Let's face it, the.com domain registry is in the US and the the US does have jurisdiction by the logical extension to the Internet of old case law.
US servers are being told to resolve domains.
Courts, prosecutors, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security (and other things) being able to arbitrarily seize domains IS the problem.
The only purpose for seizure as it was intended to be used when restrictions on search and seizure were added to the Constitution was to gather and preserve evidence.
That is its only LEGITIMATE purpose still, unless someone has been convicted of a crime and it is part of their sentence or to stop a terrorist attack.
And if they don't have the Department of Homeland Security STOP worrying about bullshit and just deal with actual homeland security, I'm afraid another 9/11 is extremely likely. Having them involved in the War on Drugs and the War on Piracy and the War on Gambling is going to make us lose the War on Terror (the only one WORTH fighting).
And FreeNet is easy to take down.
Try, convict and then sentence node owners to 20 years in prison. The rest will shut themselves down.
You don't even need to convict people. Here in Las Vegas, someone was accused (not even yet tried) of possessing child pornography. Rather than try the alleged pervert, they assigned him a cellmate in the Clark County Detention Center (*) who was an accused murderer of a child (killing his own nephew!), who, get this, ended up killing (BEAT and STABBED to death) the alleged pervert. Imagine that.
That was a hit.
So now people know that just being accused can result in an indirect death sentence. Even those innocent could die.
And guess what one running a FreeNet node could be accused of trafficing in? They could be set up with bogus/planted evidence, arrested, set up in prison and brutally killed with in a week! No need for a trial where someone could be found not guilty.
Talk about a chilling effect!
(*) This jail is way out of control. Maybe not as bad as Rikers Island in NYC, but close! Some years back they put someone accused of marijuana possession in with hardened criminals and he got raped in the shower. I don't think that was an accident.
Sam Donaldson of Stop Prison Rape (now Just Detention International) was set up in the DC jail to get raped - read the story. (**)
http://www.bravemantherapy.com/articles/prison.htm "In 1997, Robert was arrested for possession of marijuana and taken to the Clark County detention center in Las Vegas where three men raped him in the shower. Now, 18 months out of prison, he is still trying to come to terms with the experience."
Guess they taught him a lesson for daring to possess the "evil reefer"!
The Scientific Establishment feels threatened - that's why they are fighting so vigourously.
Just like faster than light, and alternatives to Einstein's theory, and how they used a claim of a bad cable to whitewash result that showed faster than light effects.
Look at the mainstream Cancer Establishment, still using barbaric toxic chemotherapy with nothing else to offer - the only thing they have to offer is a different way to die.
It would be like using amputation for weight loss.
This all makes leeches look good - in fact leeches are useful (I mean the animal, not the members of the Medical Establishment).
They didn't need to DELETE it, just BLOCK access to it.
Only delete it if there was no DMCA re-instatement in a reasonable time.
By DELETING it they are unable to RE-INSTATE access, and are LIABLE for THAT under the DMCA.
Allowing a reposting is not the same thing, even after one gets the right to repost one has to re-upload the content and the comments, original file name, etc are lost.
Also, not following the DMCA takedown procedure just denies you an automatic safe harbor, you aren't automatically guilty, just not automatically innocent. Of couse, most judges and juries are idiots so being in front of either is usually bad unless you are a plaintiff. Judges and juries only feel they are doing "justice" when they award damages.
When Amazon had that outage it was just thought to be an outage, but it turned out data was lost.
Disruption is bad enough, but data loss is way worse, since people and businesses likely won't have their own backups, and loss of data, even a low percentage, can easily KILL a business.
Lose an order or a customer's records or a customer's data and you likely lose a customer and get bad reputation.
Lose business records and it might be impossible to exist.
Tell them if they don't exercise, they'll get type 2 diabetes, possibly while they are still children and will not have a single DAY of a healthy adulthood, and they'll have to eat boring foods on a schedule, never go barefoot at the beach (diabetics are told to NEVER go barefoot because they have nerve and blood vessel damage), still go blind and have their legs cut off, or they can exercise and not get it!
TSA serves an important function, i.e. keeping terrorists off our airplanes!
Preventing them from doing their jobs is a recipe for disaster.
I'm usually pro-civil liberties, and I think DHS banning the UK teens for their tweets was stupid, but TSA does an important job, and they are worried about your safety, not getting their jollies by feeling up people. Do you think the same of your doctor?
Oh, yeah, the radiation issue.
Equivalent to 3 MINUTES OF FLIGHT. So if it scares you don't fly, or live in Denver or anywhere above sea level!
The relativists hold control of the physics community, suggesting anything can travel faster than light is the physics equivalent of blasphemy.
The results brought into question the unquestionable doctrine, and hence they had to be explained away. It is considered as unacceptable as the idea that the Earth wasn't flat or that the Earth orbited the Sun was.
Just like the Roswell incident was explained away as due to a "weather balloon".
Einstein's theory may have been a refinement over Newton, but it still isn't the Truth!
