Lets Paint The Kettle Black,Do You Have A Bitch On Whats Going On Around The Site Or Any Thing Negative To Report

FBI trains Sweden copyright cops

p2pnet.net news:- Would you call a crew of entertainment cartel copyright-cops 'elite'? Well, that's how they're being described by The Local which posts an, "elite corps of Swedish police has been trained to combat Internet piracy by the FBI and American lobbying lobbying organization the Motion Picture Association."

It's mind-boggling how not just the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), as the Hollywood spin organization is better known, but brother outfit the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and the corporate software industry's BSA (Business Software Alliance) are freely able to use police officers around the world, paid for by local people through their taxes, for hard-core business exercises.

And no one says a blind thing, least of all the taxpayers whose hard-earned money is thus being used to enhance corporate profits.

Nor has anyone studied what kind of detrimental affect this may have over the short or long term on normal policing duties, such as going after murders and the like.

Marianne Hilton, head of studies at the Swedish National Police Academy, defended the use of involvement of lobbying organizations such as the MPA, says the story, quoting Computer Sweden.

"I have full confidence in the organizer of the course," it has her declaring. "We have contacts with organizations outside the police. If we have made the judgment that if a group has competence that we can use, then we invite them in."

She doesn't say who initially 'sensitized' the police.

Meanwhile, six police officers have been given training by the MPA and by FBI agent Andrew Myers, "as well as a number of Swedish experts in the field," says The Local, still quoting Computer Sweden.

And from the look of it, it's all down to The Pirate Bay, recently written up by US fashion mag Vanity Fair.

"Sweden, home to The Pirate Bay, the world's largest bit-torrent site, has come to be viewed by many in the music and movie industries as a haven for Internet piracy," says the story, going on:

"In an attempt to improve the Swedish police's record on piracy, a group of six police officers have been given training by the MPA and by FBI agent Andrew Myers, as well as a number of Swedish experts in the field, reports.

"According to documents from the International Intellectual Property Alliance seen by computer Sweden, the MPA will be participating at further seminars in Sweden later this year."

The IIPA is currently on a major world rantkrieg, accusing countries everywhere of harbouring copyright criminals, and Computer Sweden, says, "representatives from the Motion Picture Association and the FBI have been invited in to give lectures at Sweden's National Police Academy."

"The police do not see any conflict of interest in welcoming the lobby organisation but Sweden’s Pirate Party, which campaigns for copyrighted material to be free for everyone, says the MPA should not be able to get involved in this country’s justice system, 'just to protect their old, lucrative monopoly'," says Radio Sweden, adding:

"Internet Piracy was a hot topic in Sweden last year, after Swedish Police closed down one of the world’s biggest bit torrent sites, The Pirate Bay.

"It was alleged Washington had threatened to go to the World Trade Organisation to get sanctions imposed on Sweden if the site was not stopped. It was back up and running three days later."

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Also See:
The Local - FBI and film industry train Swedish piracy police, February 19, 2007
written up - The Pirate Bay meets Vanity Fair, February 14, 2007
world rantkrieg - Canada arouses corporate ire, February 14, 2007
Radio Sweden - Film industry lobbyists train Police on internet piracy, February 19, 2007
http://p2pnet.net/story/11371

 

My bitch of the night:

I am combining ogm files (Anime) my friend wants me to burn to a DVD for him. Well I got from 1-15 just fine (using VirtualDubMod) and then episode 16 gave me a lame error which is the following:

Cannot append segment: The samplerates do not match (23.97604 vs 23.97599)

That lame that because the frame rate is 0.00005 off it can't combine the files

Peace

 

My Bitch of the Day...After hours spent trying to find an out of production...Limited Edition...Blue...Cooler Master...Wavemaster Computer Case...I find only One avalable...in Vancouver Canada...they have USA listed in their...drop down...address box...however they say they will not ship to the USA...If they will not ship to the USA...maybe they should not list it...

Anybody here from Canada...That's willing to ship a computer case to USA???

 

HERES A BITCH,THAT COULD OF HAPPEN TO YE

Police blotter: eBay car buyer robbed at gunpoint

By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: February 21, 2007, 5:28 AM PST

"Police blotter" is a weekly CNET News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law.

What: eBay scammer is convicted of interstate robbery and acquitted of a gun charge, but he receives a higher sentence from a judge based on the gun charge, anyway.

When: U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on February 7.

Outcome: Sentence of more than 16 years in prison based on a gun charge is upheld.

What happened, according to court documents: Dewan Anthony Horne had invented a scam that was both cunning and criminal. He would advertise vintage "muscle cars" for sale on eBay and offer a good price. Once Horne struck up a conversation with a prospective buyer, he'd suggest coming to Indianapolis and paying for the car in cash or the equivalent.

