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Judge Rules that Kazaa can be Sued
scubacuda writes "According to this News.com article, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson said a lawsuit against Sharman Networks (the makers of Kazaa) could proceed, since Kazaa software had been downloaded and used by millions of Californians. (The Australia-/Vanuatu-based company had filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing it was not bound by U.S. laws since it did not have substantial contacts with California.)"
I think what's worse is the way thay do it. ' Ah, you don't want to help us smoke the criminals out of their holes? ' reply: How do we know they are criminals? 'Because was say they are' reply: Yes but do you have any evidence 'Yes but you're not getting it' reply: You mean you just want us to trust you and hand over our people to be put on show trial by you regardless of whether or not their is evidence? 'Yes basically. If you don't were just gonna bomb you anyway' reply: Isn't that illegal? 'No we're Americans so we can do what we want' reply: ????? or ' Fine, we have reasons to believe you hide terrorists en produces nuclear weapons! ' reply: Know we don't come and look for them then. Here's our reply to all your statements so far. 'Ok, we'll take them to copy them then show them to everyone else after removing the useful bits' reply: Er ok.... 'Hey you didn't answer this issue which we never raised before. Also this is the same as what you told us last time' reply: That's because you've been sanctioning our country so basically there's nothing new since last time except a lot more people have died. 'No that's not possible. Anyway our spys ooops I mean the weapons inspectors are sure to find something' reply: Ok we'll wait and see' later 'Well our spys found out a lot of useful info about where to attack you and where your good oil supplies are but they didn't find any useful info. Still we want the oil so we'll attack you anyway. Oh wait a minute, I mean you must have weapons so we'll attack you anyway.' reply: What? You searched already. How do you know we must have weapons if you don't know where to find them? You're welcome to search anywhere. Heck you can even kidnap our scientists if you want so you can torture them and try to get them to lie. 'Oh those people are idiots. We wasted a few hundred kilowatts torturing your scienties but still they wouldn't lie. Anyway you must have weapons because we say so. We don't lie. Bye bye' reply: ???? or ' No sir, you can't do that, I'm an American citizen. ' in foreign countries reply: But you broke out laws which you knew clearly when you came here. ' That's not relevant, I'm an American citizen so you're laws don't apply' but then ' It doesn't matter whether you've never been here or not or whether you have any business interest here, we can still sue you and you're going to have to pay.' reply: I refuse. ' Well you'll lose then and get sanctions dumped on you. You do know how powerful US sanctions are right?'
You Peer to Peer EVERYTHING BY LAW
Whee communism!
Ben
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