Had 2 engines severely overheat, i.e. with smoke coming out. One of them is dead, sounds like it is trying to catch when starting, but never actually starts. JUNK.
What did the gauge read?
If it was in the red/at/past the H I'd understand.
But it was NORMAL, both times.
What good is a gauge that doesn't actually tell you it is burning up?!
Why they measure water temperature and not cylinder head temperature (i.e. what REALLY matters) I don't know. Planes have them.
Except perhaps so people have engines get damaged.
I know someone who had a Hyundai. Mostly freeway miles, brakes needed replacing at 10K miles and the 100K/10 year warranty wouldn't cover it, since it "normal wear and tear" for the brakes to be shot in only 10K miles.
The US government has identified this computer as a security risk. We recommend that you rebuild this computer. You are seeing this message because we shutdown the group controlling your computer.
Most people wouldn't believe it. They'd call Microsoft and when they find it still exists, they'd say the message was a lie - since most people think Microsoft controls their computer and the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's face it, the .com domain registry is in the US and the the US does have jurisdiction by the logical extension to the Internet of old case law.
US servers are being told to resolve domains.
Courts, prosecutors, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security (and other things) being able to arbitrarily seize domains IS the problem.
The only purpose for seizure as it was intended to be used when restrictions on search and seizure were added to the Constitution was to gather and preserve evidence.
That is its only LEGITIMATE purpose still, unless someone has been convicted of a crime and it is part of their sentence or to stop a terrorist attack.
And if they don't have the Department of Homeland Security STOP worrying about bullshit and just deal with actual homeland security, I'm afraid another 9/11 is extremely likely. Having them involved in the War on Drugs and the War on Piracy and the War on Gambling is going to make us lose the War on Terror (the only one WORTH fighting).
And FreeNet is easy to take down.
Try, convict and then sentence node owners to 20 years in prison. The rest will shut themselves down.
You don't even need to convict people. Here in Las Vegas, someone was accused (not even yet tried) of possessing child pornography. Rather than try the alleged pervert, they assigned him a cellmate in the Clark County Detention Center (*) who was an accused murderer of a child (killing his own nephew!), who, get this, ended up killing (BEAT and STABBED to death) the alleged pervert. Imagine that.
That was a hit.
So now people know that just being accused can result in an indirect death sentence. Even those innocent could die.
And guess what one running a FreeNet node could be accused of trafficing in? They could be set up with bogus/planted evidence, arrested, set up in prison and brutally killed with in a week! No need for a trial where someone could be found not guilty.
Talk about a chilling effect!
(*) This jail is way out of control. Maybe not as bad as Rikers Island in NYC, but close! Some years back they put someone accused of marijuana possession in with hardened criminals and he got raped in the shower. I don't think that was an accident.
Sam Donaldson of Stop Prison Rape (now Just Detention International) was set up in the DC jail to get raped - read the story. (**)
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/15175310/inmate-murdered-at-ccdc
http://www.lvrj.com/news/inmate-kills-roommate-in-clark-county-detention-center-126413548.html
http://www.bravemantherapy.com/articles/prison.htm
"In 1997, Robert was arrested for possession of marijuana and taken to the Clark County detention center in Las Vegas where three men raped him in the shower. Now, 18 months out of prison, he is still trying to come to terms with the experience."
Guess they taught him a lesson for daring to possess the "evil reefer"!
(**)
http://www.jimgoad.net/pdf/prison/donny.pdf
The Scientific Establishment feels threatened - that's why they are fighting so vigourously.
Just like faster than light, and alternatives to Einstein's theory, and how they used a claim of a bad cable to whitewash result that showed faster than light effects.
Look at the mainstream Cancer Establishment, still using barbaric toxic chemotherapy with nothing else to offer - the only thing they have to offer is a different way to die.
It would be like using amputation for weight loss.
This all makes leeches look good - in fact leeches are useful (I mean the animal, not the members of the Medical Establishment).
Your hard drives last longer than a year?
Use AMD, get burned.
Also, AMD is divesting from that chip fab.
Looks like their going down!
He faces 20 years for a cyber crime. Had he molested a child, he'd only get 15 years! (*).
(*) 18 USC 2243. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2243
Where is our sense of priorities or of justice?
They need to rename the Department of Justice, it is a mockery. Call it the Department of Investigation and Punishment. Justice is dead.
They didn't need to DELETE it, just BLOCK access to it.
Only delete it if there was no DMCA re-instatement in a reasonable time.
By DELETING it they are unable to RE-INSTATE access, and are LIABLE for THAT under the DMCA.
Allowing a reposting is not the same thing, even after one gets the right to repost one has to re-upload the content and the comments, original file name, etc are lost.
Also, not following the DMCA takedown procedure just denies you an automatic safe harbor, you aren't automatically guilty, just not automatically innocent. Of couse, most judges and juries are idiots so being in front of either is usually bad unless you are a plaintiff. Judges and juries only feel they are doing "justice" when they award damages.
