update:.

The blog was removed, but still a Google cache

just wrote about the rules of great concern in the UK, which left Anton Vickerman, the operator of the website SurfTheChannel television with links to a maximum of ten years in prison. The load is the most ambiguous of "conspiracy to commit fraud", which is not surprising, because still do not know what really TCC did was illegal, of course, was not a violation of copyright, since similar sites in the UK were considered non-infringement in the past. These sites do not host pirated content, links to video evidence on other sites and there is no evidence that their support operatives to load third party content. At worst, it can be argued that they were somehow implicit

encouraging

• its users post infringing content and post links, so that "conspiracy to defraud" About is just the charge that only he could get. The UK has a remarkably low bar to charges of conspiracy, which can be used to prosecute people who got on the nerves of someone without breaking the law, which was controversial for some time .

But even when it comes to the conspiracy charge, there are serious questions must be answered, especially after a look at this collection of notes from a study published by anonymous blogger. I take this information with a grain of salt, because the source is not identified, and can not be ignored that the notes are on one side and focus on the flaws in the prosecution case by what may be another important aspect of the story. But there is enough specific information about the event it seems unlikely that the notes are wrong, and some of the things that happened are very bad, no matter what other evidence was presented.

First, there are several things that the judge who are related:

judge let the jury's choice to lead soon after as a matter of law who knowingly link to infringing content is illegal, even if no offense in the UK; ignores the trial judge of the Supreme Court

SportsRadar which states that if the offense takes place takes place in the country is based on the server (link to illegal content legal in Spain, which is based SurfTheChannel );

judge stated that "if I'm wrong, then a higher court of law will resolve it,"

What

the entertainment industry has wanted all along was simply to be a link to illegal content, so that revolves around the interpretation of different laws to try to do. From the sound of the judge let this happen to some extent, despite the precedents to the contrary. Note then move on to detail the activities of fact, the Hollywood private group, supported by an independent research Vickerman (unbeknownst to the police) and then helped set up the raid on their offices. Her research included spending by prospective homebuyers to access your home, and tell the service providers (such as your Internet service provider) who has been selling counterfeit DVDs for sharing information about it . There was even a dispute as to whether or not wearing a strange Vickerman

beard

at some point, but details are unclear, and the agent said the court lost the logbook on the incident. This fact also admitted carrying out about 15 of these surveillance operations every month. Other statements of fact show that was very careless in their methods of gathering evidence, and had a clear objective to close STC, regardless of legal authority:

Ltd. FACT support staff to assist in the management Vickerman raid with a USB flash drive with a replacement home must be placed on the site SurfTheChannel that says "This site is under investigation," despite no legal authority to do so and in violation of the Computer Misuse Act 1990; DONE entrepreneur Ben Clelland Ltd supports to copy all the evidence Vickerman computer on a USB drive, put the USB into your pocket and leave the house without alerting the police that there are evidence or bagging and labeling thereof. All forensic evidence in cases arising from the USB drive.

DONE

contractor Clelland Ltd Ben admits that "a mistake" by failing to accompany a write-blocker on your computer before examining the test data from USB drives. All dates of creation of data files have changed.

not know the details of the procedure in the UK, but it seems that there must be serious doubts about the admissibility of such evidence. The other component of the case of FACT was their star witness, Brendan DeBeasi, who had been involved with the STC in the past and has admitted that the site offers for "knees" to the highest bidder. DeBeasi is facing charges in the United States, and testified in exchange for immunity and more:

DeBeasi said he did not adjust his testimony to help support despite the fact that his immunity agreement with the United States depends on "good performance" in pursuing Vickerman;

DeBeasi MPAA supports offered him a job shortly after he agreed to cooperate in pursuing Vickermans

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