Greek editor Kostas Vaxevanis acquitted over Swiss bank list
Greek journalist Vaxevanis, who published names of 2,000 suspected tax evaders, cleared of privacy breach.
Much more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/01/greek-editor-kostas-vaevanis-acquitted
He told Daybreak: “It is a situation which could easily turn into a witch hunt, a lot of big stars are frightened.
“Where is it going to end?
“I hope they (the police) concentrate on finding people like Jimmy Savile who were manipulating girls.”
Well Mr. Clifford, nobody gives a damn about frightened stars when taking into account the traumatized children involved. Secondly Jimmy Savile wasn’t merely “manipulating” girls. Back to the “drawing board” and try another strategy to defend your potentially pedophile clients.
More:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-sex-abuse-probe-1412743
The BBC yesterday refused to comment about a Newsnight investigation into the man, which is currently with the corporation’s lawyers.
However Iain Overton, editor of the London-based Bureau of Investigation, claimed yesterday morning: “We’ve got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile”.
Michael Crick, a former Newsnight presenter and now a political correspondent with Channel 4 News, later said: “[A] ‘senior political figure’ due to be accused tonight by BBC of being paedophile denies allegations and tells me he’ll issue a libel writ agains the BBC.”
When asked by Dr Clare about his freedom from emotional attachments to people Savile boasted “I’m not constrained pretty well by anything”.
“The tough thing in life is ultimate freedom, that’s when the battle starts. Ultimate freedom is what it’s all about, because you’ve got to be very strong to stand for ultimate freedom.
“Ultimate freedom is the big challenge, now I’ve got it, and I can tell you there’s not many of us that have got ultimate freedom. I’ve got some considerable clout as well, all over. That is where the battle, the personal battle starts now.”
“I’ve managed to handle complete and ultimate utter freedom. It’s marvellous but it’s dangerous.
“It would be easy to be corrupted by many things, when you’ve got ultimate freedom, especially when you’ve got clout. I could be corrupted.”
He goes on to boast he has “all the money that was ever printed” and as such can do what he wants when he wants, stating “it is all too much”.
Savile explained how he never sleeps in the same place two nights in a row and carries a shoulder bag that has not been completely unpacked for “nearly 30 years”.
His obsession with making money was questioned, with Savile revealing an odd motive for always keeping a new car in the driveway. Knowing what we now know, it seems he prepared to be ready to go on the run.
Savile’s relationship with his mother, who he called “the duchess”, was complex, he notes she never showed tactile affection but says she raised him for the first half of his life and he raised her for the second half. He barely mentions his father.
After his mother’s death he spent five days with her body before the funeral and claimed it was the happiest time of his life, when quizzed by Dr Clare Savile claims that in those days she was “all mine”.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Seena Fazel, who has studied dozens of child sex abuse cases, has viewed the transcripts and told Channel 4 News that he believes Savile’s problems stem from unresolved issues with childhood material and emotional poverty.
“There seemed to very little emotional warmth or support in growing up,” Dr Fazel explained.
“He makes it very clear he always lived a solitary life and is not interested in friendship…Clare’s conclusion is that this is a man who has profound psychological problems.”
Dr Fazel believes that Savile’s offending does not appear to be motivated by sexual urges but rather a lack of boundaries, both internal and external.
He explained that Savile believed he was above the law and kept himself detached from other people who could provide balance to his character.
Dr Fazel also notes that Savile is obsessed with power, which is rooted in a “sense of powerlessness growing up”, this is highlighted as the root of his problems.
“In a way one can see his offending now as a way of enforcing his power, it’s essentially an act of power, abusing power, rather than someone who has an unusual libido.”
More:
http://www.channel4.com/news/how-jimmy-savile-revealed-all-in-the-psychiatrists-chair
Dutch language news article:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/85303/advies-bescherm-user-generated-content-beter-in-auteursrecht.html
Team GhostShell said it was leaking the data in protest against the Russian government’s willingness to plough its revenues into espionage “even though the country is going through hard times and many people are starving”. In a notice accompanying the release, in which it describes Russia as “a state of tyranny and regret”, the group boasts that it is only releasing a sample of the huge cache of data it has pwned.