When Amazon had that outage it was just thought to be an outage, but it turned out data was lost.
Disruption is bad enough, but data loss is way worse, since people and businesses likely won't have their own backups, and loss of data, even a low percentage, can easily KILL a business.
Lose an order or a customer's records or a customer's data and you likely lose a customer and get bad reputation.
Lose business records and it might be impossible to exist.
quetiapine causes diabetes!
http://www.jabfm.org/content/16/3/251.full
Have you noticed that EVERYTHING seems to cause cancer?
It is a wonder that not everyone has cancer, with so many things causing it. (*)
I really doubt all the different classes of sleep meds are carcinogenic.
*
Too much sun
http://www.webmd.com/healthy-beauty/guide/sun-exposure-skin-cancer
Not enough sun
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2004179538_vitamind13m.html
Being overweight
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/obesity
Being underweight
http://foodforbreastcancer.com/news/underweight-women-have-higher-risks-of-breast-cancer-recurrence-and-metastasis
Too little exercise
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health-nutrition/leslie-beck/prolonged-bouts-of-sitting-increase-cancer-risk/article2229466/?service=mobile
Too much exercise
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2006/12/too-much-exercise-causes-cancer.html
Too little vegetables
http://www.cancer.org/Healthy/EatHealthyGetActive/EatHealthy/fruits-and-vegetables-do-you-get-enough
Too many vegetables
http://www.keytobeing.com/2009/pesticides-in-fruits-veggies-linked-to-cancer-parkinsons-more
Even chemo"therapy"
http://www.cancer-free-for-life.com/articles/chemotherapy.php
I bet the UK wishes it still was.
There are also lesser cases of this, like agreeing to arbitrage by certain courts (for example sharia courts in UK).
There are sharia courts in the UK? SCARY!
We're not addicted to oil, we can stop whenever we want to. :)
Atheists are fools.
Tell them if they don't exercise, they'll get type 2 diabetes, possibly while they are still children and will not have a single DAY of a healthy adulthood, and they'll have to eat boring foods on a schedule, never go barefoot at the beach (diabetics are told to NEVER go barefoot because they have nerve and blood vessel damage), still go blind and have their legs cut off, or they can exercise and not get it!
Indeed. The 1% can do what they want, and the 99% struggle.
Even worse, rotate shifts BACKWARDS.
TSA serves an important function, i.e. keeping terrorists off our airplanes!
Preventing them from doing their jobs is a recipe for disaster.
I'm usually pro-civil liberties, and I think DHS banning the UK teens for their tweets was stupid, but TSA does an important job, and they are worried about your safety, not getting their jollies by feeling up people. Do you think the same of your doctor?
Oh, yeah, the radiation issue.
Equivalent to 3 MINUTES OF FLIGHT. So if it scares you don't fly, or live in Denver or anywhere above sea level!
The relativists hold control of the physics community, suggesting anything can travel faster than light is the physics equivalent of blasphemy.
The results brought into question the unquestionable doctrine, and hence they had to be explained away. It is considered as unacceptable as the idea that the Earth wasn't flat or that the Earth orbited the Sun was.
Just like the Roswell incident was explained away as due to a "weather balloon".
Einstein's theory may have been a refinement over Newton, but it still isn't the Truth!
I'm going to get my engineers to invent a Combustible Lemon
It's called a Ford Pinto.
Don't get me started on temperature gauges!
Had 2 engines severely overheat, i.e. with smoke coming out. One of them is dead, sounds like it is trying to catch when starting, but never actually starts. JUNK.
What did the gauge read?
If it was in the red/at/past the H I'd understand.
But it was NORMAL, both times.
What good is a gauge that doesn't actually tell you it is burning up?!
Why they measure water temperature and not cylinder head temperature (i.e. what REALLY matters) I don't know. Planes have them.
Except perhaps so people have engines get damaged.
Was fuel injection any good when it first came out? (*)
Or like most things, buggy until the bugs were worked out?
(*) Yes, I know the fuel injection was used before carbueterrors and then made a comeback.
1. Junk the Hyundai
2. Buy a real car
I know someone who had a Hyundai. Mostly freeway miles, brakes needed replacing at 10K miles and the 100K/10 year warranty wouldn't cover it, since it "normal wear and tear" for the brakes to be shot in only 10K miles.
What if it's Air Traffic Control?
Lots of planes could crash in a minute.
The US government has identified this computer as a security risk. We recommend that you rebuild this computer. You are seeing this message because we shutdown the group controlling your computer.
Most people wouldn't believe it. They'd call Microsoft and when they find it still exists, they'd say the message was a lie - since most people think Microsoft controls their computer and the Internet.
LOL.
The bewilderingly long prison sentence leaves me wondering if there is more to this than we can see
Not to mention that for most hackers, even 8 HOURS would very likely lead to being brutally victimized.
At least if Mr. Megaupload.com gets convicted and sentenced, he should be safe (300+ lbs, a lot of muscle!).