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DOTCOM saga - updates
IainB:
The public denials against allegations of entrapment begin: Megaupload’s Planted Evidence Allegations are Baseless, U.S. Says
IainB:
Arstechnica reports that, curiously, an NZ media network pulls 500 radio ads touting Dotcom's new Mega service.
The NZ Herald reports that Dotcom: Music label pressure led to cancelled advertisements.
If that was done by the media network under duress and at the behest of the RIAA members - e.g., under threats to pull RIAA members' and record label business from the network - then it could be a restrictive trade practice or a monopoly practice.
I'm not sure about NZ - which to some, by now, might look a bit like the lawless old Wild West (e.g., after the Dotcom raid, etc.) - but I would have thought that such practices would be illegal in many/most of the developed countries.
Elsewhere Arstechnica reports that, in what seems like almost opposite form to the NZ government/police/judiciary, the Canadians may be made of sterner stuff and have got some decent laws and the integrity to uphold them, despite pressure from the US authorities: US rebuffed in effort to get copies of Canadian Megaupload servers.
Renegade:
Iain, no offense but...
If that was done by the media network under duress and at the behest of the RIAA members - e.g., under threats to pull RIAA members' and record label business from the network - then it could be a restrictive trade practice or a monopoly practice.
-IainB (January 17, 2013, 08:37 AM)
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If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has webbed feet like duck, a broad bill like a duck, it's probably a <censored but rhymes with: /> duck.
Setting aside "rules of logic" and "proofs", common sense needs to prevail at some point. What is it likely? It's a <censored but rhymes with: /> duck.
I'm not sure about NZ - which to some, by now, might look a bit like the lawless old Wild West (e.g., after the Dotcom raid, etc.) - but I would have thought that such practices would be illegal in many/most of the developed countries.
-IainB (January 17, 2013, 08:37 AM)
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Are you confusing "developed" with "sane" or "just"? They're not the same.
Pure & simple. Dotcom is a female mallard. The NZ establishment is a male mallard. It's mating season. What happens? Yep. You guessed it.
At this point, you need to be completely <censored but unfortunately doesn't rhyme with: /> brain dead to think that Dotcom is not being purposefully persecuted.
BTW - Good article finds there! :D :Thmbsup:
IainB:
@Renegade: Yes, the duck analogy occurred to me too, as I was writing the above. ;)
Renegade:
@Renegade: Yes, the duck analogy occurred to me too, as I was writing the above. ;)
-IainB (January 17, 2013, 08:13 PM)
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Ah, sorry. I was just being stupid silly last night. :D
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