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40hz:
Think 'avoidance conditioning' and it all becomes clear.-40hz (January 31, 2012, 09:42 AM)
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Just the fact that you knew the name of it - off the top of your head presumably - makes me a bit uneasy... :(
-Stoic Joker (January 31, 2012, 11:19 AM)
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Just 'so ya knows,' I did pull that term off the top of my head. 8)
Helped my GF study when she was getting her Master's in cognitive psych. ;D
I'm also a lifelong student of strategies and tactics - especially the 'neuro' variety.
Good thing I'm a basically nice person huh? :P
But the "head on a stake" bit is truly an accurate description of the feds motive.
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Times change. Regimes come and go. Laws keep being written and rewritten. Badges are sometimes displayed, and sometimes not. But tactics of coercion and intimidation remain the same no matter what.
Mostly because they work. :'(
wraith808:
Feds: We obtained MegaUpload conversations with search warrant
Renegade:
Feds: We obtained MegaUpload conversations with search warrant
-wraith808 (February 01, 2012, 10:49 PM)
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The FBI cites alleged conversations between DotCom and his top lieutenants, including e-mail and Skype instant-messaging logs. Some of the records go back nearly five years, to MegaUpload's earliest days as a cyberlocker service--even though Skype says "IM history messages will be stored for a maximum of 30 days" and the criminal investigation didn't begin until a few months ago.
Sources told CNET yesterday that Skype, the Internet phone service now owned by Microsoft, was not asked by the feds to turn over information and was not served with legal process.
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AND
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57362152-261/fbi-charges-megaupload-operators-with-piracy-crimes/
...sources said the feds began looking at the service months ago.
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Since I'm Canadian, I'm certain that there are portions of American English that I don't know... Is "search" a synonym for "surveillance" in American English? As far as I understand, using trojans/spyware isn't "searching", but is more akin to counter-intelligence or surveillance.
And don't you need to be served with a search warrant? I'm confused. :huh:
Meh... The president gets to assassinate children with predator drones in "surgical strikes" whenever he feels like it. I suppose none of it really matters. :-\
40hz:
This article is the singe best analysis of what actually went down with the MegaUpload bust:
What The Pundits Are Missing In The Megaupload Case This article is a must read because it addresses issues of criminal law and enforcement that have ramifications far beyond the Megauploads case (emphasis added):
The US charges against Dotcom, who was nabbed in a panic room clutching a sawed-off shotgun, are based on an indictment unsealed last week that accuses him and six others of criminal copyright and three other charges.
Contrary to many reports, those other charges are not about money-laundering and racketeering but instead about conspiracy to commit those crimes. The distinction is important because conspiracy charges are a key law enforcement tool for the federal government that, critically, do not require proving the underlying crime.
“It’s a huge engine for the government and one of its bread and butter statutes,” says Miriam Baer, a criminal law specialist at Brooklyn Law School.
Under federal law, a person is guilty of conspiracy if they agree with another person to commit an illegal act and then any person in the conspiracy does something to move the plan forward. This means that the conspiracy doesn’t have to be successful—only that someone performs an “overt act.”
Baer says this can be “particularly easy” to show because an overt act can be anything from a phone call to an email message. “There’s usually plenty of overt acts to choose from.”
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I mentioned this in another post I recently made. And I apologize for cutting and pasting it a second time here.
But it's an important enough article that I think it really needs to be read by everyone who is concerned with where the US is heading with its latest War on Communism... International Terrorism... 'Foreign' IP Piracy.
:huh:
IainB:
@40hz: Thanks for the link. I learned something there.
The whole thing seems to stink something awful.
... where the US is heading with its latest War on Communism... International Terrorism... 'Foreign' IP Piracy.
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Maybe you could add "Freedom" to that list?
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