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>Federal agents have said Lawrence broke down and became distraught during a 2014 meeting about nude photos of her that appeared online. Lawrence called the leak a "sex crime" in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine.

>Majerczyk is the second man arrested in connection with the "Celebgate" scandal of 2014. A Pennsylvania man, Ryan Collins, 36, pled guilty to a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and was sentenced to 18 months in October 2016.

>The FBI said Collins engaged in a similar "phishing scheme" to obtain access to his victims' accounts by sending emails that appeared to be from Apple or Google, asking for usernames and passwords. When the victims complied (FBI Tip #1: Don't ever do this), Collins used his illicit access to steal "personal information including nude photographs and videos" from his victims' accounts.

>As with Majerczyk, Collins was not charged with actually sharing or uploading the private photos of female celebrities online.

Godspeed, based anon

Worth it

Vile skanks

These whores are role models for fucks sake

“The panel concluded that the evidence showed only that Giganews’ actions were akin to passively storing material at the direction of users in order to make that material available to other users upon request, or automatically copying, storing, and transmitting materials upon instigation by others,” the ruling reads.

The panel also found that Giganews was not liable for contributory infringement after Perfect 10 failed to show that Giganews “materially contributed to or induced infringement.”

On Perfect 10’s claim for vicarious infringement, the panel upheld the district court’s summary judgment in Giganews’ favor, noting that Perfect 10 failed to show a “causal link between the infringing activities and a financial benefit to Giganews.”

Ron Yokubaitis, Co-CEO of Giganews, said that his company’s decision not to give in to Perfect 10 had resulted in a long and hard-fought battle, but the end result meant it had been worth it.

“We decided that it would be important to stand up to Perfect 10 and not be bullied by its abusive litigation tactics. We were not going to settle this case just to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic statutory damages in today’s crazy copyright world, a threat that unscrupulous plaintiffs like Perfect 10 use to extract unjust settlements from more timid companies,” he said.

“We took a stand for Usenet, for technology and online platforms, for the public, and for ultimate benefit of rational copyright law. We were not just battling Perfect 10: standing behind Perfect 10 – and even sharing in its oral argument at the court of appeals – was the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA), which tried to argue [https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-tech-giants-clash-in-usenet-piracy-case-160303/] that it was voicing the interests of small copyright holders.”

Giganews went on to thank several groups that gave it support during its battle with Perfect 10, including the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, EFF, and Public Knowledge. While Giganews will continue in the Usenet business, Perfect 10’s efforts to extract billions in damages from the provider have essentially developed into a suicide mission.

“With this decision, Perfect 10’s days as a copyright troll masquerading as a porn company are now finished,” Giganews said.

“The case now moves to its final stage to collect attorney’s fees from Perfect 10. Giganews is seeking the appointment of a receiver to take charge of all of Perfect 10’s copyrights, trademarks, and domain names and to liquidate them in partial satisfaction of Giganews’ judgment against Perfect 10.”

The only area where Giganews failed to convince the court was in its request to add Perfect 10 founder Norman Zada to the verdict. The district court already denied that request and the panel at the court of appeal upheld that decision.

The full ruling is available here [https://torrentfreak.com/images/Giganews-Perfect-10-2017-01-23.pdf]

>>103731
nice

>“We talked about the Affordable Care Act and said what the Affordable Care Act has been successful in doing is improving quality, expanding access and lowering costs,” she told reporters. “And any proposal that they might have that does that, we’d be interested in hearing about.”

>Even with Republicans in control of Congress, Mr. Trump will have to build relationships in a city that he spent more time mocking than praising during his campaign.

>In his Inaugural Address, the president criticized the political establishment, saying the people assembled behind him — including the leaders he met with on Monday — had “reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.”

>White House officials said the meeting was designed to press the lawmakers on the need to move quickly.

>The reception included, among others, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, as well as Ms. Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York.

>“The American people are frustrated with the lack of progress here in Washington, and the president wants no delay in addressing our most pressing issues,” said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary. “He’s taking every opportunity to forge strong bonds with congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle.”
...
lol Schumer and Pelosi are still not going to vote for the 'GOP agenda', or most of trump's nominees, no matter how many receptions he throws. I guess that's why they call it partisan gridlock.

>>103144
>Lie
>Implying it was a lie.
Liberals are so defensive about their meaningless popular vote.

>>103155
>making up lies to defend your loss in the popular vote
>not being defensive
kek
I think it's more that liberals are just upset about how casually the President can lie about anything. Obama had some lies but it's not like he was constantly lying about everything the way Trump does

>"I believe others will leave ... I do think keeping it together is not gonna be as easy as a lot of people think," Trump said in the interview.

>The British exit from the EU would "end up being a great thing," he said.

