On 2012-01-20 00:18, $yTHe {C?} wrote:
Sure there is. The NZ government says "Get bent" and the extradition process gets caught up in all manner of courts. That'll happen in more than one of these cases, I'm sure.

Joseph Libuszowski, Chicago, Illinois

The larger issue here, is the fact that in the wake of this all, is raises SERIOUS questions and CONCERN over cloud based hosting/providers. While there may have been some users, engaged in questionable practices, the company seemed to be in compliance with DMCA laws as best practical. For instance under complaint 6, it is alleged that there was a single file uploaded pertaining to a Music cd by recording artist 50cent. Ok, so out of pentabytes of data on the indictment that allowed the DOJ and Feds to seize domains/servers and issue arrest warrants all without even a hearing on these matters, was supported by a single issue of what may have been copyright infringement? Furthermore, it goes on to state that since they did not register with the US copyright office as a DMCA agent till 2009, this is more evidence that these individuals were conspiring to commit criminal acts. All of this not withstanding the fact, that the majority of these individuals are NOT US citizens and the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 is an US law, that the company appears to have gone out of it's way to adequately comply with. Don't take this as that I support copyright infringement, on the contrary as an author and publisher, and someone that represents a number of entertainment artists and publishers, I do think that something should be done. But NOT at the peril of creating a dangerous precedent of allowing the Government to act in such a manner that would deprive companies and individuals of basic rights! I just question the whole timing of this, and any Political motivation behind these acts? Or what about the case of Blogetery.com not too long ago, where one post by one user caused 70,000 blogs of journalist, educators, companies and private citizens to go offline http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/blogeterycom-blogs-myster_n_650934.html? I am a little taken back by this whole thing, not because of the fact that some illegal file sharing may have been going on, but rather that hundreds of thousands of legitimate users have now lost their files. This really seems like a miscarriage of Justice, in which legitimate; entertainers, musicians, journalist, companies, lawyers, students and educators and anyone else that uses these types of services, as they were intended for [I.E. to send large files over 5-25mb that would not be able to be transferred via email] are now victims in all of this! And what is to say it cannot happen to other cloud based service(s)?

On 2012-01-19 23:17, Kenny_Naboo[+R] wrote:
My comments on SOPA would get me banned from this site.

On 2012-01-20 21:16, Perseverance *TO* wrote:

the law has been postponed due to over 15 million signing the petition

On 2012-01-29 16:52, Loyalty *TO* wrote:
We may have delayed SOPA/PIPA, but now a new law called the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is now trying to be passed in Europe. They removed the jail term for posting something, but you can be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for possessing a dozen illegally downloaded songs. To top it off, the governments have made the decision making process completely opaque.
an article on the revision of ACTA

On 2012-01-29 16:55, Agamemnon (//:CO:\\) wrote:

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On 2012-01-29 16:52, Loyalty *TO* wrote: We may have delayed SOPA/PIPA, but now a new law called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is now trying to be passed in Europe. They removed the jail term for posting something, but you can be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for possessing a dozen illegally downloaded songs. To top it off, the governments have made the decision making process completely opaque. an article on the revision of ACTA

is it just as bad as sopa?

On 2012-01-29 17:32, Axeum[Zulu 4] wrote:
I wish DS had a like button under the comments