Yes they are sure to ignore this just like anything else that does not risk their job or ends up with their head on a spike.
I think the best chance we have is to sue Theresa May in Court should she unlawfully ship him off and we prove later that he has broke no law here. She would not be so willing to risk her job and butt unless she is totally certain Richard has broke English law.
You may have missed that other sites similar to TVShack were found to be innocent in recent years. Richard O'Dwyer cannot be lawfully extradited to the USA if he has committed no crime here.
How is wanting a UK trial to prove if he has broke the law or not "cheering on a criminal"?
The FBI is being really really stupid. Unless they hand over proof soon this case will end really bad for them. I can't believe they could ever say "Mega cannot see the evidence against them"
Welcome to true US Justice. What with the entire world watching them they should be on their best behaviour with "Yes Judge, No Judge, whatever you want Judge". Not though what we see here when the FBI just keeps messing it up.
Then we can see that it is Kim Dotcom who has been doing everything right including following court rulings. As a result the court has relaxed their control and showing that Kim Dotcom can be trusted to fight the charges against him.
Well had I been in change of the FBI I would be totally peed off now and I would demand they get their act together. Not that I want the FBI to win but Kim Dotcom should have the chance to prove his innocence and not just get off the hook because US Justice is a bunch of morons who cant get their game together.
I think they should have realised that when UMG and others falsely took down the Mega Song video. People examined the facts then and soon realised UMG was in the wrong which is why YouTube soon jumped on the case and restored the video.
Then of course when Mega got raided Anonymous soon fired back in the most successful DDoS attack in their history. These people had well used MegaUpload and was very aware of the countless file/links that had been removed under DMCA. So this was clearly a step-up in the War on piracy and Anonymous was very angry as they shot back.
Well what do we have here but one chubby multi-millionaire with a shady history. To his credit though he has kept his nose clean for many years and past convictions have expired and were removed from his record. So for the most part he has been a clean living businessman who has now settled down with a wife and children.
I think the best thing I have heard Kim Dotcom say to date is that once this is over he intends to become a major funder of the EFF. Anyone who has read the news long enough well knows the countless battles the EFF have been involved with and all the good they do. Also the EFF do not have the resources to handle all worthy cases so Kim Dotcom wanting to fund them by millions would be a great thing indeed that would go on to help many thousands more people.
I do see one other aspect to this when the Internet is very good at organizing protests even to the point of Government overthrows in the Arab Spring. The problem in this though is that no natural leader emerges afterwards to take control and to bring about their goals. Kim Dotcom is a colourful and outspoken character in a leadership position and it seems to me he could easily pass into the shady world of politics. So it is true to say the file sharing world do need representatives like Kim Dotcom and maybe why his enemies saw him as such a threat.
Well the future is unknown and currently we all fight side-by-side in this War of Intellectual Activism.
From ACTA they can now see we wont want to eat their poisoned international agreement. So they want to sugar-up TPP to the point that people will want to eat it.
Come eat your poisoned food. Hmmmm tasty. Open up your mouth and in it goes. Woooo like a 9/11 aircraft into the WTC. Hmmm so sweet this beautiful poison. Down it goes and don't worry at all about society getting sick or if some company dies when our poison is only healthy and good and protects you.
I like to be a trusting person but would you really trust a lion to babysit a young child?
Good luck to him when Richard O'Dwyer sure needs our help.
I have never seen a better case than this one calling for a UK trial when no one can yet say if he has even broken a law here and everyone wanting to extradite him wants to deny him such a trial meaning that they are as doubtful as I am that he would be found guilty.
Richard in running TVShack had little reason to believe he was in violation of the law after other related sites like OiNK and FileSoup were found innocent. That is exactly why they now want to extradite instead of trial under UK law but it also means Richard's acts were not wilful.
This is not to forget that Richard has never even set foot in the United States and has never made use of a server there when the server he did use was in Spain.
So now a huge 1/350th of the entire UK population have spoken out in protest saying things here are not right. If Justice is to be served than a UK trial is what is FAIR and not to ship him off to the harsher laws of the USA.
He seems to be leaving this a bit late when the company's assets have already largely been sold off including their domain name. I don't even quite see the point of why he would want RightHaven back instead of just letting it die and to start over.
All I see is him saying "You can't do this to my company because... because... [silent sobbing]" I would expect the court to end this one quickly when he is being rather silly.
I sure hope Anton Vickerman does appeal. If what has been said above is true I would already list STC in the win group along with OiNK and FileSoup with STC simply marked as pending.
