Another Koltai Rant of a personal nature. It would appear to me that the Supreme Court in New South Wales is more interested in clearing it’s docket than ensuring that justice is served. This might be because yesterday, I lost my case (filed in March 2007) against Tricom Equities. Or it might be [...]
Most people in Australia don’t understand the iiNet trial. They think that either iiNet failed to follow it’s obligations under the copyright legislation or that iiNet were setup by DTECNET to take the fall that would create precedent in law that will require all ISP’s to dob in their customers, irregardless of actual proof. [...]
Flashback – 1999 – Sydney, Federal Courtroom 23B I carried a box with 5,382 page phone bill to court with me every day. I was ATA Telstra for what I like to term, “inaccurate billing practices”. The Judge upon sitting down would look over his courtroom and espy me and the box in front [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is an article written by an occasional misogynist for the consumption of open minded readers. Feminists may take exception to the conclusions reached and may possibly be offended. The sixties heralded the arrival of near goof proof birth control. The weapon that women of the world needed to finally become equal [...]
The latest craze (meme) on Facebook is co-op farming. The backbone mainstay of the communist co-operatives and Israeli Kibutzes, localized farms have proven to be vital when attempting to provide food for a decentralized population (more than 5 miles from the food growing establishment (farm, dairy, piggery, hatchery, etc) What about Coles, [...]
We have noticed of Late that the US Judiciary don't seem to have all the facts pertainent to file sharing cases, relative to the issue of damages – or if they do, they are failing in their instructions to the Juries. Whether this is due to poor representation, or lack of adequately informed expert witnesses, [...]
It seems the Big studios have finally recognised the value of YouTube as an identifier of valuable new talent. After all it isn’t every day that someone can show casting agents and producers a “pre-approved” Showreel. Pre-approved? Well, viewed, by millions; thereby suggesting “Star Quality in relation to the actors, performers and possibly “No.1 [...]
How binary is the law? By that I mean, how black and white is it? Let's look at a couple of current legal issues and try to make some sense of the legality, the humanity, the social equity of it all. First there is the case of the quadriplegic man in WA who the courts [...]
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch unequivocally announced that soon he intends for people to have to pay to access content from his newspaper brands. He also announced very substantial losses for News Corp. Now those losses that were announced may actually be opportunistic write downs, that will enable greater profits to be announced in future quarters. So [...]