Not if being arrested and "releasing into the general population" is used as a loophole to get around the 4th amendment.
Someone being assertive and trying to insist on a warrant before being searched can now just be arrested for whatever bullshit the cop can think of, and the search will conveniently happen as part of the booking process.
With this ruling the cops can just use their handcuffs as a shortcut to avoid getting a search warrant.
This is just a blank check for cops to arrest people and use this ruling as a back door to do an end run around the 4th amendment by letting the jail do the search for them.
Before:
1. Cop gets warrant 2. Search happens 3. Contraband found 4. Cop makes arrest
Now:
1. Cop makes bullshit arrest 2. Prison does a strip search 3. Contraband found 4. Subject gets busted for contraband
So if the cops want to search you, now all they have to do is just slap the cuffs on you and boot you behind bars and let the prison filter out as contraband whatever it is they didn't want to get a warrant for out on the streets.
The powers that be don't care how much you do to curb piracy.
Nothing short of pledging your very soul to the cause of their profit margins will satisfy them.
The only reason MU got nailed and TPB didn't was because MU was unfortunate enough to be within reach of the feds and their politically subversive puppet masters, whereas TPB was safely blowing raspberries at the feds from across the ocean.
Believe me, if the MAFIAA could strangle TPB as badly as they did MU they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Using common sense caching protocols to retain popular downloads does not an intent form. Giving higher scores to frequently accessed information is a very obvious common sense optimization.
The fact that the files that were retained the longest happened to be copyright infringing doesn't prove that MegaUpload willfully contributed to infringement.
All it means is that people really like to pirate stuff.
The only people who deserve blame are
A: The crackers who upload the stuff B: The users who download it
With the standard "we reserve the right to terminate your service at any time we damn well please" clauses in most EULA/TOS documents, the real terms are "you are our guests and we can kick you out whenever we feel like it" and thus are actually very common.
Technically they could yank your service for having purple hair.
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
I didn't say that murder wasn't evil, just that not all killings are murders.
Considering how clearly I stated "Those aren't murders" methinks you are intentionally twisting my words in an attempt to make me look like a fool.
Those aren't murders.
Technically they are justifiable homicides since they are done in defense of a third party's life.
My point being that avoiding a greater evil doesn't legitimize the lesser evil.
Btw, bonus points if the jail guards find contraband on you that the cops never could have gotten a search warrant for.
Sounds like a big fat loophole in the 4th amendment if you ask me.
What if the cops just want to arrest you to get you strip searched because they're too lazy to put up with the hassle of getting a search warrant?
I wonder if the cops only arrested him to get him strip searched at the prison and spare themselves the hassle of getting a search warrant.
Not to mention a shortcut around the 4th amendment.
If all they have to do to get you searched is arrest you and send you to jail then they practically speaking don't really need a search warrant.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
In the ideal world BOTH problems would go poof.
Maybe we'd have less abuse if we didn't have bullshit laws locking up so many metric assloads of people behind bars in the first place.
Not if being arrested and "releasing into the general population" is used as a loophole to get around the 4th amendment.
Someone being assertive and trying to insist on a warrant before being searched can now just be arrested for whatever bullshit the cop can think of, and the search will conveniently happen as part of the booking process.
With this ruling the cops can just use their handcuffs as a shortcut to avoid getting a search warrant.
This is just a blank check for cops to arrest people and use this ruling as a back door to do an end run around the 4th amendment by letting the jail do the search for them.
Before:
1. Cop gets warrant
2. Search happens
3. Contraband found
4. Cop makes arrest
Now:
1. Cop makes bullshit arrest
2. Prison does a strip search
3. Contraband found
4. Subject gets busted for contraband
So if the cops want to search you, now all they have to do is just slap the cuffs on you and boot you behind bars and let the prison filter out as contraband whatever it is they didn't want to get a warrant for out on the streets.
CGA was 4 colors.
Please hand in your geek card.
They've already got the politicians deep enough in their pockets they may as well have sovereign immunity.
The powers that be don't care how much you do to curb piracy.
Nothing short of pledging your very soul to the cause of their profit margins will satisfy them.
The only reason MU got nailed and TPB didn't was because MU was unfortunate enough to be within reach of the feds and their politically subversive puppet masters, whereas TPB was safely blowing raspberries at the feds from across the ocean.
Believe me, if the MAFIAA could strangle TPB as badly as they did MU they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Using common sense caching protocols to retain popular downloads does not an intent form. Giving higher scores to frequently accessed information is a very obvious common sense optimization.
The fact that the files that were retained the longest happened to be copyright infringing doesn't prove that MegaUpload willfully contributed to infringement.
All it means is that people really like to pirate stuff.
The only people who deserve blame are
A: The crackers who upload the stuff
B: The users who download it
The sad thing is I actually considered this story possible with how the US strongarms the rest of the world in general.
I don't think this is so much a loosening of restrictions as it is a honeypot operation to entice people to get caught with redder hands than before.
Considering it was the ACLU that sent it I wouldn't be surprised if threats of litigation were included.
With the standard "we reserve the right to terminate your service at any time we damn well please" clauses in most EULA/TOS documents, the real terms are "you are our guests and we can kick you out whenever we feel like it" and thus are actually very common.
Technically they could yank your service for having purple hair.
So this means I can use bittorrent and peer with my neighbors without being charged for the data, right?
Somehow I don't think that "permanent revenue stream" and "cure" mix very well.
Once someone is cured, they are no longer a patient.
Or, just like with Ohio, the powers that shall become will rig the election to make sure they win anyway.
Did you ever have rights against rich entities anyway?
Besides, with loser pays organizations like the EFF can turn donations into loans instead of gifts.
The EFF can throw gobs of money at the case, win it, and get their money back to reuse on the next case.
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Popes aren't appointed, they're elected.