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"This site is not anywhere near "the primary purpose of the online location is to infringe, or to facilitate the infringement of, copyright". This has nothing to do with copyright."

You are right, but this is how it works: Bully's lawyers send ISP a threat for a massive law suit. ISP weighs up threat for a massive law suit against the loss of one customer who they make only small change off anyway. ISP axes customer. Bully is happy. ISP relieved. Customer is screwed but can't do anything but suck it down.
Law = Whoever has the most money wins. http://www.crimemagazine.com/e...

The US military is the only entity that has actually ever carried out attacks like this

I would say his concern is well founded.

And your claim is nonsense. Consider the case of Vasili Blokhin, for instance. General Vasili Blokhin pressed a "button" (trigger) and killed the Polish army officer corp. (Admittedly he pressed that "button" repeatedly.) This was around the time that the Soviet Union confiscated food from the Ukraine to artificially create a famine and kill 7,000,000 people by the slow death of starvation. (Death was quicker for the people that walked into the grain fields to pluck some grain to eat - they were shot on the spot.)

The Katyn Massacre

In March 1940, General Blokhin personally executed all 8,000 of the captured Polish officers on 28 consecutive nights in a basement execution chamber at the Soviet secret police headquarters in Kalinin. The soundproof room was specially constructed for the murders, with a sloping concrete floor and a hose to wash away the blood.

One at a time – 250 a day – each of the Polish officers was led into the room in handcuffs, where Blokhin awaited in a butcher’s apron, cap and shoulder-length leather gloves. Each prisoner was then turned around to face a log wall, and Blokhin would shoot him in the back of the head . . .

The other 14,000 Polish intellectuals captured during the Soviet invasion met a similar fate, although not directly at the hand of General Blokhin.

Admittedly this is only a drop in the bucket of the 100,000,000 people killed by Communist regimes, but it is revealing.

"How much does organized crime rely on computers and network technology?"

One example comes to mind from the War on Some Drugs. On May 18, 1994, the Colombian authorities raided the offices of Jose Santacruz Londono, an associate of the Rodriguez brothers (big time Cali drug cartel guys), and confiscated an IBM AS/400 computer worth a $1 million. The AS/400 purpose was to sniff out moles within the drug cartel's organization. The cartel did this by housing a database of phone numbers of U.S. diplomats and agents based in Columbia, which was continuously correlated against the entire call log for Cali, which was leaked to the cartel by the local phone company. This setup effectively told the cartel who, when, and where anybody was using a telephone to contact drug enforcement personnel.

There was an article in Business 2.0, "The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc." by author Paul Kaihla. That's where I read about it originally. You may also find more reading online here: http://crimemagazine.com/06/calicartel,1021-6.htm

I've seen photos of her dressed similar to Shirley Temple, dressed as a Vegas showgirl, dressed as a school girl, a Nashville country queen, but I haven't found the "cheap whore" photos of her. Sure, the Mom dolled up her daughter, but why the intense animosity? Playing dressup with your daughter doesn't lead to the conclusion that parents were involved in child sex abuse, which is a leap that many made.

There was a film a couple of years back about Hogan's Heroes' Bob Crane called "Auto Focus" starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. He was one of the first to use the new "portable" VTR from Sony for sex video's. I googled up this: http://crimemagazine.com/bobcrane.htm

Right to execute a 14 year old should be left up to the states? Might as well go back to 150 years and allow states to determine whether people can own slaves or not. I love how the US lashes out at Iran when they executed a 16 year old girl, yet we execute younger kids and even the mentally retarded with the mind of a child. Cruel and unusual? Every 1st world nation except the US, doesn't execute kids.