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A Florida court has ordered the operators of KissAsian to pay $1,810,000 in damages for copyright and trademark infringement offenses. The default judgment is in favor of media giant ABS-CBN, which managed to score several victories in US courts this year. Despite the hefty verdict and the loss of its domain name, KissAsian continues to serve pirated content. ABS-CBN, the largest media and entertainment company in the Philippines, continues its legal campaign against pirate sites in the US. The company has singled out dozens of streaming sites that offer access to ‘Pinoy’ content without permission, both in the US and abroad. This week a federal court in Florida signed a default judgment against KissAsian, one of the biggest targets thus far. Since the defendants failed to show up it was a relatively easy win. The lawsuit in question was filed in February and accused KissAsian of both copyright and trademark infringement. According to ABS-CBN, the site was using its trademarks and copyrighted content to draw visitors and generate profit. “ABS-CBN is suffering irreparable and indivisible injury and has suffered substantial damages as a result of Defendant’sunauthorized and unlawful use of the ABS-CBN Marks and Copyrighted Works,” the complaint read. When the operators of the pirate site failed to respond to the allegations, the media company asked for a default judgment. United States District Judge William Dimitrouleas has now approved the company’s request, granting it $1 million in trademark damages, and another $810,000 for copyright infringement. The order (pdf) In addition, the judge granted a request to hand over the KissAsian.com domain name to ABS-CBN, which hasn’t happened thus far. While the order is a clear win for the Philippine media conglomerate, it might be hard to recoup the damages from the unknown operators of the site. In fact, it doesn’t appear that the site is going to cease its activities anytime soon, as the order requires. Soon after KissAsian.com was put at risk, the site’s operators simply relocated to a new domain name; KissAsian.ch. “We are transferring domain, new domain is kissasian.ch, and kissasian beta mirror is not working temporarily, it will be done in next 5-10mins. Sorry for the inconvenience!” a statement on Facebook reads. And so it continues. https://torrentfreak.com/florida-court-orders-pirate-site-kissasian-to-pay-1-8m-in-damages-170825/

Dotcom's lawyer calls for extradition case to be dismissed after court rules New Zealand's GCSB illegally spied on Megaupload Kim Dotcom claims the GCSB wasn't the only spy agency out to get him Ira Rothken, Kim Dotcom's lawyer, has called for the extradition case against Dotcom to be dropped after the High Court in New Zealand ruled that he had been spied on illegally by the GCSB, New Zealand's spy agency. Dotcom, not surprisingly, is delighted with the decision. In one of his earliest reactions to the Court's ruling he said that other intelligence agencies might also be involved in the underhand surveillance and may be guilty of lying in court. "MORE illegal spying exposed in High Court admission by New Zealand govt," he wrote in a tweet in response to the verdict. "NSA involved and perjury exposed!" Others show how determined he is to get to the bottom on the spying: "Next step: Let's find out exactly what the NSA involvement was in all that illegal spying and deep state abuse of power against my family," he said during what might be called a Tweet storm. https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/900925577472954368 Court documents released by Megaupload show the GCSB admitting to its wrong doings but declining to dwell on the details. "In a decision dated December last year, but only made publicly available for the first time this week, the High Court has entered two judgments against the GCSB for unlawful spying on Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, who are defendants in the extradition proceedings that also involve Kim Dotcom and Firm Batato. "The judgments both include a detailed declaratory statement of the circumstances in which the unlawful spying took place," it says. It continues: "The circumstances of the interceptions of Messrs Ortmann and Batato's communications (and the technical details regarding the other plaintiffs' interceptions) are top secret, and it has not proved possible to plead to the allegations the plaintiffs have made without revealing information which would jeopardise the national security of New Zealand." The finding of the court could be significant for Dotcom as he fights his case against extradition to the US. Even the raid on his home has been ruled illegal already - although that judgement was later overruled by New Zealand's Supreme Court. Nevertheless, Dotcom is still arguing that the methods used during the raid and shutdown of Megaupload were against the law, and that other charges, which include money laundering and fraud, are therefore also nonsense. Earlier this year Rothken told CNBC that he expected that all charges would eventually be dropped. "Our view is that the charges are like a house of cards," he said. "Once you get rid of criminal copyright infringement, everything falls. There is no money laundering if you have a non-copyright infringing cloud storage site." And in a statement to V3 today, Dotcom's lawyer added: "There are a lot of issues of first impression in this case. We have a trail of government abuse engrained in court judgments from illegal spying to the illegal removal of data by the US offshore without permission." He continued: "We believe that the US and New Zealand aided and abetted each other in the illegal conduct against Kim Dotcom and the others. "This case and extradition should now be dismissed in the interests of justice. "The government's illegal conduct has reached such an extreme level that we believe that no court should entertain an extradition proceeding so tainted with state sponsored abuse and violations of basic human rights."

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Hey guys, I'm a final year bachelor film student currently in the post-production stages of my first written and directed work. It isn't completely terrible which is a relief. Once it's over I'll be back to teaching myself music production, making tracks with the only piece of software I ever ended up paying for haha, Ableton, after a year or two of using a cracked copy. That's basically the important thing about torrenting I reckon, to be able to engage and learn about culture or build skills that would otherwise be out of reach, especially those in low socio-economic circumstances. If torrenting and the internet has shown anything its that people like to invest in things they care about, like merchandise and physical copies of media they love, because they've had the chance to experience it and return that appreciation. I'd be pretty ignorant about films and global culture, software skills, social activism or my own sexuality if I hadn't the internet and torrents to trove through thats for sure. Can I get an Amen~ Basically I want to be a part of the obscure private film trackers Karagarga and other libraries of media, that are doing the work government institutions aren't able to. Especially now that public and semi-public trackers are experiencing ever increasing issues with regulation. Anybody out there interested in giving me advice on how to do that? Any current plan is to get into PassthePopcorn if I can (I have a Demonoid acc but its a semi-public tracker site right?) and then use ratio creds there to get an invite to Karagarga. I love old obscure arthouse films n shit that's my jam. Cheers everyone sorry for the ramble!