And yes, #DRM and #CopyProtection is the reason why huge broadcasters have their workstations' and servers' drives cloned and backed up as setup in a ready-to-go-state because they can't be bothered dealing with shitty DRM and product activation if a device decides to die.
And money isn't the problem: They literally have fully-decked out hp z-series workstations on cold standby in case one breaks.
And yes, I think that people should press charges for #theft amidst these cases of #DigitalTheft!
Seriously...
I wish for #lawyers to make the precedent that #perpetual#licenses mean they'll have to honor that perpetually.
In fact, #Steam does even have provisions and insurances in place to provide people their purchased #library of #games without their #DRM in case they were to fold / declare bankrupcy / dissolve their platform...
Experts to Examine a Controversial Forensic Test That Has Helped Convict #Women of #Murder
Responding to a ProPublica investigation into the “lung float test,” which some have likened to a witch trial, #lawyers and medical professionals will work to determine whether the test should be used in #court.
I agree with @Dahlialith assessment of the “new” ethics rules #SCOTUS published - of little value except ‘insofar as it’s phrased to imply, perhaps for the first time since this ethics mess began, that the court is aware of public opinion, it’s a tiptoe in the right direction.”
#AlanDershowitz advocates upending the world of #lawyers with the dangerous idea of requiring law firms to inform clients about a lawyer’s spolitical and personal beliefs and get their consent for representation.
#Dershowitz thinks it necessary and appropriate for a law firm to have its clients query the lawyer as to whether the lawyer supports the #Hamas action as an appropriate #military response to #Israel’s #occupation.
As Tim Hardford (FT) highlights the Goldin's distinction between #lawyers & #pharmacists is indicative of the issue of greedy jobs (in the USA).
Lawyers as a profession, a classic greedy job requiring long hours & prompt travel, are patterned by gender discriminations & inequity.
Pharmacists, however who have organised their profession into teams & so allow the job to be balanced with a 'greedy' home job, have little gender pay gap at all!
The #Mississippi Supreme Court Moved to Ensure Poor Criminal Defendants Would Always Have a Lawyer. It’s Not Working.
Months after the state’s highest court directed judges to ensure that all criminal defendants have legal representation while awaiting indictment, one justice has acknowledged that the rule isn’t being widely followed.
Embattled #Giuliani '#without any local #lawyers' in Georgia after 2nd attorney files motion to withdraw
"A motion to withdraw has been submitted to the clerk, the sources said," Rubin explains. "A judge in the case ...News of the move comes after several other former attorneys of the Trump ally have sued Giuliani for failure to pay his bills, including his longtime friend and attorney Bob Costello, who #sued Giuliani for over $1 million in payments due to his firm."
The trial is scheduled to last until the end of Dec but is expected to end sooner.
Trump arrived in the courtroom & strode past AG #LetitiaJames, seated in the first row, w/o making eye contact & immediately took a seat at the defense table.
While pool photographers took his picture at the defense table, looking solemn, in camera-ready way, Judge #Engoron looked amused.
Back in the courtroom, & #Trump is back at the defense table. It remains to be seen whether lawyers for the AG will bring Justice Engoron's attn to Trump’s comments saying he should be disbarred.
#Trial called back in session. Justice #Engoron starts by asking the #lawyers to the #bench for a quick sidebar (“or frontbar,” he quips.) Trump is sitting alone at the defense table, hunched over.
The #surveillancesociety is like a budget version of #orwell... run on excel spreadsheets & baking off when the threat of #lawyers is aired.
That the DfE is trying to silence then is no real surprise... but its still shocking that this (rather than engagement with the views/criticisms) is the strategy adopted.
Though not named here I have at least one good friend (and active unionist) who I'm sure also has their own excel spreadsheet & file.
#Trump still has an opportunity to #delay the #trial, or even gut the case against him. Trump has already sued Justice Engoron & an appeals court is expected to rule this week on his lawsuit. But if the #AppealsCourt rules against him, Trump will have to fight the remainder of the case at trial.
#Trump’s #lawsuit —& in turn the fate of #NYAG#James’s case against him— hinges on a passage in the June #appeals court ruling that has become a #legal Rorschach test of sorts, in which each side sees what they want. Trump’s #lawyers are convinced that the June ruling effectively tossed out the claims against him, while James’s team has argued that it had little effect on the accusation at the heart of her case— that Trump overstated his net worth by billions in his annual #financial statements
This week the inquiry into the #PostOffice#Horizon scandal will reach a more general Q.: did the #lawyers acting for the PO abuse their power?
Here's Joshua Rozenberg reflects on how that might play out... the lawyers will deny unprofessional behaviour (of course), but there ar clearly practices used in this case & more widely that make this not just a legitimate Q. but a real concern for anyone interested in the #RuleofLaw!
#Rudy is positively outraged that his #attorneys are trying to collect their legal fees. How dare these #lawyers expect that Rudy would fulfill his end of the #retainer and #representation agreements he signed up for!
I don't believe that the two-day bar exam measures competence to practice law. I think it is a measure of who is good at standardized exams. Based on a arbitrary score, an individual can open a practice and represent clients in areas never even tested on the exam.
The CA State Bar BoT will consider a proposal for an alternative pathway to licensure.
I hope you will read the full proposal. It's time we measured what matters.
I wonder if they'll be concerned when they're #indicted next. #Trump's #lawyers have a habit of finding themselves #unpaid, #disbarred, and criminally indicted.
@marcelias “#State#bar associations need to review how existing #rules failed to stop so many #lawyers from saying and doing so many things to undermine our #democracy. Rules need to make clear that undermining democracy, inside or outside of the courtroom, is prohibited. The federal rules of procedure must be revised to provide for swift, mandatory sanctions against lawyers who bring frivolous election-related claims.”