Comment It's not free (Score 1) 703
BBC News is not free. I pay for it with my taxes and TV licence.
BBC News is not free. I pay for it with my taxes and TV licence.
Well yes and no. For some matters the Law Lords are the highest court in the land (This would be similar to the American Supreme Court) (The Law lords do not make law, but interoperate it) on others the European union is the highest, and should you wish to take an issue further (not higher) you could.
It is worth noting that on such matters where Europe makes the law, it is only by act of UK parliament, and can be removed by that parliament... and future parliament are not bound by and may remove themselves should they wish.
Just because a parliament gives the power to make law to another body, it is not necessarily a loss of sovereignty. For example, many parliament will let an unelected body of experts draught law on matters such as technical safety and flight.
anyone can make my law... and i see no issue of sovereign power. but when they control the money in my pocket (The Euro) then the throne of power really has moved to a different place.
Ask a bugler where he hides his money... ask a hacker what browser he uses.
I have tried to have no bias in my comment, but if you detect it... I am English if they help contextualise it.
1. That the law was broken in the UK, and US should bring the complaint to the British authorities. If they do not find the resolve they wish through authorities than, and only then should they invoke any extradition agreement.
2. That is Britain or any country does not like the terms of an agreement, then they should have not entered into it. If (as in this case) there is a massive disparity in the in the guilty term, then we (The English) should have pushed for a clues cover what the British define as cruel or unusual or extreme... such as the death penalty, or 60 years.
3. All both UK and USA have a sense of honour and pride that has been damaged in this... Embarrassment on the part of the USA that needs to make out that some who tried the password '12345' (or whatever) is crafty hacker (The reality was a craft-less system). The UK that needs to show it's not America's bitch. Both have something to gain in dragging this out for a bit.
4. I have no doubt that the American court will recognise such things as 'compulsive behaviour', reduced responsibility. I think that American court has to recognise circumstantial evidence, and other evidence from a partner as being a fundamental part of any extradition agreement. I personally would like to Americans better manage that.
5. I find it hard to understand why we see 'stupidity' as mitigating on the part of the Hacker and damning on the part of the dipshits that set up a swiss-cheese of a system for the Americans. Sure I believe that the hacker broke the law and should get a fine (that is balanced to personal circumstance), and maybe a few months time and record. But he was not responsible for the security of system, and not negligent of that system, (and he did not damage the system, but i reconise the endless damage to organisations assurance and dependence on it) and it is my opinion the negligent party (who has not broken law, but a contract to supply a 'secure' system) who is most responsible for the cost (in terms of embarrassment) and the cost of audit, and the cost of locking an open door.
Saying, "Night is day and let's not quibble over the definition" doesn't make night and day the same thing. Piracy is infringement, not stealing.
Being that infringement of copyright could get someone the wrath of RIAAs frivolous claims of damages and stealing something of low value as a first offence will get them a warning and a suspended sentence. Semantics is something they would be willing to argue.
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