The hitch: the cars for sale didn't exist. When the would-be purchaser showed up at a garage on the east side of Indianapolis, Horne and at least one gun-toting accomplice would attempt to rob the eBay buyer of the cash and anything else of value.
Horne didn't seem very good at his line of work. Beyond the detail of being nabbed by the police, court documents indicate that he managed to complete only one robbery.

An article in the Memphis Commercial Appeal from March 2005, the time of Horne's indictment by a federal grand jury, described how the robbery scam worked. "A father and son from Georgia and South Carolina were forced at gunpoint to lie down while Horne and his partners took more than $9,000 in cash and equipment from their truck before leaving in Horne's car," the article said, based on the indictment. (The equipment was a satellite navigation system.)

Still, even one completed robbery was enough to get Horne arrested. Like most crimes, robbery usually is prosecuted by states and not the federal government. But the U.S. Department of Justice argued that Horne's use of eBay to lure his prey ran afoul of the federal Hobbs Act's prohibition on robbery that "in any way or degree obstructs, delays or affects commerce."

Horne's attorneys argued that the Hobbs Act didn't apply, saying any crimes that occurred arose in face-to-face encounters, and neither the car nor the cash was transferred across state lines. (It's unclear why the cash didn't physically cross state lines; the father and son may have withdrawn it from a local branch of their bank.)

This is a novel use of the Hobbs Act. A February 12 article in the Wisconsin Law Journal says: "No other court of appeals has yet considered application of the Hobbs Act to a robbery, merely because it was facilitated by the Internet. The cases that the court cites for support of its holding all involve either possession of child pornography obtained over the Internet or use of the Internet to solicit children for sexual intercourse."

The trial judge and the 7th Circuit agreed that the extension of the Hobbs Act was reasonable. The 7th Circuit said the Internet is inherently international in scope, "and the buy-and-sell offers communicated over it, in this case, created interstate transactions and were affected by the defendant's fraud."

Here's another twist: Horne was acquitted by a federal jury on a gun charge, which in his case would have carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years. But U.S. District Judge David Hamilton nevertheless took those unproven allegations into account when sentencing Horne, imposing a sentence of 112 months for the Hobbs Act violations and 84 months for the gun violation. That yielded a total of 16 years and 2 months in prison.

This is a controversial practice. In an impassioned dissent (PDF) in an unrelated case last year, U.S. Circuit Judge Dolores Sloviter said it violates the due process guarantee of the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment and "turns constitutional criminal procedure on its head." She wrote that the defendant's sentence was unconstitutionally increased after the trial judge ruled that he committed an aggravated assault, "despite the fact that no jury found that he had done so, and no fact finder, not even the judge, so found beyond a reasonable doubt."

Nevertheless, the 7th Circuit upheld Horne's sentence, saying judges can use acquittals as evidence of wrongdoing. "An inference that the jury found the defendant to be actually innocent of the gun charge would be particularly far-fetched because there is no doubt that his accomplice brandished a gun during the attempted robbery in question," a three-judge panel said.

The judge in this case used the gun charge of which the defendant had been acquitted to increase the guidelines range for the Hobbs Act charges to 97 to 121 months from 51 to 63 months, and he sentenced Horne to 112 months. Supposing that without this enhancement, the judge would have sentenced him to 57 months (the midpoint of the lower-guidelines range), the difference is 55 months. This is considerable but less than half the sentence.

Excerpts from U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner's opinion, joined by judges Frank Easterbrook and Kenneth Ripple:The defendant's argument is wrong. All an acquittal means is that the trier of fact, whether judge or jury, did not think the government had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The facts that a sentencing judge finds in determining what sentence to impose--such facts as the defendant's criminal history, his cooperation or lack thereof in the government's investigation, and his remorse or lack thereof--need be found only by a preponderance of the evidence, the normal civil standard...You can think it slightly more likely than not that a defendant committed some crime without thinking it so much more likely that you would vote to convict him.

An inference that the jury found the defendant to be actually innocent of the gun charge would be particularly far-fetched because there is no doubt that his accomplice brandished a gun during the attempted robbery in question. The judge thought the acquittal was due to the fact that the jury had learned from the cross-examination of one of the defendant's accomplices that to convict the defendant of a second gun charge would subject him to a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence.

This is not a case in which a jury convicts a defendant of one very minor crime and acquits him of the serious crimes with which he was charged, and the judge then bases the sentence almost entirely on those crimes...A judge might reasonably conclude that a sentence based almost entirely on evidence that satisfied only the normal civil standard of proof would be unlikely to promote respect for the law or provide just punishment for the offense of conviction. That would be a judgment for the sentencing judge to make, and we would uphold it so long as it was reasonable in the circumstances.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6160905.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

 

My one and a half bitches of the day:

First, the half bitch: See my post from yesterday, I still have the same problem.

Anyway, my real bitch of the day is something that happened to a dear friend of mine this weekend.