Nice to see that FACT are lying their butt off again. Nothing new there of course.
Then what can I say to all evidence coming from a USB stick that got every file changed while in FACT's not so careful hands. This idiot Judge should have had them bin it and to insist on a clean tamper free copy. As it was changed then you can only imagine a long list of programmes that could have poked, prodded and reformatted the data. Hell a change in the date does indicate that every file was modified.
All this says to me is that BlinkX provided lawful content but links to this same lawful media were added to STC. Big Media then gets mad at STC having links and uses FACT to take out a rival.
The flaw here is that this same Big Media were providing the lawful content to STC and it is their used servers which control who can access the content. So it is their content control failure which allowed links on STC to access the lawful content they put online themselves.
If you find it you can lawfully link to it. End of story... almost.
Multiple organizations wanting to control, monitor, regulate, censor or attack the Internet will be a very long battle indeed.
I see things like this when to begin with the Internet was just between college and university nerds where few much cared. Then it opened to the general public and then became a major economic forum.
Only now have those bad organizations began to realise certain facts like the trillion dollar industry, how Internet activism can overthrow Government policy or like the Arab Spring the very Governments, there is of course crime beyond infringement, then as they now realise the Internet contains a vast array of data for billions of people which only needs the right tap.
To put it directly the Internet and life as we know it is under great threat. All these people with traditional power have woken up and their eyes gleam as they pondering cutting out out their own slice of the Internet pie and how doing so would give them immense power like never before.
Do you really think your average Net citizens would sit and do nothing while the Internet as they know it now is torn apart? I can certainly tell you that more people read these technology pages for the politics of the Internet than other people do for all other forms of politics combined.
I would claim that the Internet is the greatest creation of our generation where more and more people are getting empowered as they come to realise that their actions can make change. The great War over the Internet and the revolution if not total independence is yet to come but people are indeed awake, arming up and growing in numbers by the day.
I would also expect the Pacific in TPP-A to only be related to where they are holding the talks. The aim of this agreement would be to make it global starting with western economies and where TPP-A is really being pushed by the United States.
Much is correctly said there but it is a hard case to link this Mega raid to SOPA/PIPA. While it may be true that SOPA made them more pro-active in them wanting to do a SOPA-like raid but even this shoddy planning must have taken them a month or two to map out.
That also means the start of this international corporation destruction plan began around the same time as the Mega Song fiasco. Mega giving UMG the middle finger in the UMG musicians sense sure did not help but there was also the MegaBox announcement and artists getting a 90% cut would appeal none to the RIAA.
The members of the European Commission are elected representatives and they do answer to the people who voted for them. Most are reasonable people but there are of course exceptions.
They have already well heard the protest of the citizens. This is not some trade unions in action but simple Internet folk who have been so concerned with what has been happening that thousands upon thousands have unified in protest.
The fact is that the Internet is the greatest creation of our generation spreading knowledge, understanding, happiness and peace in a global community of connected friends.
We can well see that many large organizations and Government department are attempting power grabs from information tracking to direct control and regulation.
So now we do need to fight back at people who want to attack our community with virtual sledgehammers until the Internet lies shattered and broken. We simply say to take a gentle, gentle, softly, softly approach and not to let control slip into the hands of people who do not understand the Internet and have other commercial objectives.
There is no doubt that ACTA is a bad trade agreement that has long tried hard to avoid all public accountability. ACTA certainly is about giving the copyright cartels their own personal club to regulate the Internet on a global scale with bypassing the WTO.
Bad ideas do happen like the secret ballot but then ACTA does have a few paid supporters. I am sure most MEPs though have heard enough to kick ACTA into the rubbish bin of history with a "thanks but no thanks"
This is no surprise to me when such money collecting organizations like SOZA are the worst of the worst. Go though their accounts and you should find many laws broken.
All they do is to try and extract money from all the people they can and then find ways how not to pay the musicians. So a whole of money is kept by SOZA and their management. It all falls somewhere between sad joke and extreme corruption.
As to kids singing to their mothers then to pay a fee for this right forms a contract and as we know no person under the age of 18 can enter into a contract. So any such agreement is null and void.
I just watched her blog visitor counter tick slowly past the 5 million mark. That means the total visitors have doubled since my first look at it yesterday.
Censoring this young girl just for highlighting her school meals and others from around the world was clearly wrong. It was of course the newspaper that attacked her dinnerladies and not her blog.
