Dotcom's family treated like terrorists - lawyer

4/09/2012 10:09:05 a.m.

dennis wrote:

Andy Griffith: "I don’t think that we any of us ever overtly thought about that. I wanted to keep the characters clean. If a joke would make a liar out of a character we’d throw the joke out and that became very important, it became a basic rule, and because of the nature of the show, morality just came right along with it…. As Bob Sweeney used to say it looks like an ordinary little town but it has a little border of insanity around it”

3/09/2012 9:02:49 a.m.

dennis wrote:

How does the court calculate the extent of restraint without first deducting whatever the accused had before the alleged copyright offending occurred? Doesn't it come back to reading the law "in context" as noted by His Honour Judge Harvey and not clinging to out-of-context sections of statute to claim spurious jurisdiction?

2/09/2012 9:40:55 a.m.

dennis wrote:

“The document, released by the courts, claims the now-defunct file-sharing company Megaupload had copies of Love Birds, starring Rhys Darby, and Tracker, starring Temuera Morrison, on its servers” (NZ Herald). This information was presented as evidence to provide “reasonable grounds to believe” that warrants were valid, obviously inferring that this section of the Copyright Act is breached: “Every person commits an offence against this section who, other than pursuant to a copyright licence possesses in the course of a business with a view to committing any act infringing the copyright an object that is, and that the person knows is, an infringing copy of a copyright work”. There were 800 file transfers completing every second at the time. That is 48,000 a minute. 2.9 million an hour. 69 million a day. Half a billion a week. Was this explained in the Court application along with the intention to carry firearms?