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He doesn't always disagree. Sometimes agree, but say something like "Why do you criticize company X for doing Y, when Google is a much bigger offender". Or in the article on proposed tariffs on Chinese imports, he went off on a tangent about how the author didn't mention China's use of slave labor.
John Carr (adviser on internet safety and secretary of a children’s charities coalition): “Google can do more and should do more.”
Technically, this is true. Google could hire more humans to try to identify more such material. They could hire an army of such people, and army so big that their profit margin would drop to zero. The questions are:
1) How much should a private company be required by law to do?
2) What sort of measurement do you use to determine if what a company is doing enough? If the answer is "no illegal porn at all", that would force search engines to stop using web crawlers/spiders and instead manually review each website before including it. And force them to not include sites with user provided content.
I agree with Franklin G Ryzzo that it isn't entrapment. It'd be like if you put a table on the sidewalk in front of your house, put a bunch of jewelry/books/whatever on it, put up a sign saying "Free stuff"... and then accused anyone who took anything of theft. It's not entrapment because what those people did wasn't a crime.
Maybe he'll try to claim that an IP address can only be used to identify downloaders, and can't be used to identify uploaders? It seems like the sort of thing the Prendateers might say.
Reading through those tweets, I sometimes thought "this has to be someone pretending to be Steele. I mean, he can't really be that stupid". But since I don't know him personally, maybe he is that stupid.
Although, in the United States, it is only a part of common law and therefore not sharply defined, it is generally agreed that it can only be cited if the party in question successfully maintained its position in the earlier proceedings and benefited from it. [emphasis added]
Have Steele and friends actually benefitted in a court case from anything they've told the court?
If I recall correctly, Charles Carreon did something similar: Carreon threatened to sue, the threatened person sued for declaratory judgment, and in return Carreon implied that he'd changed his mind about suing so there was no point to a declaratory judgment.
Prenda is arguing that Alan Cooper runs AF Holdings.
In the case of AF Holdings, Prenda claims that Cooper was AF's corporate representative who signed for AF when a copyright was transferred to AF. Prenda might have claimed that Cooper was a CEO/manager of another of their shell companies, but my memory might be wrong on that.
I'm sure that Steele, out of the kindness of his heart, didn't file any charges against his good friend Alan Cooper. I'm equally sure that, since Steele isn't concerned with such trifles as money, that he didn't file any insurance claims over the destroyed/stolen property.
Those statements about "how's my porn company doing?" came out in that earlier filing, but many people noted that if Cooper was actually running the company, that's not the kind of question he would ask, so it only served to raise more questions about Prenda/Steele's involvement. So, in this filing, they try to work around that by claiming that Cooper wasn't talking about AF Holdings, but about a different company Steele was supposedly going to set up for him, but that never actually happened.
Of course, Steele just happened to forget that important detail the first time around.
At the hearing before Judge Wright at which Cooper was present, Prenda and friends were represented by at least one lawyer. Those lawyers could have cross examined Cooper then. So how was Prenda's due process denied?
Some people find legal shenanigans by lawyers to be entertaining. Just look at all of the people who follow Ken White's coverage of the Prenda story; most of them aren't involved in the whole copyright-pirate thing. And personally, I was endlessly entertained by the whole SCO v Linux reporting that Groklaw did.
"Is this the judge's job? Or is this the job of the defense? If the judge felt there was fraud here,"
Lawyers are officers of the court. It's the judge's job to investigate if he thinks that the lawyers aren't behaving as officers of the court should, and to impose sanctions if he thinks they broke the rules. In this case, the fraud involved lying to the court, so it's exactly the sort of fraud the judge should be concerned with.
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1) How much should a private company be required by law to do?
2) What sort of measurement do you use to determine if what a company is doing enough? If the answer is "no illegal porn at all", that would force search engines to stop using web crawlers/spiders and instead manually review each website before including it. And force them to not include sites with user provided content.
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Judicial estoppel
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Denied due process?
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It's legaltainment
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Denied due process?
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Lawyers are officers of the court. It's the judge's job to investigate if he thinks that the lawyers aren't behaving as officers of the court should, and to impose sanctions if he thinks they broke the rules. In this case, the fraud involved lying to the court, so it's exactly the sort of fraud the judge should be concerned with.
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