Not all of her photos show meals that look appetising or even healthy but her school and the local council should be happy enough that she does show a wide selection and the desire to vary her meals. So anyone reading her blog can obtain a broad picture of the general food standards.
It is just lucky for them her stray hair count has remained at zero but it has been interesting to see how her blog has resulted in canteen changes from the school and council.
Well I do see how their has been some communication break down there when it is hard for a school kid to ask for more food (in this case fruit and vegetables) from a largely unknown adult. So I can only say get stuck in there lass when it is their job to feed you.
Things have sure changed since my days at school back in the late 70s to early 80s. Back then healthy food was barely a concept when their main focus was to simply get a hot meal into you. They did have a cheese salad for the rare person but chips (french fries) and baked beans were most common.
I am glad they now see sense in letting her continue and good luck to her quest. She has been very successful so far.
I can only imagine the millions of people rushing to apply for the f**k domain as .you goes live. Also .sucks does have more than one meaning as highlighted by debbie.sucks.
I am only opposed to .sex and .porn when while it would be nice to group all adult content together to help avoid child exposure in the same regards Governments can filter out adults also.
I cannot say any of these domain extensions appeal to me for my own little Internet business.
The only thing I am left wondering is if anyone applied for .moon .luna and .mars? Clearly our species will one day be living and working off-planet and what better way to say where they are? They are obviously long time delays in getting data back so informative as well.
I have always called them the "Department of Punishment" when it fits well with that they do.
Just look at this one when they want Mega and Carpathia to be sued, they wanted users to have their data deleted, they want Mega to lose the information needed to protect themselves, then don't want Mega to have their money to pay their own lawyers.
I could do on but it is all we don't like you so punish, punish and more punish. This is of course total injustice.
Now they even go as far as "Damn the Courts and their Justice! We are the US Government and we can do anything we want!" And I so remember Obama promising us that he would respect the law much more than his predecessor did.
On the post: Will The Failures Of SOPA & ACTA Highlight The End Of The MPAA & RIAA's Disproportionate Influence On Policy?
Being a lot more open to public views would also much help them.
On the post: Poll Shows Only 9% Of UK Public Think Richard O'Dwyer Should Be Extradited
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I think the best chance we have is to sue Theresa May in Court should she unlawfully ship him off and we prove later that he has broke no law here. She would not be so willing to risk her job and butt unless she is totally certain Richard has broke English law.
On the post: Poll Shows Only 9% Of UK Public Think Richard O'Dwyer Should Be Extradited
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You may have missed that other sites similar to TVShack were found to be innocent in recent years. Richard O'Dwyer cannot be lawfully extradited to the USA if he has committed no crime here.
How is wanting a UK trial to prove if he has broke the law or not "cheering on a criminal"?
On the post: FBI Continues To Insist There's No Reason For Kim Dotcom To Be Able To See The Evidence Against Him
Idiots
Welcome to true US Justice. What with the entire world watching them they should be on their best behaviour with "Yes Judge, No Judge, whatever you want Judge". Not though what we see here when the FBI just keeps messing it up.
Then we can see that it is Kim Dotcom who has been doing everything right including following court rulings. As a result the court has relaxed their control and showing that Kim Dotcom can be trusted to fight the charges against him.
Well had I been in change of the FBI I would be totally peed off now and I would demand they get their act together. Not that I want the FBI to win but Kim Dotcom should have the chance to prove his innocence and not just get off the hook because US Justice is a bunch of morons who cant get their game together.
On the post: US Gov't And Hollywood Have Turned Kim Dotcom Into A Beloved Cult Hero
Then of course when Mega got raided Anonymous soon fired back in the most successful DDoS attack in their history. These people had well used MegaUpload and was very aware of the countless file/links that had been removed under DMCA. So this was clearly a step-up in the War on piracy and Anonymous was very angry as they shot back.
Well what do we have here but one chubby multi-millionaire with a shady history. To his credit though he has kept his nose clean for many years and past convictions have expired and were removed from his record. So for the most part he has been a clean living businessman who has now settled down with a wife and children.
I think the best thing I have heard Kim Dotcom say to date is that once this is over he intends to become a major funder of the EFF. Anyone who has read the news long enough well knows the countless battles the EFF have been involved with and all the good they do. Also the EFF do not have the resources to handle all worthy cases so Kim Dotcom wanting to fund them by millions would be a great thing indeed that would go on to help many thousands more people.
