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Well, we all know from *IAA that piracy supports the terrrists, so Dubya needs to step in and throw these scumbags in Gitmo. Nevermind that is Australia, Dubya probably thinks it’s part of Hawaii anyway.
Citizens Arrest!
Not too surprising. I’ve never heard of anybody being arrested for casual piracy in Australia. No prosecutions/fines for downloading music, either.
We seem to have a lower-key approach to it down here. Commercial piracy is a different story though.
Okay but what does this have to do with the hot chick picture? Oh, never mind, it got me to read the blog entry so the objective was met.
Kylie Minogue is from Australia. It was a choice between her, Mad Max, or Yahoo Serious. I think I made the right choice.
#5. Why not, Dame Edna Everege?
http://www.dame-edna.com/
Thanks. I’ll add that to Men at Work, AC/DC, and Vegemite sandwiches.
And don’t forget Olivia Newton-John, Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman. But Dame Edna gets my vote.
Bad cut and past on my last post, obviously you didn’t forget Kylie.
Having lived in Oz for a number of years, this sounds pretty par for the course for Aussie cops. They are not to be trusted, and seriously believe that they are above the law and untouchable. And for the most part, they are.
I wonder if there is a point when file sharing becomes so common that the copyright is simply lost for the same reason common usage of the word “asprin” caused its copyright owner to lose the right to protected usage?
RBG
I suspect that the problem is so wide spread that if the cops arrested themselves there would be nobody left to do the paperwork.
AHA !!! Who Polices the Police ??? Especially the “Perv Police” – the so-called “Morals Squads” ??? Just like the Drug Cops have the best Drugs, the Perv Police have the best Pr0n !!!
#11, RBG,
Aspirin lost its American patent protection during WW I when Germany lost their overseas possessions to the Allies. The US sold the patent to a drug company that was purchased by Bayer in 1994. By that time, the patent had become generic.
The German Patent Office did not give trade mark protection as they declared it was not novel.
Britain had also denied the trademark because of the Judge said there was prior art.
In Canada, Bayer still owns the trademark for Aspirin. That is why acetylsalicylic acid is mostly sold there as A.S.A.
Recently here in California a 3-year-old son of a County Sheriff fatally shot himself in the head with his father’s service pistol. Amazingly the “Investigators have said there doesn’t appear to be any gross negligence,” “It was truly an accident.”
Can you imagine it that would have happened to any of us non police/Sheriff humans?
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/847706.html
14 Mr. C:
“Bayer had been unable to stop competitors from copying the formula and using the name elsewhere, so, with a flooded market, the public was unable to recognize aspirin as coming from only one manufacturer, and in 1921, a landmark ruling by Billings Learned Hand established “aspirin” as a genericized trademark.”
Wikipedia:
http://tinyurl.com/5dazyh
Case details:
http://tinyurl.com/679fsv
#16, So now we know.
🙂
Aussie Cop’s are a pack of bastards,this country is so much in dept they pretty much arrest anyone on the street and fined them,i think its absolutely disgusting how some people are treated! Just because they’re the law doesnt give them the right to be inhumane.
My brother yahooed out the window whilst driving past a cop and next minute 5squad cars pulled him over and arrested him on the spot as “public nuisance” quite funny considering that the only public down the street was the cops lol. I thought it was ridiculous that they needed 5 cop cars filled with cops to arrest my brother,and told them that its good to see taxpayers money put to good use lol
Next minute i was asked for my i.d,gave them my i.d then i was arrested. I thought it was absolutely stupid,they didnt let me bring my handbag which contained my wallet and phone and medication,i told them about my health issues but they didnt give a crap,what made it worse was i was arrested in a town i was not familiar with no phone no money,had to walk an hour to my sister’s house,got pulled up by this sleezy guy a block away from the police station,offering me a ride home for sex. Was absolutely disgusted. Thanks Aussie Cops you sure know how to make a girl feel safe!