"On 18 November 2010, prosecutor Marianne Ny asked the local district court for a warrant for the arrest of Assange in order for him to be interviewed by the prosecutor"
"Assange has not yet been formally charged with any offence; the prosecutor said that, in accordance with the Swedish legal system, formal charges will be laid only after extradition and a second round of questioning."
There are several questions that are quite concerning in this Julian Assange case.
1. When have we EVER heard extradition being used for simple questioning? Clearly extradition should only be used for serious crimes when look at the huge resources wasted here just to ask him some bloody questions.
2. For this reason EU law allows people the option to be remotely questioned. So then why is it that the Swedish authority has constantly denied remote questioning and even refuse to offer an explanation why?
3. If the Swedish authority is wanting answers to questions, the very nature of the arrest warrant, then why do they constantly refuse to ask Mr Assange these questions? It would be logical from the answers given if there is a case for him to answer to or if it should be dropped. Then at least they could issue an arrest warrant for an actual crime.
4. Due to valid concerns about Julian's extradition to the United States for this journalist and publisher to be falsely charged under Espionage Law (and like Bradley Manning to be kept in isolation 23 hours a day for over a year and stripped naked in front of others) then why does the Swedish Authority constantly refuse to offer any reassurance that Julian Assange would not be subject to secondary extradition? One promise and Ecuador would allow his extradition.
5. Why does the United States have an indictment already prepared to change Julian and why does the FBI keep a 42,135 page file on him? These are known and provable facts.
These seems only one answer here. The only missing piece is that in the UK Julian cannot be extradited to the USA for Wikileaks releasing the US Diplomatic cables but in Sweden they can.
Then we need to ask what is the role of the two women involved in this?
Well thanks to Wikileaks we now know about the secret War the US was having, how there was state sponsored human rights abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how Obama has directly blocked the former Bush administration being investigated and charged with War Crimes.
This was clearly UPS's fault who did a shit job that badly changed the labels. Both Amazon and this 3rd party seller are fully innocent when they never handled or shipped this assault rifle.
I only find it sad that the receiver did not keep his mouth shut when no one would have known he received it. He could then have sold this rifle on to someone who could lawfully use it for up to $1500. As his lost TV only cost $300 then he would have been $1200 richer.
Still I doubt that would be lawful when while you can lawfully keep items sellers send you by mistake, clearly in this case this package was addressed to another, and it only ended up at his address due to a courier mistake. So in the end he did do the lawfully correct thing even if he missed that $1200 profit.
I can only wonder if this rifle will ever arrive at the correct address when the Police want this store owner to travel across half the country to collect it. They should ideally have slapped around UPS for losing two packages and to have them fix it.
This ruling is sure nice to hear and I only hope it stands up on appeal. I am also somewhat surprised to hear such a ruling in this age of blame everyone else but the actual infringer like ISPs and linking or announcement sites.
What also comes to mind is a certain movie streaming site I know that streams infringing movies hosted on other servers and what I considered to be a prime MPAA target. Well what do you know when based on this ruling neither their linked streaming nor the visitor viewing is actual infringement when only the original uploader and server owner could be.
What is not mentioned here is that the DoJ/FBI are appealing against this ruling along with every other ruling that went against them. That means that they have no lawful reason to comply with this court ruling until the appeals process has been exhausted. That may well go up to the Supreme Court when the DoJ/FBI do not give in easily.
In all until it has been ruled otherwise we can say that the FBI did unlawfully copy these HDDs and are now unlawfully holding on to Kim's property. Unfortunately as they disagree the wheels of Justice turns very slowly which is what they hope for when Mega dies more as every day passes.
The FBI certainly tapped the Skype calls of the Mega employees when they say as much in the Mega indictment. What they do not say was if this Skype invasion was done under a court order or not.
Richard O'Dwyer I suspect needs a few more years of relationship development before he stands much hope of knocking up a girl. Too many years stuck on computer on a forever alone path.
Still wives and kids have never been a factor when it comes to the RIAA and MPAA. We may recall Capital Records versus Jammie Thomas-Rasset a single mom of 3 kids. Or how about the MPAA/DoJ/FBI wanting to charge Kim's wife even if she was never a director in Mega. Kim was also lucky the Judge allowed him home to be there for the birth of his twins when guess who never wanted him released.
So I don't think it would work well for copyright meaning that Richard would need to murder someone in the US first before he could try for that defence.
I am sure most people simply did it for a laugh to exile Pitbull to the most remote Walmart location known. It is good to see that Pitbull laughs at this also.
This is a win situation for everyone. 70k+ people had a laugh, Pitbull gets a nice trip even if cold & remote, he becomes more famous, the locals will enjoy the visit, the store gets huge publicity, then Walmart has just had a very successful campaign to advertise their services.