She went to a dance on Saturday with this guy who was supposed to be her "friend". But he turned into a big b****** on the date. She told me that all he did for the majority of the date was text his friends, which is totally lame and shouldn't happen. It was a girls choice dance too so she paid for everything they did on the date and even made her own dress.

I told her that I would have to make it up to her and that I was sorry her date was a jerk. I then said something that has been on my mind for quite a while even though its way early I asked her *unofficially* to Prom. I told her it was not my official asking because Prom isn't until 21 April so its just a little early to be asking .

I told her that I am going to ask her to Prom sometime in March if she doesn't get asked because a guy who is still in High School deserves to go to a dance, especially Prom, in my opinion and so I figured (and told her) that if she doesn't get asked by sometime in March, I didn't tell her an approx. day but I am thinking somewhere around the 10th, that I would ask her.

Yeah, it spoils the surprise that can be part of the fun of going to a school dance but I have been thinking about asking her ever since last Prom because my friend Blaine wanted to ask her and so I was nice to him and took my other friend Hannah.

So, once again, my bitch of the day is all the stupid guys that don't know how to treat a lady. They should all be required to take dating lessons or something before being allowed to date.

 

Pop_Smith

Man what kind of signal are you sending this girl. You tell her, right after she has a bum date, that you might ask her "unofficially" to the Prom. Sounds like pity to me. If you want to take this girl to the prom go ahead and ask her now. What if Joe Blow asks her next week? April 21 is only 60 days away and not to early. Ann Landers.

 

What garmoon said. Dear Abby.

 

Your right DO IT NOW AND GET IT OVER WITH...or be like me and never date,never have and never will....I think


I just turned 32 >< (BTW I am disabled so no grammar jokes please)

 

Zippy found my case in 3 minutes...after I gave him model...I still can't believe it...

I looked for well over an hour...if not two...nothing but dead ends... Thanks Again...

 

I found the blue one in acouple other places but no shifting purple.

I cant find a new 939 MOTHERBOARD 939DUAL-SATA2 ><

 

@Zippy....I'm not married and haven't dated in ages but I'm going to have to and then father some little tax exemptions because they really screw you if your single without kids. When you're single, not only do you have to pay to (marginally) educate the kids of total strangers but you also have to pay extra for the privilege of not contributing to overpopulation! The way I see it, my taxes should be less, not more. If people want to give birth to little strains on the tax base, it should come out of their pocket and they should pay more for their unrestrained sexual habits and consequences...NOT ME! (As you can see, I just did my taxes LOL!)

 

ZIppyDSM
GIGABYTE MOTHERS..
NOTE THATS ALL I USE.TO ME THERE THE BEST..

AMD Socket 939

TAKE YE PICK,
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_List.aspx?VenderType=AMD&CPUType=socket+939

 

try and find a 939 with AGP new for sale...I like the asrock board most good reviews and PCI E option so I can upgrade from my agp 6800 bfg.

 

LOOK AT THOSE AT NEWEGG AND SEE IF YE CAN FIND A 939 WITH AGP..
20 PAGES TO CHECK OUT.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...RD+AGP&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all&Go.x=25&Go.y=38

 

The 939 boards are on there last leg and are a dying breed. The AM2 boards are pretty much the future now. but no doubt 939 had its glory.

 

ireland


please......if new egg had any I would have got it already they do not have any 939 agp,no one dose,well I did find soemthing

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4571397?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
bastard child of AGP not a good idea



http://www.monkeycircuit.com/Itemdesc~ic~MBD-MSI-K8MM3V~eq~~Tp~.htm
not to bad

mmm I guess you can find it if you look hard enough ><

ack I ahte it when they list 754 as 939 ><

 

Happy BDay Zippy

 

I would awoid the "monkey" at all costs! I had some dealings with them when I wanted a new motherboard and they were c---. Ended up going elsewhere!

 

I don't know exactly what you are looking for but this might be close.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1953306&CatId=1569

Their shipping is usually slightly higher but I never had problems dealing with them.

Jerry

 

Yeah, it was pretty close, probably too close, after a bum date to ask her to Prom and I probably shouldn't have done it, but oh well I can't change it now. *Shoots self in the foot*

It true about the whole Joe Blow asking her to Prom as knowing my luck if I don't do it by this weekend thats probably whats gonna happen, my mom would freak out if she found out because she would say its way too early but oh well.

Depending on when I get off on Saturday at my old job (last week of work in a concession stand! My new job I got three days ago has me doing 3rd party over-the-phone verification) I will probably do something with her if its not too late. If it is a bit late to go out I will probably just go over to her house to talk to her and officially ask her to Prom. Either that or I will do it tonight after dinner.

Thanks for the tip Jerry.

Ha ha, but yeah like I said I will do it Saturday, or hell maybe I will go do it after dinner tonight if she isn't busy.

With a bad-feeling-in-the-gut I say:

Peace