“The United States has charged Kim Dotcom with criminal liability for the acts of his Megaupload cloud storage users, a form of secondary copyright infringement. But no criminal statute for secondary copyright infringement exists.”
“Accordingly, the request for preliminary injunction is DENIED. Should the parties choose to string this case out to trial on the merits, the Court encourages reasonable discovery intercourse as they navigate the peaks and valleys of litigation, perhaps to reach a happy ending. It is so ORDERED.”
“I think the people of Pennsylvania should be confident that this conviction is going to stand.”
“The punishment is the restriction of liberty; no other rights have been removed by the sentencing court. Therefore the sentenced offender has all the same rights as all others who live in Norway.”
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Confessed killer Breivik to be held in ‘preventive detention’ - latimes.com
This wasn’t quoted from a lawyer, but from a fact sheet by the Norwegian correctional system. I’m posting it because a lawyer probably, or at least should have, written it, and it’s relevant.
“This is an incident where it seemed the photographer was doing his job taking photographs, and the police overacted and attempted to intimidate him and block him, leading to his arrest.”
