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Death Threats in an Odd Turnabout

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Eóin:
Besides if you read these bits,

Mr Crossley's revelation came at the close of last week's Patents County Court hearing into 27 people accused of illegally sharing copyrighted pornography, of which MediaCAT is the exclusive licensee.

Of the thousands of letters ACS:Law has sent to alleged infringers, these 27 cases are the only ones to be heard before a judge. ACS:Law attempted to drop the cases just days before its first court hearing earlier this month but was told it needed the court's permission.

Judge Colin Birss, QC, called the situation "absolutely extraordinary" and said: "I am not happy about this. I get the distinct impression that at every twist and turn there is a desire to avoid judicial scrutiny."
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It's sounds like the 'death threats' were just an excuse. In reality it seems the law firm never want to go to trial, instead they just wanted to extort money from people through fear.

Renegade:
...extort... through fear.
-Eóin (February 07, 2011, 07:03 AM)
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Nice choice of words there. :) Really. It's so bang on.

BTW -- With the increasing number of laws on the books in many of the countries that people here live in, we/you're all criminals. Gotta love lawyers...  :-*

Stoic Joker:
Gotta love lawyers...-Renegade (February 07, 2011, 07:31 AM)
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Oh and indeed we do ... I like mine best boiled in oil...

 :D

nosh:
I hate to see all this hate being focused on perfectly reasonable people. I sure hope no harm comes to them.

Perfectly reasonable"We are happy that the country's President, Pratibha Patil, has given her consent to the Maharashtra Government to enact a law wherein both the seller and the buyer of a pirated CD/DVD would straightaway be sentenced to three months of prison without bail if caught red-handed. A fine would not be as rigid a punishment as a three-month sentence," reasons Dalal.
http://www.indiantelevision.com/aac/y2k9/aac198.php

I'd also like to take this opportunity to dispel false rumors about Indians starving. As you can see all it takes to feed yourself for three whole months here is to buy a pirated CD or DVD. All thanks to the MPA's well thought out initiatives.

Renegade:
Pirated DVDs... Jeez... DVDs are defective by design due to... Sigh... That's just another rant that everyone already knows.

It's just so moronic that you have to pirate content in order to get decent quality. The crap you get through iTunes is really bad. Just piss-poor resolution. Sigh... 

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