That case has already been seen in on-line gambling sites when the USA has banned this business. Most European gambling sites ceased dealing with all USA aspects as a result but three of these sites I recall did not still welcoming US gamblers, their money, and even advertising to them in the US.
The result was that ICE seized their domains, their US based assets and accounts, then the DoJ started criminal action against them. I only don't know what happened after that.
Such gambling sites are unfortunately lawful in Europe including here in the UK but the USA still ATTACKED them because they still traded business with the US.
They have now done the same with MegaUpload. I would say US unlawful Japanese porn is also an option but keep in mind gambling sites are money (against Las Vegas etc) and MegaUpload is money (against Hollywood MPAA/RIAA) but this questionable porn would have so few US porn dealers care any so it is not a money matter.
It is always nice [sic] to see the United States always try to claim ownership of everything. Try ancient Greece of about 776BC in Olympia and done for many years since to honour Zeus.
As to the words then try (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια – ta Olympia), (Modern Greek: Ὀλυμπιακοὶ Ἀγῶνες [Katharevousa], Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες [Dimotiki] – Olympiakoi Agones)
The modern Olympics may own the rings but as to the word they should go and run and jump. I am sure Greece will have issues with the US trying to claim rights to their land and to their history.
This is not that uncommon though. For many years the UK Government just transposed EU directive after EU directive into UK law using the SI system with little oversight.
That was all about harmonizing EU laws across all EU countries though where things can go out of sync if member countries start objecting.
We can see though that more and more powers will shift to European level in the long term.
Here we have a country that likes to obtain too many bad political ideas from the United States. Already they have gave us the 3-strikes DEA and these were the people all to keen to join ACTA had not the European Parliament stopped them.
I don't know why they are bothering with this short-cut, beyond some future emergency use, when the UK is still a country where the Copyright Cartels, like with the BPI, have the upper hand. Public protest in growing along with the UK Pirate Party but more UK citizens sure need to wake up and to get mobilized.
So they can already pass nearly any bad copyright legislation they want and the only people who have managed to stop them so far live in Europe. I would not say these MPs are the dumb kind but it is all too easy for Government to sucker them up.
Yes copyright sure is the one area that requires lots of debate, along with careful and wise changes, but it is sure telling that these days countries can't even trust their own Parliaments which also means we have these Copyright Cartels on the run.
When starting to read this article I imagined a local trip to TPB or other related site would flash up this logo warning, or at least linked into Google some how, or failing that a nice logo on all blank media.
Nope they can only stick it on their own media naturally where this only highlights how pointless and annoying it would be. DVDs and Blurays already have plenty if logos and "don't do this and that" threats so I would be surprised if they could find the extra logo space.
Well what can I say when the DoJ and FBI are now on the case against copyright infringement. Civil cases of course now enforced by the United States government or so this logo seems to wrongly indicate.
Yes but it shows great disrespect to the whole Democratic process, and the will of the people, to just sign up without putting it through the US Congress and Mexican Senate.
The only good point in all this is that no country including the United States have yet tried to ratify ACTA. They are simply waiting to see how this one goes and how many of their cities break out in riots or better yet peaceful protest.
This is all like a game of chess where each side make their move and counter-move. You can rest assured that even if Mexico did sign up to ACTA today that there will be many people in Mexico today who are deeply unhappy. I can only ask... What are you going to do about it?
Well I am someone who usually likes Mexican food but today that seems quite unappetizing.
To be honest I am looking forwards to seeing how this one goes and I now await further news.
Wikileaks were of course attacked by the US Administration who ordered these financial services of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to terminate all support to Wikileaks. Not to forget that attack on Julian of course.
So this means this itsy bitsy Iceland court and Judge is now going head to head with the entire US Administration. Viva the little guy and all that.
My main point would be that Valitor is only the Iceland branch of the global Visa and is certainly not the Visa administration based in the United States. So the more serious question is if larger US Visa would allow Valitor to do this knowing the US Administration have demanded they cease Wikileaks support. Well if the US Visa still say no they risk losing their business to Iceland.
I think what we have here is a good old diplomatic incident and what is more telling is that the European Commission will look at this case very closely and will want to see what the United States does next knowing that by August they could throw themselves into those same jaws.
We can see what the World is coming to when a business owner like myself rarely receives through the mail sales flyers for clearly stated replica products.
Sun glass, handbags, scarves and the like all with popular brand name logos.
On the post: August 17 - 23, 1997
HTTP what?
To be fair then HTTP made the Internet pretty. Functionality was slowly added in during following versions.
I remember those web years when finding a good WYSIWYG program was sure not easy and I soon gave up and just wrote code manually in notepad.
