Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Megaupload judge quits case after "US is enemy" comment...

The judge overseeing the Megaupload extradition case has stepped down after one of his comments caused his impartiality to be questioned.

Judge David Harvey described the US as the "enemy" while discussing copyright law, at a conference last week.

It attracted attention because he had been dealing with the US government's request that New Zealand hand over employees of the file-sharing site to face copyright and fraud charges.

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The judge had noted that at present it was legal for citizens in New Zealand to hack DVD region codes to watch disks designed to be restricted to other countries, adding that TPP would change this.

"Under TPP and the American Digital Millennium copyright provisions you will not be able to do that, that will be prohibited," he said.

"If you do you will be a criminal, that's what will happen.

"There are all sorts of ways this whole thing is being ramped up and if I could use Russell's tweet from earlier on - we have met the enemy and he is US." Full story...

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