I googled around a bit to try to find more information about the story, and there's nothing out there related to this story besides this guys' account. There are quite a few complaints about him defrauding people, but thats quite unrelated to the whole Patriot Act issue.
How do we know that the Patriot Act was invoked to get access to his records? If this guy was being investigated for fraud, law enforcement would have no problem getting permission to access his financial records, with or without the Patriot Act.
I think the whole idea that the MPAA/RIAA is skirting around the civil courts is reprehensible, but again, thats a completely different issue. If I'm profiting from distributing copywrited material, the Patriot Act is probably the least of my worries.
Point being...I've done that ad nauseum. There are a couple thousand complaints that have been filed with the justice department, and thirty some odd ones have been deemed 'credible'...whatever that means.
What I'm looking for are specific ones that pertain to to this specific section of the act. I'm not trying to say "I've never seen an example on the nightly news, so it doesn't happen." I'm looking for a documented case that I can get details on. Like real facts to back up assertions. It easy for me to say tell somebody this is a bad thing, (which it probably is), but if I can't offer up any proof as to how it harms people, what good is my opinion?
Maybe all the proof if being covered up, and we'll never know, until we're all put into the stockade for picking up 2600 at the library.
I've been doing some research on the Patriot Act, and I'm having trouble finding examples of where it's been abused.
Can anyone point me to some examples of where surveillance was used on citizens in relation to the library thing? So far, I haven't been able to come up with any time that it's been used for the benefit or the detriment of any law enforcement agency.
I've come across a couple of time when other aspects of the Act have "aided" in arresting suspects, but there's never any mention of this.
The patent seems to be for a browser, not for a document or for any specific tag or set of tags in a document.
If browser developers all decide tomorrow that the <img> tag needs to be changed and they change the browser to render it like the <p> tag, all of our images turn to text. The browser is what does the rendering, not the document.
From my limited knowledge of legalese, this patent looks like it pertains to the way that a browser renders and interprets the contents of a document and has nothing to do with the document itself. Perhaps MuseumTour needs to post a disclaimer on their page that their pages should not be viewed in what we have come to know as a "web browser" because it renders their code incorrectly.
WARNING: This post should only be viewed with non-html compliant browser software. Failure to do so will render it in a manner that is in violation of patent...blah blah blah.
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I googled around a bit to try to find more information about the story, and there's nothing out there related to this story besides this guys' account. There are quite a few complaints about him defrauding people, but thats quite unrelated to the whole Patriot Act issue.
How do we know that the Patriot Act was invoked to get access to his records? If this guy was being investigated for fraud, law enforcement would have no problem getting permission to access his financial records, with or without the Patriot Act.
I think the whole idea that the MPAA/RIAA is skirting around the civil courts is reprehensible, but again, thats a completely different issue. If I'm profiting from distributing copywrited material, the Patriot Act is probably the least of my worries.
Point being...I've done that ad nauseum. There are a couple thousand complaints that have been filed with the justice department, and thirty some odd ones have been deemed 'credible'...whatever that means.
What I'm looking for are specific ones that pertain to to this specific section of the act. I'm not trying to say "I've never seen an example on the nightly news, so it doesn't happen." I'm looking for a documented case that I can get details on. Like real facts to back up assertions. It easy for me to say tell somebody this is a bad thing, (which it probably is), but if I can't offer up any proof as to how it harms people, what good is my opinion?
Maybe all the proof if being covered up, and we'll never know, until we're all put into the stockade for picking up 2600 at the library.
I've been doing some research on the Patriot Act, and I'm having trouble finding examples of where it's been abused.
Can anyone point me to some examples of where surveillance was used on citizens in relation to the library thing? So far, I haven't been able to come up with any time that it's been used for the benefit or the detriment of any law enforcement agency.
I've come across a couple of time when other aspects of the Act have "aided" in arresting suspects, but there's never any mention of this.
The patent seems to be for a browser, not for a document or for any specific tag or set of tags in a document.
If browser developers all decide tomorrow that the <img> tag needs to be changed and they change the browser to render it like the <p> tag, all of our images turn to text. The browser is what does the rendering, not the document.
From my limited knowledge of legalese, this patent looks like it pertains to the way that a browser renders and interprets the contents of a document and has nothing to do with the document itself. Perhaps MuseumTour needs to post a disclaimer on their page that their pages should not be viewed in what we have come to know as a "web browser" because it renders their code incorrectly.
WARNING: This post should only be viewed with non-html compliant browser software. Failure to do so will render it in a manner that is in violation of patent...blah blah blah.