Canadian Court Rejects U.S. Request For Unrestricted Access to Megaupload Servers
Kim Dotcom has scored another victory in ongoing legal proceedings against Megaupload.
In a tweet, Dotcom announced that he has won "every court battle against the US Govt in New Zealand, Germany & Canada. Time for US courts to follow the trend."
Dotcom's note was based on a decision by the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario to reject a request by U.S. authorities to receive mirror images of 32 servers that were seized on January 19, 2012. The U.S. government argued that the systems were used as "database / number crunching machines" and should be examined forensically. The data volume is estimated to be "equivalent of that of 100 laptop computers".
However, the case is not closed as the judge found a lack of detail in what data would be disclosed and what not during a forensic investigation. Due to the volume of the data, the judge argues, there needs to be a clear definition of which data will be disclosed and which data will not. If the two parties are not able to agree on the data to be disclosed, the case may end up in court again.
This made me laugh pretty hard. WTF does that even mean?
Confuses me really.
Canada sucks for its taxes though, but when you bust your knee on an ATV and go through the MRI/Surgery without having to go through an insurance company or handed a big bill - those little extra taxes you really don't mind paying.
haha right? Was thinking the exact same.
Confuses me really.
Canada sucks for its taxes though, but when you bust your knee on an ATV and go through the MRI/Surgery without having to go through an insurance company or handed a big bill - those little extra taxes you really don't mind paying.
This made me laugh pretty hard. WTF does that even mean?
haha right? Was thinking the exact same.
While at it why not go after the us post office that surely have delivered a few bombs from a couple of people. Heck why not cut all electricity as well, those are also services that being used for crimes! /end sarcasm
(would not surprise me if we get there someday, the elected have for since long forgotten who have elected them in the first place!)
actually Canada did try to pass something that was like PIPA/SOPA. so did the U.K., Ireland, France and AUS. and NZ
Fail math much ? 100x 320gb = 32TB ... (nowhere near your number of 320TB)
Which is around half of the storage space I have in my computers at home ( only 2 of them )
But yes, the analogy was done by another idiot who can't crunch numbers...
But my laptop only has 160 GB of HDD space...
One of mine has a 250GB hard drive. Another has a 36GB hard drive.
You mean the same Canada that you have to wait possibly ~6 months with a broken hip before an Orthopedic surgeon will operate on you? Your taxes are essentially like paying for health insurance.
rofl, this drivel.
100 laptops = 50 Dell desktops = 23.333 (repeating of course) Stonehenge stones = 10,394 oranges.
If you ask me, that's quite a lot.
Except Harper and his cronies are trying to push ISP to track by law every e-mail, message so it can viewed at the hands of law enforcement without a warrant.
Also add, it includes cellular companies to track and allow law enforcement to view messages and emails sent from mobile phones.
The legislation is trying to be passed without second reading and amendments, so Canada is close to being worst than anything the U.S. has.
Well it is true, the Americans pay lower taxes and in return need to pay separately for health care, we get one massive tax bill which has all those services bundled into it, regardless if you want them or not...
Also the wait times here are getting a bit atrocious, the last time we had to go to emergency at a hospital there was a wait time of 10 hours to see a doctor.... That's some grade A "free" healthcare.
I'm not saying the american system is better than ours, but our system is also in major need of an overhaul!
W/e they tell you in the States about how the wait times are bad, etc, is incorrect. They are simply trying to make our healthcare system look bad so that you don't question yours. Even if there was on average a 1 month longer wait in Canada, its still better than being handed a big bill you can't afford or having to do monthly payments on an insurance which pays their employees on denying you payment.
But again, they will always tell you that any other health care system is bad. Yet the US Healthcare system is ranked far below ours. Ignorance is bliss.