jcm said:You're being ridiculous. TIG is a neutral forensic company. Their job is to read the drives. They can't read the drives in the condition Hotz sent them. It's not their job to go out and buy two more identical hard drives, swap the cards, and hope they don't fuck it up and destroy the data in the process. They are almost certainly irritated that Hotz is wasting their time. What's so difficult here?
Actually, the hard drives were all that he was asked to give to them. He was never told that he had to give anything else to them. That's what the defense is arguing. And you would think that, as a firm that deals with this sort of thing, that they would have the capabilities to know what the hell they're doing and have some parts to do this stuff without needing the additional resources and with knowing how to do this in a way that doesn't screw things up on the HDD. It just makes it seem as though they're not as neutral as they should be.
And, according to PSX-Scene members, the court already knew about his trip to South America some weeks in advance, so this "oh, he fled" business is just someone trying to score a political point here. How can you flee from a civil case? If it was a CRIMINAL case in which he was ordered to remain within the country or whatever, then they would have a case, but they never said that. Until someone says that, he can actually go wherever he wants as long as he's in touch with his lawyers somehow.