Also has anyone else ever seen when the police do a "raid" on the bootleg dvd sellers on Canal Street in NYC? I've seen it happen a few times and the police move as slowly as possible, it seems to allow everyone time to pack up all their shit and escape. Sometimes enough time for people to pack up entire carts and run down the street with them. Not exactly a possibility for this dude, clearly. No idea what the sentence time is for someone caught with pirated material in real life is compared to online possession/distribution, or maybe it's the same?

"Without evidence of this nature, defendant is not "media"." Well now if that had ended with not "journalist" maybe, not "news" maaaybe. But not media? Defendant is definitely "media". Libel, broke, and probably super sad media apparently, but still media, distributing content.

But what about the annoying little ticker twitter feed in US fb? Can we get a little censorship there maybe? As much as I love people knowing how often I "like" cheese and other highly fascinating things...

I hope they put a beret on that cannonball before they fired it.

This would have saved 11 year old Lindsay Lohan a lot of work. However current Lindsay Lohan would probably just use it to buy crack.

This immediately made me think of the sea kittens incident. Which I would have thought was a brilliant strategy to save fish from being eaten. When I was 7...

It sounds like this is a topic you have some interest in? Would you say that this qualifies as "hacktivism"? That's the word I see most often used for this type of situation anyway. Just a research nerd wanting to pick your brain for research.