>British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it's "very good news that the United States of America wants to do a good free trade deal with us and wants to do it very fast."

>Trump was less kind to German industry officials, saying car manufacturers including BMW could face tariffs of up to 35 percent if they set up plants in Mexico instead of in the U.S. and try to export the cars to the U.S.

>Such tariffs would make "the American auto industry worse, weaker and more expensive," Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's economy minister, told Bild.

>Gabriel suggested Europeans exhibit more self-confidence in dealing with Trump. "We're not weak and inferior," he said.

>BMW said Monday that the company would stick to its plans to produce cars in Mexico.

>"The production is aimed at the world market," BMW said, according to the German news agency dpa. "Therefore the plant in Mexico will complement ... the production plants in Germany and China."

>Despite Trump's latest threat, BMW won't budge on Mexican plant

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/16/news/companies/trump-bmw-mexico/

>despite a member of Trump's cabinet supporting NATO, Europeans shocked Trump still doesn't support NATO.
One of his campaign points was to not be the world police for free anymore. Between this and the bill to get out of the UN (it's the 11th time it's been attempted, hopefully it'll go through) it should surprise nobody that Trump is of the firm belief that dissolving these alliances will benefit America

Theyve been short staffed the entire time

Im pretty sure theyd make an exception if a doctor decudes yo work at the VA

>After Spicer's remarks, the VA said it planned to take advantage of the hiring freeze's allowances for public safety needs.

>"The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to exempt anyone it deems necessary for public safety, including frontline caregivers," Acting VA Secretary Robert Snyder said in a statement.


>USA TODAY has reported on the massive bureaucracy between top-line leaders like Shulkin and front-line care providers that has slowed some improvements in the VA since the scandal broke in 2014 with revelations that schedulers in Phoenix had kept secret wait lists masking how long veterans had been waiting for appointments and at least 40 died while waiting.

>The VA is one of the largest agencies in the federal government with more than 350,000 employees. The agency provides veterans with death, disability and education benefits, as well as health care at more 1,200 medical facilities that serve nearly 9 million veterans each year.

>A liberal veterans group that slammed Trump during the campaign seized on the hiring freeze. In a statement earlier Tuesday, VoteVets senior adviser Peter Kauffmann said that if it applied to the VA, it would be the "ultimate insult to our men and women who serve to deny them the additional doctors, nurses, therapists, and administrators that are sorely needed at the VA.”

“>If his (order) leads to preventable deaths, that will be on Donald Trump’s hands, and we will hold him personally accountable,” Kauffmann said.

>>103683

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

Here OP, Let me help:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html

>Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.

>The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.

>The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs -- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

>One reason the nation's intelligence chiefs took the extraordinary step of including the synopsis in the briefing documents was to make the President-elect aware that such allegations involving him are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and other government officials in Washington, multiple sources tell CNN.
....

http://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-intelligence-chiefs-told-trump-that-russia-attempted-to-compromise-him/

>According to the breaking report, this information was presented to both men as part of the intelligence briefings they received on Russia’s hacking that was done to influence the election.

>In part of a two-page synopsis, it was shown that Russian officials claimed to have compromising personal and business information on Trump. Per CNN, the FBI is now currently looking at the credibility and accuracy of these allegations. It was also explained that this was separate from the intelligence report and only presented to those with the highest security clearance.

>The two-page document also showed allegations that there was communication between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government. CNN says they can confirm that this information was given to Trump, but they can’t confirm if it was actually discussed in the briefing.

>The synopsis is of a dossier that was prepared by an ex-British intelligence agent for the use of opposition research against Trump. Buzzfeed got a hold of the dossier and reported that many of the claims in it are unverified and may be impossible to verify. Also, it noted there were some errors in it.

>> The document was prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent. It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors. The report misspells the name of one company, “Alpha Group,” throughout. It is Alfa Group. The report says the settlement of Barvikha, outside Moscow, is “reserved for the residences of the top leadership and their close associates.” It is not reserved for anyone, and is also populated by the very wealthy.

>Some of the claims in the dossier are that Trump allegedly hired prostitutes in Russia for kinky sex acts.
....

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

One of the organisers, Konstantin Rykov, who has served as a Russian MP affiliated to Putin’s United Russia Party and has also been described as a “Kremlin web propagandist”, wrote on Facebook ahead of the event: “Washington will be ours”.

The elation of the event feeds into the "Trumpomania" that appears to have gripped Russia since Mr Trump won the presidential victory in November.


READ MORE
Vladimir Putin supporters hold all-night Trump inauguration party
Silver and gold commemorative coins engraved with “In Trump We Trust” have emerged amid the frenzy, while new Trump matryoshka dolls have been added to the popular line-up of, including dolls carved in the likeness of President Putin and Josef Stalin.

