Swedish Film Institute Learning That An IP Address Is Not A Person
Earlier this month, an anti-piracy tracking company traced the origin of some Swedish films found on The Pirate Bay... all the way back to the Swedish Film Institute. After some embarrassment and...
View ArticleCan The NYPD Back Up Its Claim Of A Confrontation That Required Pepper Spray,...
Yesterday we wrote about the NYPD claiming that the video evidence of a police officer, now identified as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, pepper spraying a group of women shows that it was done...
View ArticleDoes The NYPD Really Think That Shooting Photos/Videos Of Protests Is...
The mess in NYC with the way the NYPD are handling the whole "Occupy Wall Street" situation continues. We've already covered the story of the police falsely claiming that video evidence of an incident...
View ArticleDOJ Responds To Megaupload's Accusations Of Misleading The Court... By...
We've discussed a few times now how Megaupload is arguing that key elements in the warrant used to criminally charge the company and its principles were misleading to the court. In particular,...
View ArticleMegaupload to DOJ: Misleading Semantics Aside, You Told Us You Were...
The back and forth between the DOJ and Megaupload continues. As you may recall, a key piece of evidence against Megaupload was the fact that it "knew" about certain infringing content on the site...
View ArticleNew UK Copyright Research Center Immediately Under Attack For Daring To Ask...
As Techdirt reported last year, some copyright maximalists in the UK seem to be against the whole idea of basing policy on evidence. Last week saw the launch of CREATe: Creativity, Regulation,...
View ArticleMore Prenda Insanity: Lawyer Claims Defendant Erased Infringing Activity...
Are you ready for some more fun courtesy of Prenda Law? While there are many copyright trolls wandering the judicial system, few have proven more entertaining than Prenda Law and its partners in...
View ArticleNJ State Trooper Feels The Best Part About The Required Dashcam Is The OFF...
We've seen plenty of stories here dealing with law enforcement's general displeasure with having their actions captured on camera by citizens (with one rare, exemplary exception). An odd stance to...
View ArticleIP Address Snapshots Not Sufficient Evidence To File Infringement Suit;...
It looks as if Judge Otis Wright is about done humoring Brett Gibbs and Prenda Law/AF Holdings/Ingenuity 13 LLC's continued legal asshattery. In a lengthy order that reads more like a smackdown,...
View ArticleKim Dotcom Loses Appeal Concerning Extradition
To date, Kim Dotcom has been having a long string of victories in court in his ongoing battle with the US concerning their attempt to extradite him and try him in the US for creating and running...
View ArticleWhy Site Blocking Orders Need To Be Challenged In Court
There is an extremely dangerous trend to remove proper judicial review from cases involving alleged copyright infringement. Sometimes that means "voluntary" actions by ISPs -- the SOPA and ACTA...
View ArticleMIT And Aaron Swartz's Lawyers Argue Over Releasing Evidence
Last Friday, Aaron Swartz's lawyers asked the court that had been overseeing his case to lift a protective order on material submitted during discovery, which Swartz's family and lawyers say will help...
View ArticleJohn Steele To Court: You Have No Evidence That I've Done Anything Wrong
And, the next filing in the big Prenda showdown has been filed, and it's John Steele's response to the Order to Show Cause (OSC) for why he shouldn't be sanctioned for a variety of misdeeds. Not...
View ArticleJudge To Allow More Evidence Filed Against Team Prenda, Despite Vehement...
On Wednesday, lawyer Morgan Pietz asked Judge Otis Wright if he could file some additional evidence in the big Prenda showdown case. Pietz, of course, is the lawyer who had been representing some of...
View ArticleBroad Coalition Of Public And Private Interests Call For Objective Data &...
One of the key things that has been a major concern to us for many, many years is how much of copyright policy tends to be driven by faith-based claims about what must be best (often this falls into...
View ArticlePolice Follow Up Beating A 'Possibly Intoxicated' Man To Death By Seizing...
How many law enforcement officers does it take to subdue one intoxicated man? In Bakersfield, CA, it takes nine: seven sheriff's deputies, two CHP officers and a police dog. It also appears that being...
View ArticleNZ Supreme Court Will Review Kim Dotcom's Extradition Case
Back in March, we noted that while a district court had ordered the US to hand over the evidence it was planning to use against Kim Dotcom, an appeals court had overturned that ruling, and said that...
View ArticleReleased Video From Silva Beating Shows His Last Moments; Video Of Actual...
A pair of the cell phone recordings of the David Silva beating have been released by attorney Daniel Rodriguez. 23ABC News received the videos first, both of which capture the final moments of Silva's...
View ArticleNew Zealand High Court Orders Kiwi Police & FBI To Return Seized Hard Drives...
The investigation and arrest of Kim Dotcom continues to show itself to be an operation that was poorly thought out, where clear liberties were taken by law enforcement who so believed the "Dr. Evil"...
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Irony Alert: John Steele Denies Uploading Anything Ever Despite Growing IP...
Well, well. We recently wrote about a new filing in the Paul Oppold case in Florida, in which lawyer Graham Syfert presents very, very detailed and compelling evidence, as put together by Delvan...
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