Category Archives: films

Geeklawyer film reviews

February 19, 2008 – 5:51 pm

Yes, what the flying fuck does this have to do with law? Nothing. Report me to the Bar Council.
Sweeney Todd.
One of Geeklawyer’s punters (one of only two who knows he writes this blog) described him as “a bit brutal“; there was the question about whether a note he had drafted to be handed up to […]

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Bittorrent throttling

August 17, 2007 – 9:57 pm

Geeklawyer spotted this news story about Comcast throttling bittorrent traffic. Geeklawyer does, on occasion, ‘steal‘ films using bittorrent. Really, it’s not like anyone suffers (please, spare me the crap about ‘he would have bought it if it hadn’t been available on p2p’) and he certainly isn’t the only IP/IT lawyer to do so.While many would […]

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“Taking Liberties”

June 17, 2007 – 3:41 pm

You’ve had the laws now go and see the film.
Geeklawyer went to see it with Evil Dave at the Curzon. If like Geeklawyer you are a bit of a civil liberties loony this won’t tell you much that you didn’t already know. Geeklawyer spent most of the film pointing at people on the screen and […]

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