Yes rewriting the legacy systems can be prohibitive cost wise, but also technically. I worked as a S370 Assembler programmer in banking for a number of years. The base code had been developed and maintained since the 1970's. A number of attempts to replace the core code with higher level language solutions failed at the cost of years of development time and $10m's. At one point a proposed solution to process overnight batch processing couldn't run faster that 36 hours elapse on the fastest hardware available at the time.

S230, if the platform is not acting as a publisher then it is not legally responsible for the actions of its users.

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Paul LeRoux was living in Holland at this time, Used British English coming from Zimbabwe & South Africa & kept âoeUSâ business hours as he was building his RX Limited, Online Pharmacy business in America at the time. He was a crypto expert having written E4M & suspected as the author of TrueCrypt. Has been in jail since 2012 so has had no opportunity to use the genesis blocks.

USA getting most of the Covid 19 from Europe is not true. There have been 3 genetic splits in the Virus, Type A the original, Type B a mutation from A & Type C a mutation from B. USA & Australia have predominately Type A showing early infections. Type B is largely contained in China while Europe has Type C. This shows Europe did not infect the USA! https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

He wrote a book called "The English Constitution" ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All this crap about controlling who, what and how people can enjoy the Olympic experience is the reason I'm bored with it and will not be watching a single event.

These Samsung guys are the new Microsoft with all the hype about non existing products. Can't they just tell us when they have a product for sale? I want to know what I can buy today, not what I might or might not be able to buy in 7 years time!

I was running something like FreeBSD 4.3 with KDE as my primary desktop (refused to go from Win98 to XP so went BSD instead) at the time of the "BSD is dieing, netcraft confirms it" meme. Believe you me I was there and I took it very personally at the time, how could someone say my beloved desktop of choice was dieing! ....hang on a minute that was their plan all along... bloody trolls. Was probably those pesky linux troll users slagging off the original BSD unix systems in the early 2000's. I get the same thing today from Fandriod trolls slagging off my current BSD distribution known as OSx & iOS.

The FBI coming over here to New Zealand and thinking they can trample over the instructions of NZ Courts and also rights and civil liberties of a New Zealand resident is pretty harsh I think!

We sent French Secret agents to prison in New Zealand in the past. I see no good reason why we can't send a couple of FBI chaps behind bars for committing illegal acts on the visit to New Zealand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

Nice post Anonymous FBI person.

First the current act of NZ Parliament in this case is the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, not 2009 as you cite.

Further in the current act. 113 Powers of persons called to assist
(1) Every person called on to assist a person exercising a search power is subject to the control of the person with overall responsibility for exercising that power.
(2)..(j)copy any document, or part of a document, that the person exercising the power has determined may be lawfully copied.

In this case the FBI can not exceed the powers of the NZ Police. The NZ Court procedure was for the evidence to be held in safe custody until a court hearing was to decide if the FBI would be given any access at all. The NZ Police Officer left the FBI in an evidence room without any supervision at which point the FBI cloned the 18 hard dives and left the building and sent them to the USA via FedEX WITHOUT permission from the NZ Police. This is absolutely illegal. The NZ Police had no legal standing to override the NZ Courts decision for due process to decide if the FBI would be granted access, ergo the FBI had no legal basis for carrying out their illegal acts of copyright infringement and contempt of court on New Zealand soil.

Time for the FBI agents to be arrested for committing a crime in New Zealand. We arrested and sent French secret agents to jail for violating NZ Laws in the Rainbow Worrior bombing in the past. There as absolutely no good reason the FBI should believe they can act above the law in New Zealand and get away with it!!!!!

Yeah, it might appear that the NZ Police would have been authorized to make a legal copy but that is not what happened. The FBI where left in a room with the evidence and before the NZ Police officer got back to the room they took copies and left, without telling the officer, and shipped the cloned hard drives back to the USA via FedEX.

The FBI has clearly broken the sovereign rights of New Zealand here and also failed to comply with a New Zealand court procedure that demanded that the defense would be granted a court hearing to decide if the FBI would be given any rights at all to the data. The FBI agents should be charged with an offense and NZ should demand they be extradited back to New Zealand for a court hearing to face charges of illegal copyright infringement and contempt of court.

For the 3rd or 4th time in this story you've posted the same thing. And yet again I'll reply that the laws you cite do not apply to copying anything in NEW ZEALAND. The FBI has no jurisdiction in New Zealand and must comply with NZ courts. In this case the NZ courts set a hearing date to decide if the FBI should have access to any information, the FBI ignored the NZ Courts and simply copied and FedEx'ed the 18 hard drives copied out of New Zealand without even telling the NZ Police first.

In fact that is exactly what has happened in this case. Before the extradition hearing due in August the FBI instructed the NZ Police and Crown Law office to argue in court that the defense should not have access to any existence. The latest ruling by the judge overruled the FBI's request and said that under the New Zealand Bill of Rights the defense should have access to all the information that has to date been denied to them.