Similar thing happened in The Netherlands, where BREIN took the hard drives of an alledged torrent site.
The datacenter (WorldStream) that housed the serverracks of webhoster AlTransa, is located in The Netherlands, but that datacenter didn't own the racks.
The owner of the racks (and the hosting party itself), Craig Salmond, resides in Costa Rica.
But, nonetheless, the datacenter gave over the servers to BREIN, after BREIN came by and threatened the datacenter people.
A single email was sent to mr. Salmond to notify him that his servers would be confiscated, on the suspicion of hosting a torrentsite called Swan.
No judge was involved with this server raid, making it a theft of hardware by BREIN, aided by Worldstream.
And instead of a police investigation, BREIN decided it would investigate the server hardware itself. Keeping up its claim that it found illegal content on the server hardware. But I think their actions make any evidence they bring forward in a court of law, out of the confiscated hardware, inadmissible, if it ever comes to a lawsuit.
"C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?"
FEA has no leg to stand on. "Unfollow Charlie" out of context could mean ANYTHING. Sure in the context of Charlie Sheen, it mean asking people to stop following Charlie Sheen. But what about Charlie Chaplin? Checkpoint Charlie? Find more Charlies here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie
Sheen and his publicists don't own the name "Charlie".
Oh I'm sure, but that does not mean that his grandchildren should LIVE off the benefits of work that THEY didn't produce.
The heirs of JRR Tolkien aren't little kids or orphans, they are grown up adults, perfectly capable of supporting themselves, without the need for crutches made by their (grand)parents.
Are you freaking kidding me? How would this ruling destroy free speech on the Internet? It favours the fair use, thus making it easier to quote from articles and have your say about them. And if someone lifts your article and gives his comments on it, we see more examples of free speech.
Now, with the Righthaven lawsuits, it's still up in the air, and the uncertainty is a very definite chilling effect on free speech. Any ruling in favour of fair use is a win for free speech, not a loss.
I don't think that JRR Tolkien wrote his books to support his grandchildren.
But it is his estate that tries to manufacture that reality, and they seem like the real leeches, trying to scrounge off of their grandfather's works, that should've entered Public Domain many years ago.
It would indeed be nice, if StatusNet and or Friendfeed came out with a press release saying that Microblogging tool developers are more than welcome to their API.
Perhaps help crystallize it, and make it hardened for the future.
Or something like that. Let Twitter (and the rest of the world) know that there is more than just Twitter in the micro-blogging arena.
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Stetson hats suck?
Stetsons are cool, The Doctor wore one.
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btw, does www.fox.cn exist yet? :)
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Re: Freedom of Speech
Though some news stations in the past have flaunted that rule too, and declared a winner before all votes were in.
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Reminds me of AlTransa vs BREIN
The datacenter (WorldStream) that housed the serverracks of webhoster AlTransa, is located in The Netherlands, but that datacenter didn't own the racks.
The owner of the racks (and the hosting party itself), Craig Salmond, resides in Costa Rica.
But, nonetheless, the datacenter gave over the servers to BREIN, after BREIN came by and threatened the datacenter people.
A single email was sent to mr. Salmond to notify him that his servers would be confiscated, on the suspicion of hosting a torrentsite called Swan.
No judge was involved with this server raid, making it a theft of hardware by BREIN, aided by Worldstream.
And instead of a police investigation, BREIN decided it would investigate the server hardware itself. Keeping up its claim that it found illegal content on the server hardware. But I think their actions make any evidence they bring forward in a court of law, out of the confiscated hardware, inadmissible, if it ever comes to a lawsuit.
Sorry, I only have links in Dutch on this particular story:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/105793/brein-moet-in-beslag-genomen-servers-inleveren.html
htt p://webwereld.nl/nieuws/105819/aangifte-tegen-brein-om-serverdiefstal.html
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I guess I am in Congress.
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From the ESTA itself:
"C) Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?"
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/
(first click "Apply", then accept the disclaimers to see the question for yourself)
btw, filling out that Visa Waiver costs a (Non-US) visitor to the US $14 per 2 years, "to promote tourism" or so they claim.
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ironic isn't it?
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FEA has no leg to stand on
Sheen and his publicists don't own the name "Charlie".
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The heirs of JRR Tolkien aren't little kids or orphans, they are grown up adults, perfectly capable of supporting themselves, without the need for crutches made by their (grand)parents.
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Now, with the Righthaven lawsuits, it's still up in the air, and the uncertainty is a very definite chilling effect on free speech. Any ruling in favour of fair use is a win for free speech, not a loss.
Try again, troll.
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But it is his estate that tries to manufacture that reality, and they seem like the real leeches, trying to scrounge off of their grandfather's works, that should've entered Public Domain many years ago.
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Perhaps help crystallize it, and make it hardened for the future.
Or something like that. Let Twitter (and the rest of the world) know that there is more than just Twitter in the micro-blogging arena.
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