The odds are in favor of Hunter Biden in imminent lawsuit against computer repairman

[Coyote]

Since the FBI and police can not be trusted as much as lawyers and journalists can, they are the better choice as to what to do with suspicions of a crime.

You are the first person I have ever heard who has said lawyers can be trusted more than police

 

[meaner gene]

I agree that it would be an invasion of privacy to make all the contents of the laptop public normally.
But it is never illegal to share anything with authorities, lawyers, police, journalists, etc.
It there is evidence of a crime, then all privacy constraints are void.

The problem is that there has to be evidence of a crime. Not a hope that a crime can be found on it.

 

[Rigby5]

E-mails are creative material of value. And are protected under law from unauthorized use or disclosure.

WRONG!
Copyright laws do NOT protect anything from being disclosed.
What they do is protect the revenue that the original creator is due, when the original artistic material is used to make money.
There is nothing at all in copyright law to prevent the police, FBI, lawyers, judges, etc., from reading every single email on the laptop.
They are not artistic, creative, or have any protection at all, except from someone using them in a play, movie, or something that generates revenue.

 

[Care4all]

Since the FBI and police can not be trusted as much as lawyers and journalists can, they are the better choice as to what to do with suspicions of a crime.

Then why didn't Giuliani let a legitimate Murdoch news paper, that Giuliani first gave the copy of the hard drive to, The Wall Street Journal, finish researching the content and do the story, instead of yanking it from them and handing it to the Murdoch tabloidish New York Post to print???

 

[Rigby5]

The contract says the laptop is the shop owner's if the client failed to pay and or pick up, after X amount of time. It DOES NOT SAY the personal content on the laptop, was the shop owner's to do as they please.

Does not at all matter.
The repairman is not trying to resell the personal content of the laptop.
He is trying to report what appears to be a crime.
There is no law protecting criminal activity.

 

[Zincwarrior]

chain of custody is from hunter to the store owner to the FBI,,

Nope. A laptop to the Trump supporter where it was accessed multiple times and files added. Then copies to the Trump campaign hitmen. A laptop supposedly was given to the FBI.

 

[meaner gene]

Wrong.
When a person fails to pay for work done, the contract comes into play that the device then belongs to the repair man.
The contents of the laptop then was not stolen, but given to the repair man by failing to pay up.
So then there is no "taint" at all on its credibility.

The device, not the intellectual property on that device.

 

[Rigby5]

You are the first person I have ever heard who has said lawyers can be trusted more than police

The problem of police is that they generally will do whatever the prosecuting attorney tells them to say or do.
I have never seen police to have any integrity.
Lawyers can be sleazy as well, but they at least are more aware of the law and are more careful about it.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Read the law

Contrary to popular belief which states that “an email is not copyright protected once it is sent”, surprisingly, emails are protected by intellectual property laws, by default; it's protected by copyright laws once penned down or created by the sender. Dec 12, 2019

Unless I’m mistaken copywrites have to be applied for. You can’t just claim something is copywriter after the fact,

 

[Rigby5]

The problem is that there has to be evidence of a crime. Not a hope that a crime can be found on it.

Nope.
Letting police, FBI, journalists, etc. search for possible crimes, is perfectly legal.
There does not have to be any evidence of a crime.
Copyright law just means you can not resend them and pretend you wrote them.
There are no privacy constraints implied by copyright laws, at all.

 

[Nostra]

The problem is that there has to be evidence of a crime. Not a hope that a crime can be found on it.

Have you read all the emails and documents and seen all the pics?

 

[Nostra]

Nope. A laptop to the Trump supporter where it was accessed multiple times and files added. Then copies to the Trump campaign hitmen. A laptop supposedly was given to the FBI.

The FBI would be able to determine fake info added within days. They have had it for two years, and no charges against the shop owner.
Why is that, Simp?

 

[meaner gene]

No, the mandatory audit of the president was not prevented by Trump or anyone of his friends, as far as we know. The IRS simply has fallen way behind.

Same with the border patrol. Right?

 

[Rigby5]

Then why didn't Giuliani let a legitimate Murdoch news paper, that Giuliani first gave the copy of the hard drive to, The Wall Street Journal, finish researching the content and do the story, instead of yanking it from them and handing it to the Murdoch tabloidish New York Post to print???

Who knows?
Probably a more reliable paper would take too much time?
Could be some papers simply refuse to implicate Joe Biden?
Not impossible.

 

[meaner gene]

Link?

copyright law

 

[Nostra]

copyright law

So you are full of shit.

got it.

 

[Rigby5]

Nope. A laptop to the Trump supporter where it was accessed multiple times and files added. Then copies to the Trump campaign hitmen. A laptop supposedly was given to the FBI.

You can not successfully just add emails to a single laptop.
There are many multiple copies on other computers.
There would be copies on every server in the server chain, tap backups, copies on the receiving computer, etc.
A good investigation could easily verify what was real and if anything had been added.

 

[meaner gene]

It doesn't? Have you read the contract?

Can you post it here?

First all contracts have to be legal. And because much of the intellectual property on the computer doesn't belong to the owner of the computer, they can't by contract transfer ownership of property that isn't theirs.

The contract would be a swiss cheese of exclusions in order to include intellectual property in the abandoned property clause.

 

[scruffy]

Right-wingers argue that the computer repairman acquired the laptop as abandoned property, but according to this legal analyst, only the hardware and not the data belongs to the repairman in this case. The repairman cannot use Hunter Biden's copyrighted images, emails, etc. The only permissible action the repairman could have taken with the data is to recover it:

Guest view: Hunter Biden’s laptop and data: A legal and data privacy analysis

By David L. Hecht, Esq. A newly released document suggests that on April 12, 2019 Hunter Biden signed an $85 services “quote” from the Mac Shop in Wilmington covering labor

delawarebusinessnow.com

lol

lmao

 

[Rigby5]

Unless I’m mistaken copywrites have to be applied for. You can’t just claim something is copywriter after the fact,

Not really.
Applying for the copyright just makes it MUCH easier to win your case.
But if you can prove somehow that someone stole your work in progress, you can still win even though you never applied.
You would need witnesses not only of prior content, but of the person claiming rights to it having had access.
If it was just coincidence someone came up with a similar idea, that is not a copyright violation.