RIANZ withdraw one of first cases to Copyright Tribunal
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The defence could be run for the Kim Dot Com Case with the exception that you would change in 3 from "outrageously high sum requested by RIANZ as a penalty" to…

The original author? Marketing speak.

The translator? Dunno, but they had the good sense to give me the original Chinese as well so I could retranslate the worst bits.

The FBI? Check the evidence room, see what's missing, or perhaps replaced by a DVD labelled "Kubrick".

With the US-based servers already unplugged from the internet by the FBI, so would I.

I'd be interested to know how that would work, technically.

I'd guess they might have ~100T on a server (about the most you can get in commercial kit, although they might have big boxes of disks or custom built giant boxes of disks). At 100M/s, that's…

Umm... nobody informed them Dr Strangelove was a work of fiction?

yes, I know, back to editing...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10826176

The mystery group…

Only caught the Campbell Live snippet since about the Police admitting having video surveillance in place. The Big Brother house..

If it wasn't – WB, and it wasn't GCSB, or the CIA, – then perhaps it was the ACT leadership team or the board of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd?

Hmm, the footage that aired on TV Three this week one wonders where the rest of it is – the actual going into the "red room" and dealing with the family and the other people on site.

Just perhaps, the raid was sanctioned by First…

I/S certainly thinks so.

Probably GCSB, being the Government's IT experts. Somewhat excessive, really, but not a secret agency. A bit surprised Davison didn't ask that question.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10825903

Mr Davison asked about the origin of intelligence used to plan the raid, raising a meeting two months earlier attended by officers from Ofcanz, the police legal section, the Crown Law Office, American authorities and the unnamed group.

Taxpayers re funding a mystery…

I think ours are very conscientious these days and transparent in their structure and accounting, but I had reason to query a statement sent from the Hungarian office many years back. The record had gone to number…

Perhaps you mean DOJ? Although, from what I've read elsewhere there was a fairly substantial portion of MU's traffic and data storage that went to deployed military personnel for videos of their escapades.

Neil MacBride, the US Attorney for the Eastern District Of Virginia, has a message for anyone who lost personal data when his office…

No, true but good. I'd rather have a percentage that adjusts with the price of an item than being reliant on a fixed return. Ask anyone signed to an old fashioned recording deal in the early 1960s how it felt to be on a farthing a record…

Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.

Rob Reid is a humor author and…

Percentage based royalties are almost universal these days, no matter what commodity you look at.

So why not just price per track/minute, just like any other bland commodity. Discount for bulk even. You could even price it per bit, that way you pay more for quality or you could just wait for the iMusician® random…

A 23-year old student from Sheffield Hallam University in the north of England is bound for America. That wouldn't be unusual—except that Richard O'Dwyer won't go voluntarily. The UK Home Secretary has today agreed…

So why are albums all different prices then?. Is it that they guess at how much they can gouge the fans for and go with that number?.

Yes 11 or 12, but as you say, only ten from the UK album. The singles made their publishing off the single release.

They had a big scrap with Berry Gordy when one of his tracks was gonna get passed on…

*including the UK single, so four tracks left over.

Was that before the double-album prog rock/concept album era?

Not really. There is a set amount returned from an album sale and the pie doesn't get any bigger by adding more songs. The…

So, the more tracks you put on an album, the less money you get. Hey, I knew these record companies were greedy but that is bizarre.

No divided.

Multiplied, surely?.

And @ Peter Graham
Copyright on recordings made in the 60s is going to expire over the next decade, so Ray Columbus is going to lose his royalty income if the…

He didn't write that or any of his 'hits'. Lionel Bart was the composer.

rather than a wider interest in the welfare of copyright holders?

Or the broader intent of copyright.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta18JnQyZks

I do wonder though about these people the media/content industries wheel out time and…

And correct me if I'm wrong, but Ray's big hits, the ones they still play, were all written by other people.

Boom!

I think the message is clear: Extend copyright now or else Ray Columbus will starve, 51 years after his death.

US eyes NZ copyright laws

One of the striking features of the demonstrations against ACTA that took place across Europe over the last few weeks was the youth of the participants. That's not to say that only young people…

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/personalities/news/article.cfm?c_id=72&objectid=10789949

And if it hasn’t been posted about yet… believe it or not, truckies, trade unionists, financial advisers, and AKL CBD business interests have effectively called for co-determination.

ROFL

I understand the impending third tranche of charges against Kim firmly places him on the Grassy Knoll and as team leader onboard United 93.

Probably "journalists" carried away by the numbers being tossed around by the USG – 50m daily users seems a lot ;-)

Coupled with the fact that Megabox was not really offering anything more than that offered by iTunes and a 1000 other sites.

These wacky conspiracy theories have yet to explain exactly why the music…

As I said on Geekzone, I shall laugh myself silly if he now buggers off to Germany ;-)

I have great respec' for the Grudinad, more so than some other heralds that I care not to mention.
As others may note, I have little respect for the purveyors of emotive trash for cash.
I just watched "Descendants"* one of the best movies I have seen in years.…

From the Telegraph story:
"Sources say that is because the investigation centres on hacking into music industry accounts and social network sites in order to put up material before it has been released, rather than simply breaching an artist's existing copyright."…

http://rnbxclusive.com/ if you want to try it but they will record your IP address.

__EDIT: Oooh, I see I can just type the URL and Cactus automagically…

And the Police justifying why they did things the way they did.

The Dumb Waiter sure got a kicking.

Beaut!!

There's this thing we call the internet.

not everyone is backing the corporations right to dictate how we pay for the content they deem worthy of putting up for…

See, sometimes te interwebs tell you about stuff, eh?
=free advertising.

