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 [...]
I have been amazed at the outpouring of emotion about the decision by the court last week in favour of Larrikin Music in its plagiarism suit against EMI Music. This is in relation to whether “Downunder”, the iconic Aussie song from Men At Work, infringed “Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree“, the iconic song [...]
Most people in this world are regulated by their immediate needs and the stimuli that they receive from the media around them. They go to work to make enough money to pay for food, shelter, and sex – living examples of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. And media is so pervasive that we rely on it [...]
Ministers are flying home after negotiating the ACTA agreement, which very soon may not be required.It would appear that there is some experimentation being conducted that very soon could moot the very reason for ACTA. Finally, we are seeing the Content creation companies figure out how to commercialise their products on the P2P networks. [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]
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, [...]
In the last week Universal Music announced that it had signed a long term deal with Big Champagne to get metrics of online music activity. Now since Universal rarely does anything that doesn't have a pretty direct profit motive, I have to figure that, though they may think that it is useful to have data [...]
The American national debt is The Gross National Debt Which of course is only part of the story. The American Population are growing older. Which means that Social Security, Medicare and Prescription drugs are an added liability that means that every American owes $191,820 just to pay for the retirees and an additional $38,000 in [...]
“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”. The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]
Using the Search engine inside Emule will usually get hundreds of hits so it would appear that the Emule search index function is working as advertised. (Um, NOT.) Last month I identified that there were a lot of fake Lugundum servers whose role was to interdict your file requests with spam (fake files). In Australia [...]