Posts by Keir Leslie
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Civil offence is, uh, not a well defined concept. (In fact, as far as I can tell, it has three different meanings, none of which match how Sacha is using it, depending if you are the British Army, a parking warden, or the Canadian competition authorities.)
What I think Sacha wants to say is that because copyright is like a property right, copyright infringement can be dealt with civilly: the same as most property right infringement. But there's heaps of property right infringement that is dealt with criminally.
You’ve completely lost me there. I really don’t think that’s a good analogy at all.
No, I don't think it is either. It is because this `civil offence' thing is a messy ill-defined concept that doesn't clarify anything.
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Civil offences? Sacha, what do you mean by a civil offence?
Also, many criminal matters have a corresponding civil issue --- even something as simple as assault. But I doubt you'd be happy using that logic to distinguish assault.
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Yeah: it turns out most banks are so heavily regulated, it is almost impossible to be massively illegal and still a bank. So it's a flawed metaphor.
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Sorry, let me rephrase that. If it were alleged that one of a bank's major income streams was illegal, that it was engaged in large scale money laundering --- on a level beyond merely `errors', and an officer of the bank had convictions for insider trading, then it would almost certainly be frozen.
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Um, you know, if a bank was alleged to have indulged in money laundering, it sure as hell would be frozen when the police moved against them. No two ways about it.
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Because there are still other, functional, links to that content.
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It is interesting that people are using the implementation details of MegaUpload's processes as a defence. Surely the onus should be on MegaUpload to implement their service in a legal way, not on everyone else to work around their design flaws?
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I guess I should be happy not being in Christchurch at the moment, but to be honest I really feel I should be there. it is properly absurd but.
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Except the stimulus programs didn't fail; they just weren't big enough.
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Except Australia, which didn't gamble, but rather followed economic orthodoxy and is now enjoying a very creditable economic performance.
Seriously angus, how is a stimulus like a gamble? Where is the risk? As far as I can tell you don't actually understand how counter cyclic spending works.