RE: Former Intel Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Documents

mhenriday — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:02:15 GMT

Two points Mr «Hempenius» (if, indeed, that is your real name) : 1) What burder of proof is placed upon Intel to demonstrate that it indeed suffered damages to the extent of 200 - 400 million USD due to Mr Pani's actions ? Until evidence is presented showing that these figures are correct, or at least reasonable, most rational observers will assume that they are a fiction presented by Intel in order to convince the court that they have suffered greatly and that the perpetrator must be severely punished - pour encourager les autres, as Voltaire famously put it - and, not least to establish some sort of (in my opinion, fraudulent) baseline for a possible future lawsuit against AMD....

2) The main issue here, however, is not Intel's absurd damage claims, but the fact that, according to the article, Mr Pani is facing five charges, for each of which he could be sentenced to 20 years in prison, i e, his sentence could be as long as 100 years in prison, in the event that he is indeed judged guilty to all of them, receives the maximum sentences, and these are to run consecutively rather than concurrently. 100 years in prison for illegally downloading documents from a former employer - who obviously did not perform due diligence and allowed this employee access to internal documents during a period of some two weeks after termination ?!! If this be justice, than it demonstrates that the purpose of the justice system is primarily to protect the wealth of the super-rich ; not surprisingly, given that these latter have purchased the legislators who, with the help of the lobbyist organisations who draught the bills, determine what the law is....

You claim to be from «Intel Processors» (at least that is how you are represented in the notification I received from HotHardware), but I suspect that Intel would make certain that anyone representing the firm possessed a better command of the English language than that evinced in your post above. Moreover, I doubt that Intel would wish to take responsibility for your last comment, «AMD didn't send Pani to Intel ?». Who are you, Mr «Hempenius» ?...

Henri

RE: Former Intel Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Documents

mhenriday — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:27:27 GMT

The figures bandied about by Intel here are about as reliable as the fantasy sums claimed by the MPAA, RIAA, and other such organisations with respect to the damages they allegedly suffer from the downloading of copyrighted material. The fact that Mr Pani is now facing five counts at 20 years a pop for allegedly fraudulently downloading documents from Intel, while, to take just one example, a certain individual in the southeast of the US hasn't even been charged for wasting an unarmed 17-year-old boy says a great deal about the so-called «justice» system in that country....

Henri

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RE: Former Intel Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Documents

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