Much more:
Local ISPs such as Elisa and TeliaSonera offer cloud services where their customers can store TV shows for later viewing over the Internet. CIAPC says the services fall outside the scope of private copying “fair use” and therefore require a license to operate legally. The ISPs are ignoring demands to shut down the services and now face legal action.
More:
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-threatens-to-sue-isps-over-tv-show-piracy-121102/
They’re the ones you don’t see on the news, begging for help and panicking over the situation, because the preppers are sitting in their homes, eating their stored food, drinking their filtered water, double-checking their shotgun loads and staying off the streets. Preppers are the ones NOT looting, NOT complaining about the Red Cross, and NOT diving in dumpsters to find food while waiting around for the government to show up and save them.
Preppers are the new prophets. And those who failed to prepare are the new homeless.
Nope, it’s not the Ministry of Economic Affairs promoting business innovation and flexible copyright…it’s the JUSTICE department
Dutch Minister of Security and Justice presented the first part of the Copyright Commission’s advice ‘A flexible regulation for user-generated content‘
In the current Dutch copyright system, exceptions and limitations are meant to balance the interests of right holders and the public interest in regard of certain unauthorized uses of copyrighted works. However, according to the ‘Flexible Copyright’ study, not every situation fits well within the current set of limitations and exceptions. The current limitations and exceptions are too narrowly formulated to respond to new technologies, such as search engines, user-generated content, cloud computing, data mining, distance learning and transformative uses. This leads to court proceedings with different outcomes.
The study shows that flexibility to cope with these new situations could be obtained by creating a new, open norm in the copyright system. The norm would have to comply with the three-step test and would coexist with the current exhaustive list of limitations and exceptions in the Dutch Copyright Act. From a legal perspective, flexibility with specific evaluation criteria could be more satisfactory than an exhaustive list of exceptions, the study points out. An open norm would more likely facilitate ‘tomorrow’s inventions’.
An open norm would allow unlicensed use of some known uses of copyrighted work that currently require licensing. Thus, adding an open norm to the current copyright system could lead to some economic effects. However, the study says that it is unlikely that rewards for creators would be significantly affected.
Previously:
Dutch Collecting Society BUMA/Stemra Criticizes Commissioner Kroes, also states that the Dutch Government is “laundering illegal content”
http://vrritti.com/2010/11/11/dutch-collecting-society-bumastemra-criticizes-commissioner-kroes-also-states-that-the-dutch-government-is-laundering-illegal-content/
And to have that website then redirect to the legal verdict regarding the site takedown. The operator of Klokkenluideronline.nl (Whistlebloweronline.nl) has also been ordered to make sure the “insulting information” would be taken down from search engines and other websites. Thirdly, he will not be allowed to call those he has insulted (lawyers) or visit their offices.
The Dutch Alex Jones, Micha Kat, has now gone and moved his Klokkenluideronline.nl domain to Klokkenluideronline.net. But that website may not be safe for long. In The Netherlands it is apparently much more difficult to take down a website filled with predominantly pirated goods, than it is to take down a website with news articles.
Meanwhile, the gentleman in the video below freaks out over this ordeal (Dutch language) and is labeling these practices as Nazi practices. He feels that if anything, only the one article should have been blocked, not the entire website.
Update: the Dutch whistleblower website http://www.klokkenluideronline.net domain has been taken down by authorities. Links containing that domain name can now be found on klokkenluideronline.is. They may also still be available via archive.org or Google’s Cache.
Blocked website: http://klokkenluideronline.nl/
Alternative location: http://klokkenluideronline.net/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/01/us/2012-sandy-POD-3.html#/?slide=15
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/01/us/2012-sandy-POD-3.html#/?slide=16
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/01/us/2012-sandy-POD-3.html#/?slide=17
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/01/us/2012-sandy-POD-3.html#/?slide=19
