New Zealand: U.S. can extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
"The six-year legal saga is widely seen as a test for how far the United States can reach globally to apply U.S. firms' intellectual property rights."
"The six-year legal saga is widely seen as a test for how far the United States can reach globally to apply U.S. firms' intellectual property rights."
"The law will now be sent for a full reconsideration and debate inside the parliament, during which activists will try and remove the controversial Article 11 and 13. Article 11 has been referred to by campaigners as instituting a 'link tax', by forcing tech companies like Google and Facebook to pay to use snippets of content on their own sites. Article 13 adds rules that make tech companies responsible for ensuring any copyrighted material is not spread over their platforms. Those rules could force technology companies to scan through everything their users post and check it doesn't include copyrighted material."
"Unused stamps accounted for more than $70 million in Post Office revenue during the three years Davidson's image was used. The court awarded Davidson a five percent royalty for those unused stamps."
"Taxpaying families are paying more for public school employees but getting less public education for their children in return."
"More than 20 percent of college students use their financial aid money to invest in cryptocurrencies, according to new findings by The Student Loan Report, a website for student loan information."
"It turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business."
"Calling the police on nonviolent license offenses is the adult equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum on the playground, except the temper tantrum doesn’t have a chance of ending in shots fired."
"It defies all reason that a man could go to prison for three decades for taking a sexy picture of a teenager who was deemed fully capable of consenting to sex. This is a travesty of justice, a violation of consenting adults' sexual freedoms, an abuse of mandatory minimum sentencing, a blow to states' rights, and an absurd waste of the FBI's time."
"'Oh come on, bruh. You're really going to tase him? He was sitting down,' shouts the bystander who captured the incident on camera. 'That's crazy. That's why I record everything.'"
"Just because a law is impossible to follow is not enough of a reason for a court to throw it out. So California's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday."