What?Quote:
Originally Posted by shosh
Where did you hear that from?
Did they really try to buy an island?
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What?Quote:
Originally Posted by shosh
Where did you hear that from?
Did they really try to buy an island?
it's wasn't an island, it was a platform called Sealand
more info here: http://www.thelocal.se/6076/20070112/
They tried to buy sealand, its not exactly an island, just an old ofshore navy base thing (cant be bothered to look it up, but it looks more like a stone oil rig, than an island).
^^ there we go, beaten to the punch lol
it is called an oil platform.
This reminds me of peter griffin setting his own country in usa
I'm betting that the appeal will produce a contradictory result.
The main problem with any case involving an individual and a corporation is that the corporation can throw money left, right and centre to the point that they can overwhelm a case with sheer weight of money.
How many times have individuals won against a corporation, only to find the corporation takes it to appeal, eventually bankrupting the individual. It's not a game of right and wrong, but a game of who has the more money, and who folds first. The legal system is more like a game of poker than a fact finding tribunal.
It is not an oil platorm.Quote:
Originally Posted by 100%
Its an old sea fort from the 2nd WW.
http://www.sealandgov.org/history.html
3 mill is not much money compared to the sales that the record companies and movie companies and xxx companies have probably missed out on.
Oh, the irony is just spilling over... :glag:Quote:
Peter Althin, brokep’s lawyer said, “I spoke to Peter and he wasn’t very surprised. A journalist he’d spoken to knew an hour before it was public that all four would be convicted. The verdict was leaked from the court. I have to think about what effects that can have on the sentence. It is unacceptable that the court is leaking.”