Preservation of evidence. It's a trade show. Up for a few days, gone forever afterward. Along with the physical evidence of infringement, which is one reason an emergency seizure would have been permitted.
The infringer also does NOT have a physical presence in the US, but is marketing their product here, so intercepting infringing devices and recovering judgment monies would be difficult at best unless the booth was seized.
I don't know if there is an equivalent in the US, but in Canada, it's a felony for a public servant to refuse to return a person's property following a legal demand.
Each side is limited in the number of jurors they can remove from the pool without cause. A juror owning a patent wouldn't have been an issue that would cause suspicions of prejudice at voir dire, since both sides had patents on the table in this case.
GoDaddy was free to voice their opinion on SOPA/PIPA, and they did so. Their customers were also free to express their opinion that GoDaddy was wrong, and they did so as well. That expression happened to involve removing their domains from GoDaddy's service.
Neither side had their freedom of speech revoked. Freedom of speech is not freedom from the consequences of that speech.
AAA is considered prime lending. No default risk at all. A drop from that point means there's at least some risk of default, which means the debt will cost the US more to maintain, as lenders will require more interest to cover the risk, no matter how slight that is.
The difference between AAA and AA+ might be half a percent in interest. Doesn't seem like a lot, but on a debt in the trillions of dollars, it can hit hundreds of billions of dollars extra every year in interest.
That has to be factored into new budgets, which are already heavy with red ink.
RIAA is the last group that has the privilege to complain about piracy and to advocate censorship in the fight against it. Unless, that is, they want to reap what they sow and be censored themselves.
CRIA, RIAA's Canadian arm, recently settled a huge class action suit for... wait for it... copyright infringement. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Actually, because the lawyer threatened endless frivolous lawsuits, he could be censured from the courts. (If anyone remembers a certain Florida lawyer with a penchant for submitting porn as evidence as well as his huge volume of frivolous lawsuits, he was censured and eventually disbarred because of it.)
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More like No Nut Ever Again.
A few notes.
Why would they do a fast seizure?
Preservation of evidence. It's a trade show. Up for a few days, gone forever afterward. Along with the physical evidence of infringement, which is one reason an emergency seizure would have been permitted.
The infringer also does NOT have a physical presence in the US, but is marketing their product here, so intercepting infringing devices and recovering judgment monies would be difficult at best unless the booth was seized.
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I don't know if there is an equivalent in the US, but in Canada, it's a felony for a public servant to refuse to return a person's property following a legal demand.
http://yourlaws.ca/criminal-code-canada/337-public-servant-refusing-deliver-property
If there is not an equivalent, you should ask your politicians "Why not?"
And I see that the court is in GA, and it suddenly fails to surprise me.
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Each side is limited in the number of jurors they can remove from the pool without cause. A juror owning a patent wouldn't have been an issue that would cause suspicions of prejudice at voir dire, since both sides had patents on the table in this case.
Lawyers win! Flawless Victory!
BSF... didn't they "handle" the SCO case against Novell and IBM?
If so, I think Mr. Prince will have a very hard time winning. :/
Stay classy, Ubisoft.
The article implies that Congress isn't already rogue. :p
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GoDaddy was free to voice their opinion on SOPA/PIPA, and they did so. Their customers were also free to express their opinion that GoDaddy was wrong, and they did so as well. That expression happened to involve removing their domains from GoDaddy's service.
Neither side had their freedom of speech revoked. Freedom of speech is not freedom from the consequences of that speech.
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AAA is considered prime lending. No default risk at all. A drop from that point means there's at least some risk of default, which means the debt will cost the US more to maintain, as lenders will require more interest to cover the risk, no matter how slight that is.
The difference between AAA and AA+ might be half a percent in interest. Doesn't seem like a lot, but on a debt in the trillions of dollars, it can hit hundreds of billions of dollars extra every year in interest.
That has to be factored into new budgets, which are already heavy with red ink.
RIAA is the last group that has the privilege to complain about piracy and to advocate censorship in the fight against it. Unless, that is, they want to reap what they sow and be censored themselves.
CRIA, RIAA's Canadian arm, recently settled a huge class action suit for... wait for it... copyright infringement. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/735096--geist-record-industry-faces-liability-over-infringement
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/92034/canadian-record-labels-pay-45-million-to-settle-piracy-claims/
Microsoft - Failing at common sense since the 80's.
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McCarthy approves of your post.
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Actually, because the lawyer threatened endless frivolous lawsuits, he could be censured from the courts. (If anyone remembers a certain Florida lawyer with a penchant for submitting porn as evidence as well as his huge volume of frivolous lawsuits, he was censured and eventually disbarred because of it.)
Stay classy, TSA.
Best article ever.
Now if SCOTUS would read this article on any potential appeal of a forfeiture, I'd bet pennies to dollars that COICA would be struck down in seconds.
Obvious ruling is obvious.
Yeah, yeah... I had to say it.
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Correct on all parts. The only ones who would have a valid cause to DMCA the video are ABC and Disney (ABC's parent company).
Wait... RIAA not supporting a heavy handed approach to copyright? Someone send a thermometer down to Hell, as I think they're having snowstorms there.