On the post: The Same Day Russia Sentences Pussy Riot, It Condemns The UK Over Julian Assange
Re: Re: No wonder Old Media is dying -- lol -- will piss on their grave
You had best read up to get your facts straight...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority
"On 18 November 2010, prosecutor Marianne Ny asked the local district court for a warrant for the arrest of Assange in order for him to be interviewed by the prosecutor"
"Assange has not yet been formally charged with any offence; the prosecutor said that, in accordance with the Swedish legal system, formal charges will be laid only after extradition and a second round of questioning."
On the post: The Same Day Russia Sentences Pussy Riot, It Condemns The UK Over Julian Assange
Political corruption
1. When have we EVER heard extradition being used for simple questioning? Clearly extradition should only be used for serious crimes when look at the huge resources wasted here just to ask him some bloody questions.
2. For this reason EU law allows people the option to be remotely questioned. So then why is it that the Swedish authority has constantly denied remote questioning and even refuse to offer an explanation why?
3. If the Swedish authority is wanting answers to questions, the very nature of the arrest warrant, then why do they constantly refuse to ask Mr Assange these questions? It would be logical from the answers given if there is a case for him to answer to or if it should be dropped. Then at least they could issue an arrest warrant for an actual crime.
4. Due to valid concerns about Julian's extradition to the United States for this journalist and publisher to be falsely charged under Espionage Law (and like Bradley Manning to be kept in isolation 23 hours a day for over a year and stripped naked in front of others) then why does the Swedish Authority constantly refuse to offer any reassurance that Julian Assange would not be subject to secondary extradition? One promise and Ecuador would allow his extradition.
5. Why does the United States have an indictment already prepared to change Julian and why does the FBI keep a 42,135 page file on him? These are known and provable facts.
These seems only one answer here. The only missing piece is that in the UK Julian cannot be extradited to the USA for Wikileaks releasing the US Diplomatic cables but in Sweden they can.
Then we need to ask what is the role of the two women involved in this?
Well thanks to Wikileaks we now know about the secret War the US was having, how there was state sponsored human rights abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how Obama has directly blocked the former Bush administration being investigated and charged with War Crimes.
On the post: Honest Mistake: Order A TV From Amazon, Receive An Illegal Assault Rifle
Missing a TV
I only find it sad that the receiver did not keep his mouth shut when no one would have known he received it. He could then have sold this rifle on to someone who could lawfully use it for up to $1500. As his lost TV only cost $300 then he would have been $1200 richer.
Still I doubt that would be lawful when while you can lawfully keep items sellers send you by mistake, clearly in this case this package was addressed to another, and it only ended up at his address due to a courier mistake. So in the end he did do the lawfully correct thing even if he missed that $1200 profit.
I can only wonder if this rifle will ever arrive at the correct address when the Police want this store owner to travel across half the country to collect it. They should ideally have slapped around UPS for losing two packages and to have them fix it.
On the post: Judge Posner: Embedding Infringing Videos Is Not Copyright Infringement, And Neither Is Watching Them
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: Judge Posner: Embedding Infringing Videos Is Not Copyright Infringement, And Neither Is Watching Them
Nice
What also comes to mind is a certain movie streaming site I know that streams infringing movies hosted on other servers and what I considered to be a prime MPAA target. Well what do you know when based on this ruling neither their linked streaming nor the visitor viewing is actual infringement when only the original uploader and server owner could be.
On the post: US Has Ignored New Zealand Court Order To Return Data It Seized From Megaupload
appeals
In all until it has been ruled otherwise we can say that the FBI did unlawfully copy these HDDs and are now unlawfully holding on to Kim's property. Unfortunately as they disagree the wheels of Justice turns very slowly which is what they hope for when Mega dies more as every day passes.
On the post: Skype No Longer Willing To Claim That Its Calls Are Untappable By Law Enforcement
Skype calls recorded
On the post: Terrorists And Pedophiles Get More Protection In UK Than Guy Who Hosted Links To TV Shows
Murder less than Copyright
Still wives and kids have never been a factor when it comes to the RIAA and MPAA. We may recall Capital Records versus Jammie Thomas-Rasset a single mom of 3 kids. Or how about the MPAA/DoJ/FBI wanting to charge Kim's wife even if she was never a director in Mega. Kim was also lucky the Judge allowed him home to be there for the birth of his twins when guess who never wanted him released.
So I don't think it would work well for copyright meaning that Richard would need to murder someone in the US first before he could try for that defence.
