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US prosecutors drop link-related charges from Barrett Brown case?
- fiatmoney 13y agoWhat charges does that leave remaining?
- vonmoltke 13y agoFrom the main indictment, its the charge of possessing account information and credit card numbers from Stratfor subscribers with intent to defraud. The two smaller indictments with a total of 5 more charges are still intact, but I don't remember what those charges are.
- lost_name 13y agohttp://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/feds-indict-self-proclaimed-anonymous-spokesman-on-retaliation-conspiracy-charges.html/ http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/feds-indict-self-pro... ... Barrett Brown ... has been indicted on three federal charges: making an online threat, retaliating against a federal officer and conspiring to release the personal information of a U.S. government employee. The other 12 (11 of which were dropped as described in the main article): http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/new-federal-indictment-lists-12-more-charges-against-barrett-brown-once-the-self-proclaimed-spokesman-for-anonymous.html/?nclick_check=1 http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/new-federal-indictme...
- thatthatis 13y agoGood news for him. But I kinda wanted this to make it to the supreme court so the question of linking could be more summarily decided.
- ageisp0lis 13y agoI agree. I wanted to see the EFF's amicus brief, and for the Court to decide on the issue so that we could have good case law with hyperlinks as protected speech.
- rhizome 13y agoDo you want that outcome enough to get yourself charged for activities that would bring it about? After all, without a SCOTUS decision the fruit is still hanging on the vine for any of us to snatch.
- fiatmoney 13y agoThere's no reason the EFF can't release their amicus brief, even if there's no longer a reason for them to file it. Good arguments should be shared.
- thisiswrong 13y agoAre you serious? Why would you even say that? People like you are the problem. Linking to something, just like talking about something, is protected in most countries by free speech. The simple fact that this journalist was arrested is disgustingly totalitarian and should be of great concern. To everyone. Why would you want this to go all the way up the rotten vines of a corrupted court system that only gives favorable rulings to those with ties to the rulers?
- dublinben 13y agoA Supreme Court ruling upholding linking as free speech would be incredibly important.
- ryandrake 13y agoBut, a Supreme Court ruling equating linking with distribution would be a disaster. If I were the Internet I'd rather not roll the dice with a court consisting of people who remember black and white TV.
- notlisted 13y agoSorry, but that made me laugh and feel terribly old at the same time (touché, oh wait... so do I!). Can we use "played 78RPM records in their teenage bedrooms" instead? (Fun fact: "The date of the very last 78-rpm record is not known, although some claim that the last one issued in the U.S. was Chuck Berry's "Too Pooped to Pop " (Chess 1747), released in February 1960.)
- a3n 13y agoThe NRA pretty much never wants to settle 2nd Amendment issues at the Supreme Court for the same reason, you never really know which way the dice will roll. (Beyond that, it's much more lucrative for the NSA to have the doubt and controversy persist, because there will always be pro-2nd people who see the NRA as their best shot at grouping together to fight for their 2nd Amendment rights. That was my main motivation when I belonged to the NRA. "It's a profit deal.")
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- rhizome 13y agoYou wanted to turn him into a martyr? That doesn't seem very nice.
- thatthatis 13y agoNo, I wanted him to ultimately be vindicated by the highest court so as to protect us all in the future. Martyrs die, I wanted him to set a precident without getting harmed. Like Brown when he fought the board of education, or Johnson when he fought the state of Texas.
- rhizome 13y agoThe sentence he's facing is effectively a death sentence. Care to volunteer yourself?
- Zikes 13y agoBy that reasoning all of life is effectively a death sentence. Poetic, but not entirely logical.
- rhizome 13y agoI'm not sure I understand the relevance, care to elaborate?
- VogonWorkEthic 13y agoHe's saying you're full of shit
- rhizome 13y agoExcept...I'm not?
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- guelo 13y agoSo a US prosecutor gets to throw a man in jail for two years on trumped up charges and before any trial say "oopsies!" and suffer no consequences. Giving prosecutors enormous power and absolute immunity is a recipe for abuse, our justice system is fundamentally broken.
- hnisnotreddit 13y agoIn Canada, this would be grounds for "Malicious Prosecution", which is pretty much the only way to oust a prosecutor. I've seen it done only once with my own eyes; Lawyer was disbarred, and the now-former lawyer "settled" the criminal charges as a pro-se litigant (which I didn't know was possible) by paying a fine (literally, writing a cheque in court), and walking out the door a free man. I'd say giving people the ability to settle criminal charges as a civil matter is a much larger recipe for abuse, leading to Prosecutors not caring about the damage they do, even if their feet are held to the fire.
- vaadu 13y ago... used a particular hacking method called a sequel injection to exploit ... Are the legal docs not proofread?
- MPetitt 13y agoNot by anyone who has any idea what SQL is let alone how or why it might be injected.
- AnimalMuppet 13y agoA sequel injection? Isn't that patented by Hollywood?
- aspensmonster 13y agoYes. They have patents pending for prequel injection too.