Infowars host Owen Shroyer, a conspiracy theorist currently facing a lawsuit for promoting hoax claims about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, has already scheduled an April 18 “You Can’t Close America” rally in Austin, Texas. With every passing day that lockdowns are extended, Ingraham’s prediction appears more and more likely, especially if conservative pundits have their way. MLive reporter Malachi Barrett highlighted the president’s influence on the rallygoers, calling it “half protest, half Trump rally,” an unsurprising connection given that Trump has recently upped demands for “OPENING UP AMERICA AGAIN!” The protest was organized by the Michigan Freedom Fund and Michigan Conservative Coalition, the former of which is backed by the billionaire family of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s education secretary. Her most radical GOP constituents have called the order tyrannical, as they made evident by blaring car horns, waving signs that likened Whitmer to Hitler-including one that read, “Trump, lock up the Nazi woman from Michigan”-and chanting, “Lock her up!” and “We will not comply!” on the capitol front lawn. She issued the executive action after over 20,000 Michiganders had become infected with COVID-19 and nearly 1,000 had died, leading to capacity issues at Detroit-area hospitals. The protesters’ ire was aimed at Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer, who, while facing the third-worst outbreak in the U.S., extended Michigan’s stay-at-home order last week to April 30, banning gatherings of 10 or more people and the reopening of nonessential businesses and schools. The largest protest was staged in Michigan, where conservatives formed a tight-knit crowd around the steps of the Lansing capitol building and blocked off surrounding streets in the self-titled “Operation Gridlock” effort. Despite coronavirus causing over 30,000 deaths in America alone, the pro-Trump and largely mask-less protesters, some of whom flew Confederate flags and open-carried AR-15 and AK-47 variants, gathered to demand an end to outbreak-reduction efforts and a premature return to normalcy. Garland of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.In the capital cities of Michigan, Kentucky, and North Carolina, hundreds of conservatives staged mass protests on Wednesday against social distancing orders-and top right-wing media figures are cheering them on.
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Attorneys John Carlin and Sherri Schornstein and by Department of Justice trial attorney Scott L. These cases are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Tanner will be sentenced on September 14, 2005. The maximum penalties for a first-time offender convicted of conspiracy to commit felony criminal copyright infringement in violation of Title 17, United States Code, section 506, and Title 18, United States Code, sections 3, are five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and restitution to the victims. Agents estimated that on any one day, Tanner's hub shared an average of 6.72 terabytes of files, which is roughly equivalent in storage space to well over 6,000 movies in digital format. During the investigation, government agents downloaded numerous copyrighted works worth approximately $7,371 from Tanner's hub. These pleas constituted the first federal felony convictions for copyright piracy using peer-to-peer networks, all within about nine months of the original searches and seizures.įrom on or about August 2003 through August 2004, Tanner owned, maintained, operated, and moderated a Direct Connect hub named "Silent Echoes." According to court documents, the defendant's hub offered movies, computer software, computer games, and music in digital format. Tanner's conviction follows the convictions of Michael Chicoine and William Trowbridge on Januand Nicholas Boel on Apon the same charges.
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These networks required their users to share large quantities of computer files with other network users, all of whom could download each others' shared files. Operation Digital Gridlock, first announced on August 25, 2004, targeted illegal file-sharing of copyrighted materials over Direct Connect peer-to-peer networks that belonged to an online group of hubs known as The Underground Network. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, and the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Tanner's conviction is the final conviction resulting from Operation Digital Gridlock, a joint investigation conducted by the FBI, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Tanner, also known as "Axeman," 42, of Fulton, New York, entered his plea in front of Judge Paul L. WASHINGTON, D.C.-The fourth and final defendant in Operation Digital Gridlock pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit felony criminal copyright infringement, the Justice Department announced today. Final Guilty Plea in Operation Digital Gridlock, First Federal Peer-to-Peer Copyright and Piracy Crackdown
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