I do see one other aspect to this when the Internet is very good at organizing protests even to the point of Government overthrows in the Arab Spring. The problem in this though is that no natural leader emerges afterwards to take control and to bring about their goals. Kim Dotcom is a colourful and outspoken character in a leadership position and it seems to me he could easily pass into the shady world of politics. So it is true to say the file sharing world do need representatives like Kim Dotcom and maybe why his enemies saw him as such a threat.
Well the future is unknown and currently we all fight side-by-side in this War of Intellectual Activism.
On the post: Still Plenty To Be Concerned About With TPP
ITS POISON
Come eat your poisoned food. Hmmmm tasty. Open up your mouth and in it goes. Woooo like a 9/11 aircraft into the WTC. Hmmm so sweet this beautiful poison. Down it goes and don't worry at all about society getting sick or if some company dies when our poison is only healthy and good and protects you.
I like to be a trusting person but would you really trust a lion to babysit a young child?
On the post: Jimmy Wales Confident That UK Gov't Won't Ignore 200,000+ Signatures Against O'Dwyer Extradition
The UK shame
I have never seen a better case than this one calling for a UK trial when no one can yet say if he has even broken a law here and everyone wanting to extradite him wants to deny him such a trial meaning that they are as doubtful as I am that he would be found guilty.
Richard in running TVShack had little reason to believe he was in violation of the law after other related sites like OiNK and FileSoup were found innocent. That is exactly why they now want to extradite instead of trial under UK law but it also means Richard's acts were not wilful.
This is not to forget that Richard has never even set foot in the United States and has never made use of a server there when the server he did use was in Spain.
So now a huge 1/350th of the entire UK population have spoken out in protest saying things here are not right. If Justice is to be served than a UK trial is what is FAIR and not to ship him off to the harsher laws of the USA.
On the post: Former Righthaven CEO Fights Back; Claims As The Manager Of The Manager Of Righthaven He's Still In Power
Silliness
All I see is him saying "You can't do this to my company because... because... [silent sobbing]" I would expect the court to end this one quickly when he is being rather silly.
On the post: Anonymous Courtroom Notes Raise Serious Questions About SurfTheChannel Conviction
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Nice to see that FACT are lying their butt off again. Nothing new there of course.
Then what can I say to all evidence coming from a USB stick that got every file changed while in FACT's not so careful hands. This idiot Judge should have had them bin it and to insist on a clean tamper free copy. As it was changed then you can only imagine a long list of programmes that could have poked, prodded and reformatted the data. Hell a change in the date does indicate that every file was modified.
On the post: Anonymous Courtroom Notes Raise Serious Questions About SurfTheChannel Conviction
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The flaw here is that this same Big Media were providing the lawful content to STC and it is their used servers which control who can access the content. So it is their content control failure which allowed links on STC to access the lawful content they put online themselves.
If you find it you can lawfully link to it. End of story... almost.
On the post: Another One Bites The Dust: Australian Parliament Committee Recommends Rejecting ACTA
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I see things like this when to begin with the Internet was just between college and university nerds where few much cared. Then it opened to the general public and then became a major economic forum.
Only now have those bad organizations began to realise certain facts like the trillion dollar industry, how Internet activism can overthrow Government policy or like the Arab Spring the very Governments, there is of course crime beyond infringement, then as they now realise the Internet contains a vast array of data for billions of people which only needs the right tap.
To put it directly the Internet and life as we know it is under great threat. All these people with traditional power have woken up and their eyes gleam as they pondering cutting out out their own slice of the Internet pie and how doing so would give them immense power like never before.
Do you really think your average Net citizens would sit and do nothing while the Internet as they know it now is torn apart? I can certainly tell you that more people read these technology pages for the politics of the Internet than other people do for all other forms of politics combined.
I would claim that the Internet is the greatest creation of our generation where more and more people are getting empowered as they come to realise that their actions can make change. The great War over the Internet and the revolution if not total independence is yet to come but people are indeed awake, arming up and growing in numbers by the day.
On the post: Another One Bites The Dust: Australian Parliament Committee Recommends Rejecting ACTA
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm Confused
I would also expect the Pacific in TPP-A to only be related to where they are holding the talks. The aim of this agreement would be to make it global starting with western economies and where TPP-A is really being pushed by the United States.
On the post: Yet Another (Yes Another) Error In Megaupload Case: Search Warrants Ruled Illegal
Mega SOPA
That also means the start of this international corporation destruction plan began around the same time as the Mega Song fiasco. Mega giving UMG the middle finger in the UMG musicians sense sure did not help but there was also the MegaBox announcement and artists getting a 90% cut would appeal none to the RIAA.