On the post: The Internet Wins Again! Writer Gets Rapper Pitbull 'Exiled' To Alaskan Walmart
All Win
This is a win situation for everyone. 70k+ people had a laugh, Pitbull gets a nice trip even if cold & remote, he becomes more famous, the locals will enjoy the visit, the store gets huge publicity, then Walmart has just had a very successful campaign to advertise their services.
On the post: Megaupload To DOJ: You Don't Get To Make Up The Rules That Suit You
Re: Re: Re: Re:
The result was that ICE seized their domains, their US based assets and accounts, then the DoJ started criminal action against them. I only don't know what happened after that.
Such gambling sites are unfortunately lawful in Europe including here in the UK but the USA still ATTACKED them because they still traded business with the US.
They have now done the same with MegaUpload. I would say US unlawful Japanese porn is also an option but keep in mind gambling sites are money (against Las Vegas etc) and MegaUpload is money (against Hollywood MPAA/RIAA) but this questionable porn would have so few US porn dealers care any so it is not a money matter.
On the post: US Olympic Committee Forces 30 Year Old Philidelphia Gyro Restaraunt To Change Its Name
Hmmm
As to the words then try (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια – ta Olympia), (Modern Greek: Ὀλυμπιακοὶ Ἀγῶνες [Katharevousa], Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες [Dimotiki] – Olympiakoi Agones)
The modern Olympics may own the rings but as to the word they should go and run and jump. I am sure Greece will have issues with the US trying to claim rights to their land and to their history.
On the post: UK Government Wants To Give Itself Power To Change Copyright Law Without Full Parliamentary Scrutiny
Re:
That was all about harmonizing EU laws across all EU countries though where things can go out of sync if member countries start objecting.
We can see though that more and more powers will shift to European level in the long term.
On the post: UK Government Wants To Give Itself Power To Change Copyright Law Without Full Parliamentary Scrutiny
Cannot be trusted
Here we have a country that likes to obtain too many bad political ideas from the United States. Already they have gave us the 3-strikes DEA and these were the people all to keen to join ACTA had not the European Parliament stopped them.
I don't know why they are bothering with this short-cut, beyond some future emergency use, when the UK is still a country where the Copyright Cartels, like with the BPI, have the upper hand. Public protest in growing along with the UK Pirate Party but more UK citizens sure need to wake up and to get mobilized.
So they can already pass nearly any bad copyright legislation they want and the only people who have managed to stop them so far live in Europe. I would not say these MPs are the dumb kind but it is all too easy for Government to sucker them up.
Yes copyright sure is the one area that requires lots of debate, along with careful and wise changes, but it is sure telling that these days countries can't even trust their own Parliaments which also means we have these Copyright Cartels on the run.
On the post: Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks
Re: Iceland
Got to love Iceland. LOL
On the post: FBI Wants To Make It Easier For You To Tell Your Customers They Might Be Felonious Pirates
Useless
Nope they can only stick it on their own media naturally where this only highlights how pointless and annoying it would be. DVDs and Blurays already have plenty if logos and "don't do this and that" threats so I would be surprised if they could find the extra logo space.
Well what can I say when the DoJ and FBI are now on the case against copyright infringement. Civil cases of course now enforced by the United States government or so this logo seems to wrongly indicate.
On the post: Rewind: Mexico Surprises Everyone, Signs ACTA
Re:
On the post: Rewind: Mexico Surprises Everyone, Signs ACTA
Re: They're just following our example
The only good point in all this is that no country including the United States have yet tried to ratify ACTA. They are simply waiting to see how this one goes and how many of their cities break out in riots or better yet peaceful protest.
This is all like a game of chess where each side make their move and counter-move. You can rest assured that even if Mexico did sign up to ACTA today that there will be many people in Mexico today who are deeply unhappy. I can only ask... What are you going to do about it?
Well I am someone who usually likes Mexican food but today that seems quite unappetizing.
On the post: Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks
Wikileaks were of course attacked by the US Administration who ordered these financial services of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to terminate all support to Wikileaks. Not to forget that attack on Julian of course.
So this means this itsy bitsy Iceland court and Judge is now going head to head with the entire US Administration. Viva the little guy and all that.
My main point would be that Valitor is only the Iceland branch of the global Visa and is certainly not the Visa administration based in the United States. So the more serious question is if larger US Visa would allow Valitor to do this knowing the US Administration have demanded they cease Wikileaks support. Well if the US Visa still say no they risk losing their business to Iceland.
I think what we have here is a good old diplomatic incident and what is more telling is that the European Commission will look at this case very closely and will want to see what the United States does next knowing that by August they could throw themselves into those same jaws.
Well all I can say is... pass the popcorn.
On the post: Who's Running A Big Counterfeit Ring For Hermes Bags? Apparently Hermes Employees
Replica
Sun glass, handbags, scarves and the like all with popular brand name logos.
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