that at about 5% of what anyone can see daily on page 3 of The Sun.
Beyond their crazy blocking of weird sites there was also a vast array of much more child inappropriate sites they did not block.
Well if they are serious on content filtering then that makes for another group of people who need to learn to use a VPN service. Just remember those school kids are quick learners and are often great with technology.
On the post: Copyright Enforcement Bots Seek And Destroy Hugo Awards
The Dogs
Copyright enforcement is totally one sided and NASA lost their Curiosity landing video because YouTube's content ID system is ultra retarded and does not even know what Public Domain is or that no one can actually copyright it. If YouTube can't even figure out that easy one then the on-line content streaming world is doomed.
Now in this Hugo Awards Ceremony case you of course have both prior approval and fair use. There simply should be no system in place even pondering taking down this stream.
What is most sad here is that this problem could be easily fixed by adding an automatic fine to a false take-down. So if they want to nuke the Hugo Awards again they get an automatic fine of $10,000, $20,000 or $50,000. Sure enough if UStream gets a fine like that they would sh*t bricks and forever more their system would not even try to remove content unless they were completely certain.
The main problem is that content rights are still stuck in the 19th century. There was no way these Hugo Awards could flag online their prior consent to use these clips. Neither could they flag an even larger Awards Ceremony setting granting a fair use status.
So all that can happen is that you, myself, or an automated bot can look at the video and draw our own conclusions without a single scrap of proof to back it up.
I would even go as far to say the whole content protection system including the DMCA should be taken down until such a time that it is technically worthy to be on the Internet. I would add content hashes, public domain, creative commons, fair use, approval token trading, and yes FINES for improper settings and take-down abuse.
This content match system is the dog's bollocks. If that is the best these rights owners can come up with leading to a content bombing campaign then it is no surprise that the file sharing community runs technical rings around them.
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Talking to The Brick Wall
Well if they are there for 10 days then presentations from 8am to 8pm would result in 825 presentations at 8 minutes each including one hour off for lunch.
More likely the public time is one day, the hours are shorter meaning under 82 presentations, then for the other 9 days those TPP people will get a luxury stay including hookers and blackjack.
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Little Devils
Judge Beryl Howell is clearly one of these people being a pro-copyright shill now working hard to turn back the court rulings of other Judges. A nice position for her to hammer away at evil infringers, innocent or guilty, or just people who get in her way.
I can only hope that other Judges see Beryl Howell for who she really is and they take steps to minimise her political interference in the Justice system.
To make matters worse Judge Beryl Howell is clearly disillusional where as seen above many things is quotes is totally against known reality. I am not even sure if that makes her dangerous or harmless when that depends on what other Judges let her get away with.
In any case I hope people do vote out Obama just so we can get rid or Joe Biden and other people like Judge Beryl Howell would soon be replaced as well. That is US politics for you.
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