Mike Nifong – the disgraced former district attorney who prosecuted the Duke lacrosse case – has turned in his law license and had to note that he never framed it… because his dog chewed it up. Courtesy of The Smoking Gun, here is Nifong’s letter to the North Carolina State Bar explaining the condition of his license…
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It is said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. If so, then this judge’s comprehension of technology is downright lethal.
In federal court in Los Angeles last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian, who is presiding over a lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America against TorrentSpy, ruled that TorrentSpy must turn over to prosecutors the RAM in its server.
This is not a joke. The judge has declared that the information in the RAM is evidence and that it has to be handed over. She has told TorrentSpy to unplug the RAM and give it to the prosecution.
Will she subsequently charge TorrentSpy with destroying evidence when it’s determined that there isn’t any data on the chips?
That has got to be the dumbest ruling that I have ever seen a judge make, or one of the dumbest anyway....
Let me get this straight…
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wants to make “attempted” copyright infringement a crime.
Among other things, Gonzales is calling for life imprisonment for software piracy.
It logically follows, then, that the entire frickin’ U.S. Justice Department – and a damn huge chunk of the rest of the federal government – should be sentenced to life in prison for its continued piracy of the PROMIS software.
To this day, the Justice Department has not paid Inslaw a dime for what was proven in court to be a clear case of software piracy by the federal government.
If this isn’t a grandiose case of “chutzpah”, I don’t know what is....
There is now a petition being circulated throughout Rockingham County (note: file is in Acrobat format) calling for the removal of Ron Price from the school board.
And Penny Owens, one of the unsuccessful candidates for school board, has found what is apparently the North Carolina statute calling for removal of a school board member on grounds of immoral conduct:
...§ 115C‑39. Removal of board members; suspension of duties by State Board. (a) In case the State Board of Education has sufficient evidence that any member of a local board of education is not capable of discharging, or is not discharging, the duties of his office as required by law, or is guilty of immoral or disreputable conduct, the State Board of Education shall notify the chairman of such board of education, unless such chairman is the offending member, in which case all other members of such board shall be