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Wondering around outside the olympics

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With surveillance Wenlock to accompany us we headed to the depths of Stratford for a little stroll and to look for any spill over effect from the olympics and to see how well the brand enforcement was working. So if you’re in a hurry the summary is: – there’s very little spill over into the local area – the olympic brand enforcement is working very well indeed. Now before I go any further let me say that the crowds around Stratford are pretty close to my idea of hell, but that the volunteers I spoke to were awesome (mainly I … Continue reading →

text messages are publishing

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In very related new to the recent porn trial reports, it would seem that our enlightened judiciary are once more extending the law. For they have decided on an appeal ruling that sending a text message counts as publishing as far as the obscene publications act is concerned. The full details are over at the The Register, but basically text based communications to an audience of one counts as publishing, and it could be up to a jury to decide if the text is capable of “depraving or corrupting”. If it were a chat session then both parties could be … Continue reading →

Extreme porn update

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Via Katabasis, it seems what I said ages ago was right – want to get someone in trouble send them a “banned” pick then tip off the police, the offence is possession so how you got it or even if you looked at it doesn’t matter. Mind I love the defence that the e-mail server etc. belong to the company (in the case microsoft) so as you don’t own the mails but merely have a license to access them are you in fact in possession. “DS Callahan was recalled to the witness box. The main point of contention involved the … Continue reading →