The eMails, in themselves, are only incriminating if they relate to actions within the US, surely?.

Good stuff with Simon and Rick. Nicely nuanced and wide ranging. But Peplow – am I the only one who’s seeing a giant chip on his shoulder about tech companies? That he saw the…

Would it be so surprising that they had no infringing material on those servers?
If I were they then I would have made sure that any suspect files were not on US servers. Then again, having offending files on those servers could be used as…

MU had servers in Virginia so the Grand Jury was impaneled there and the indictment references the "Eastern District of Virginia" numerous times as being the place where criminal activity is alleged to have taken place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicinage_Clause

Personally I woudl cancel the residency on the grounds of naughtiness and deport him back to Germany. Let a nice MMP parliament which includes the Pirate party deal with it...

You're Pretty cute yourself...
;-)

If you'd like to come to the recording tomorrow evening, we'll need you to present yourself at the Victoria St entrance of TVNZ some time between 5.15pm and 5.40pm.

Hey, Lemming, that's MY Popcorn, you copied it.
;-)

nom nom nom

The site being gone, it’s a little hard to check ;-) but I found this on Scribd – could be genuine. Same claim is…

Google's terms and condition make it clear there’s no guarantee documents stored…

meanwhile it looks like the data stored is to be deleted – isn't this akn to destroying evidence? (not to mention the legally stored data people will lose)

Moi??? Don't think so. But pleased to hear that you're happy being wrong. You have so much experience at it, after all.

That is all I have got to say.

Then my work…

I suggest you read some of Graeme Edgeler's contributions to the thread about the legal process and requirements..

I have and I don’t think that the situation, legally, is necessarily healthy or in…

It's not often that I find a Herald editorial to be more cogent than the comments, but I live to be surprised.

Yes. That's how the process works, for us as well…

I don't think that the situation – the ability to…

Not quite. See s131(5)(a) of the same Act. Criminal copyright infringement in NZ can carry penalties of up to five years' imprisonment, which is well above the 12-month limit needed to trigger the Extradition Act 1999. The key element in s131 is that the infringement is 'in the course…

Which we know what that means. Arse, kiss, much? Collins will be rubbing her hands with glee. She can get her name up in the…

So how does "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA) which is United States copyright law take affect in New Zealand – and are the notices valid in NZ or anywhere but the USA and the…

Megaupload Customer A uploads copyrighted material to his account – Customer A then posts a link to file in his account on a message board that enables other people (who view the message board) to access and download the copyrighted material. The link…

any more detail from the filing? unlikely to have time to read it any time soon.

..suddenly I like him a lot more ... but I'm still sure his business model relied on copyright infringement a whole lot more than google's

If Megaupload encouraged their users to infringe copyright and were profiting from that infringement then they're definitely breaking the law. The FBI has emails where Megaupload staff discuss encouraging their users to infringe copyright. If the…

The influx of cash began to fuel Schmitz’s fantasy fulfillment engine, funding his love of fast cars and outrageous antics. He promoted his new bad-boy rich hacker genius image through a…

The FBI could shutdown Google and arrest its staff on much the same grounds, but they won't because Google is a public company with shares held by many institutions that in turn own senators and congressman.

I'm sure that if Dotcom had thought…

There are a lot of fascinating aspects about this case.

Fundamentally I believe he knew what was going on with MegaUpload, but he spent a lot of money on lawyers to make sure he did all the things the…

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/elvis/elnix.html

& here also:

http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pictures/badge_bureau_narcotic_dangerous_drugs.html

http://garricktremain.com/media/Dotcom_copy_copy1.jpg

All we need now is Farrar to say "ditto" and we'll be counting down the end days.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a Dann!

gold

I get the feeling this one's going to be a long haul, yes.

My favourite kind of pussy. Nothing worse than a dry, conservative pussy.

I guess you'd start by asking your local ACT MP for advice.

Unfortunately he didn't realize that those rules only apply when your victims are little old ladies and/or the NZ taxpayer. Not the US government's owners.

I'd note the United States does have an extradition treaty with Germany, so am I missing something here?

It does make one wonder why the hell he came here in the first place.

Um, yes, everyone is a flight risk to some extent. But very few people appearing before New Zealand courts are millionaires with hidden bank…

I think we all take that as read, Red – I’d just like to think the rule of law (including BORA) protects everyone, even the MegaDodgyDouche-nozzles. :)

The judgement on bail seems well within reason.

I’ll grant that relying on The Herald is a dangerous thing,…

Agreed, regardless of the strength of the extradition case.

It seems that there is a good chance that Schmidt's conduct won't amount to an extraditable offence in NZ. The US authorities may well…

I haven't read it, but does the judgement list actual evidence for any of the assertions about copyright infringement?

Kim Dotcom's no angel and he's too much of a showboat to go into hiding, but the whole affair does sound a bit trumped-up.

I honestly think there is little or nothing in this.

For one thing, Megabox launched, albeit in beta, in December.

For another, if I understand…

Secret evidence from a customs official helped a judge decide that internet multimillionaire Kim Dotcom should stay behind bars.

In…

Well if you have enough money jonkey will bend over backwards to give you a hand to slip in the back door, if you have even more jonkey will get the rest of us to bend over forwards.
If you have even more…

Dissed lodgers...
Apparently we have porous “boarders”. Who knew?
Sponging off the State...

Everyone! The whole idea of the RWC was to wring as much as possible out of the foreigners. We showed the whole world that it actually is possible to wring your own neck.

I suppose there's some deep hipster irony in the hottest story on the Internet being embedded in scanned images of a paper document. Oh well, at least those of us that can see have something to read...

Apparently we have porous "boarders". Who knew?

What I think Sacha…

I thought it was... oh never mind.
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