Mr Trump's praise for Putin has raised expectations that he could move to build bridges between the countries, although the new president hasn't articulated a clear policy and some of his Cabinet nominees have made hawkish statements on Russia.

Leonid Slutsky, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of parliament, expressed hope that Mr Trump would move to establish constructive ties with Moscow, but cautioned there was no “magic button” to instantly achieve that, saying: “We expect a slow but steady revival of our relations."

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov expressed hope that Mr Trump would work with Mr Putin on solving the Ukrainian crisis and other problems, but added: “Difficulties will remain".

>Independent

get the fuck out of here with that clickbait garbage

>>102002
this demonstrably happened

they've not been particularly discreet about it

>>103569
>"This rape was broadcast live on a Facebook group and numerous people have been in touch regarding seeing this broadcast," they said
I bet it was taken off quickly by the Facebook censors. Good luck looking.

Maybe on theync site
Gl hf

well this isnt funny at all...

>>103870


http://pilotonline.com/news/local/missing-virginia-beach-mother-and-children-found-safe-police-say/article_cd221b00-1c22-5113-8c2d-bd942962a1d4.html

>>103870
Here, lemme try:

>That was quick! Hopefully her kids are still virgin-ya!

No good?

they are not going to write a check.

they are going to inadvertently pay us back one way or another. Probably by droping nafta.

>>97357
I wouldn't mind if NAFTA was dropped but Trump blatantly lied to everybody by saying that they were going to pay for the wall. I don't see what the big problem is - the wall would be shared by both nations so there would be no problem with sharing the cost, right?!

>Captcha: Traverse Call

>>97362
>People were actually retarded enough to think that we could make Mexico pay for the border wall
>People actually think that a unified wall is the answer when the first was stopped because the republican congress at the time realized it was a huge boondoggle

Top fucking kek

Rest in peace, little borker.

Sleep tight, pupper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9CIywDbP-c

>>103619
At least there weren't bath salts or K2 involved this time.

>>103619
He stood his ground! He will got off scott free on that.

Why is is always Florida?

I swearing it has the highest number of stupid deaths of any first world state.

>The multi-national investigation — named Operation Pandora — started in October and the arrests began in November. It was led by investigators from Spain and Cyprus with support from 16 other countries, UNESCO and Interpol.

>It focused on "cultural spoliation" — the act of taking goods by force or looting, particularly in times of war.

>Almost 30,000 vehicles and 50 ships were checked by investigated and 48 588 people were checked, Europol said.

>It was not clear why the operation's results were announced two months after the arrests.

>>102909
This is bullshit.
I know some coin collectors and the law to legalise this was passed last year and its outright theft.
Every coin that you can not provide proof of purchase (because every private purchase involves receipts) is considered stolen.
They are "confiscating" collections and my buddy told me he already saw a influx in offers from museums who received the "stolen" goods back.
If any of you are stupid enough to still be in Europe get the fuck out or take off to a country that doesn't enforce the law like Austria.

>>101288
It isn't just Senegal's forces. I don't know why that Reuters article didn't specify. There is a lot of coverage.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38672840
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/world/africa/gambia-yahya-jammeh-adama-barrow.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tourists-evacuated-gambia-crisis-deepens-44848551
http://www.dw.com/en/african-troops-deploy-to-gambian-border-as-pressure-mounts-for-president-jammeh-to-step-down/a-37185166
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/gambia-mps-extend-president-jammeh-term-170118082031908.html
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/gambian-president-jammeh-declares-state-of-emergency/42860750
http://news.sky.com/story/yahya-jammeh-the-gambian-president-who-claimed-to-cure-aids-10733487
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/18/africa/gambia-jammeh-barrow/
From Nigeria:
https://leadership.ng/news/cover-stories/567806/ecowas-troops-move-to-the-gambia-border-as-parliament-extends-jammehs-tenure
From The Gambia:
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/jammeh-declares-state-of-emergency-civil-liberties-to-be-respected
http://www.africanews.com/2017/01/18/gambia-s-vice-president-resigns-a-day-before-contested-inauguration/


Also
>archive.is
Are we really doing this shit now?

jammy election dodger

Just saw on BBC that there's "thousands" of troops on the border and Nigeria has fighter jets and a "warship" in the area.

>As such, it’s little surprise Kazakhstan’s internet freedom scores from Freedom House have progressively worsened over the past half-dozen years. Indeed, after 2015 Kazakhstan was officially rated as “not free,” Freedom House’s worst demarcation, for its online freedoms, and currently sits between Sudan and Egypt in global rankings. And the current push to unmask anonymous commenters certainly won’t help matters — no matter how much Astana attempts to spin the move.

proxy phone numbers, anyone?

>>103572
The NSA thanks you for the good snickering.