On the post: ACTA Not Dead Yet: Supporters Make Final Push For EU Approval, May Seek Secret Ballot
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On the post: ACTA Not Dead Yet: Supporters Make Final Push For EU Approval, May Seek Secret Ballot
Falling
The members of the European Commission are elected representatives and they do answer to the people who voted for them. Most are reasonable people but there are of course exceptions.
They have already well heard the protest of the citizens. This is not some trade unions in action but simple Internet folk who have been so concerned with what has been happening that thousands upon thousands have unified in protest.
The fact is that the Internet is the greatest creation of our generation spreading knowledge, understanding, happiness and peace in a global community of connected friends.
We can well see that many large organizations and Government department are attempting power grabs from information tracking to direct control and regulation.
So now we do need to fight back at people who want to attack our community with virtual sledgehammers until the Internet lies shattered and broken. We simply say to take a gentle, gentle, softly, softly approach and not to let control slip into the hands of people who do not understand the Internet and have other commercial objectives.
There is no doubt that ACTA is a bad trade agreement that has long tried hard to avoid all public accountability. ACTA certainly is about giving the copyright cartels their own personal club to regulate the Internet on a global scale with bypassing the WTO.
Bad ideas do happen like the secret ballot but then ACTA does have a few paid supporters. I am sure most MEPs though have heard enough to kick ACTA into the rubbish bin of history with a "thanks but no thanks"
On the post: Slovak Collecting Society Sends Village Invoice For Singing Folk Song About Itself
Corrupt
All they do is to try and extract money from all the people they can and then find ways how not to pay the musicians. So a whole of money is kept by SOZA and their management. It all falls somewhere between sad joke and extreme corruption.
As to kids singing to their mothers then to pay a fee for this right forms a contract and as we know no person under the age of 18 can enter into a contract. So any such agreement is null and void.
On the post: US Continues To Try To Block Megaupload From Using Its Lawyers, Pretends It Has Jurisdiction Over The World
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You have been a bad boy.
A very very bad boy.
A bad boy you are.
Such a bad bad boy you are.
Bad boy, bad boy, a very very bad boy.
And then they whack you with a stick.
That in a very crude way sums up the DoJ.
On the post: The Streisand Effect Wins Again: Scottish Council Reverses Ban On 9-Year Old Blogging About School Lunches
Victory
Censoring this young girl just for highlighting her school meals and others from around the world was clearly wrong. It was of course the newspaper that attacked her dinnerladies and not her blog.
Not all of her photos show meals that look appetising or even healthy but her school and the local council should be happy enough that she does show a wide selection and the desire to vary her meals. So anyone reading her blog can obtain a broad picture of the general food standards.
It is just lucky for them her stray hair count has remained at zero but it has been interesting to see how her blog has resulted in canteen changes from the school and council.
Well I do see how their has been some communication break down there when it is hard for a school kid to ask for more food (in this case fruit and vegetables) from a largely unknown adult. So I can only say get stuck in there lass when it is their job to feed you.
Things have sure changed since my days at school back in the late 70s to early 80s. Back then healthy food was barely a concept when their main focus was to simply get a hot meal into you. They did have a cheese salad for the rare person but chips (french fries) and baked beans were most common.
I am glad they now see sense in letting her continue and good luck to her quest. She has been very successful so far.
On the post: .Rip .Off: Highlights From The Top-Level Domain Scrum
TLDs
I am only opposed to .sex and .porn when while it would be nice to group all adult content together to help avoid child exposure in the same regards Governments can filter out adults also.
I cannot say any of these domain extensions appeal to me for my own little Internet business.
The only thing I am left wondering is if anyone applied for .moon .luna and .mars? Clearly our species will one day be living and working off-planet and what better way to say where they are? They are obviously long time delays in getting data back so informative as well.
On the post: The DOJ's Truly Disgusting Argument For Denying A Megaupload User Access To His Legal Content
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Just look at this one when they want Mega and Carpathia to be sued, they wanted users to have their data deleted, they want Mega to lose the information needed to protect themselves, then don't want Mega to have their money to pay their own lawyers.
I could do on but it is all we don't like you so punish, punish and more punish. This is of course total injustice.
Now they even go as far as "Damn the Courts and their Justice! We are the US Government and we can do anything we want!" And I so remember Obama promising us that he would respect the law much more than his predecessor did.
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