I don't think anyone has any problem with this persay, it's more the fact the money and goods are being taken from people without cases being brought against people, the items are found guilty, point and case is the suit brought against (And I am not making this up)US Govenment Vs $124,700
There should be due process, Yes sieze the money, but a case MUST be brought against the owner, if convicted and found guilty they the items are gone and become property of the state to be used to help people that are victims of crime seeing as the products are a result of said crime.
If found innocent then the defendent get's it all back, 100% of it.
There is no such place, the so called experts that have appeared on new sites in America have been shot down in amazing fashion when in the same sentence he proclaimed that Birmingham was a no go zone, I mean come on, I was in birmingham recently, it's not a no go zone, the place is a huge city.
Yes there are area's within the UK such as places in London where the population is mostly non english but that doesn't make them no go zones, if anything there was quite a parody made of it afterwards.
It would be nice if you could back up your claim of locations in london where Sharea Law rules?
Doubt it, Somehow the label will get the rights, if the rights are assigned to a label, and it's 70 years after death, does that mean we have to wait for the industry to fail then 70 years later all his songs go in to the public domain?
if it were me and I did things differently, I would have filed charges against every one of the persons caught with the drugs or such, anyone else would have been free to go without any seasure.
The difference between the number of car's stopped, quantity of drugs located, and the number of people charged is way off.
I law was designed with best intentions, but when departments start creating shopping lists or basing their budget around asset forfiture then it's not being applied correctly.
It's about time someone finally stood up to MPAA and RIAA goons.
For too long have they attacked anything they don't understand, prime example will be Jack Valenti claiming that the VCR was as bad as the Boston Strangler, RIAA claiming MP3 players will kill music.
Why in this day and age, do I have to pay a tax for every blank media I may buy that is a copyright tax because it might be used for copyrighted media?
I've donated what I can afford to help, from over the pond looking a lot of these types of cases from outside the US, I wonder how things have gone one like this for soo long, it's obvious to see that the system get's abused by the people that can afford it.
Ironicly it was Mike that said (Paraphrasing here) Even if you don't like what is being said you should still feel offended and worried about the attacks against their free speech.
Who will you turn to when a precedence is set and someone takes offence to what your saying, will what you say be protected by Free Speech when someone doesn't like you or what you say in general?
Although being across the pond we don't see this as much, I've bought an insider membership to help you out and have shared the article, if you do setup a legal fund I will be more than happy to donate to it.
We also need the Popehat torch to be lit and get every lawyer in defence of this to help make a stand, if this goes the wrong way it will open a floodgate of lawsuits against anyone over anything they don't like.
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There should be due process, Yes sieze the money, but a case MUST be brought against the owner, if convicted and found guilty they the items are gone and become property of the state to be used to help people that are victims of crime seeing as the products are a result of said crime.
If found innocent then the defendent get's it all back, 100% of it.
That's how it should work but it doesn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U.S._Currency
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Yes there are area's within the UK such as places in London where the population is mostly non english but that doesn't make them no go zones, if anything there was quite a parody made of it afterwards.
It would be nice if you could back up your claim of locations in london where Sharea Law rules?
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The difference between the number of car's stopped, quantity of drugs located, and the number of people charged is way off.
I law was designed with best intentions, but when departments start creating shopping lists or basing their budget around asset forfiture then it's not being applied correctly.
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About time
For too long have they attacked anything they don't understand, prime example will be Jack Valenti claiming that the VCR was as bad as the Boston Strangler, RIAA claiming MP3 players will kill music.
Why in this day and age, do I have to pay a tax for every blank media I may buy that is a copyright tax because it might be used for copyrighted media?
Hopefully other countries will follow suit soon.
Sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/01/18/thirty-years-before-sopa-mpaa-feared- the-vcr/#1d7a73c25c8d
http://www.mtv.com/news/1433638/riaa-files-suits-to-halt-sale-of-portable-mp3-p layer/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
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A little support from over the pond
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Who will you turn to when a precedence is set and someone takes offence to what your saying, will what you say be protected by Free Speech when someone doesn't like you or what you say in general?
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For the fight ahead
We also need the Popehat torch to be lit and get every lawyer in defence of this to help make a stand, if this goes the wrong way it will open a floodgate of lawsuits against anyone over anything they don't like.
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