Authored by: stegu on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 05:05 AM EDT |
Scary. This has an eerie ring of how "justice" is
served in countries with oppressive dictatorship
regimes. The US Government is losing face over
this, badly. Democracy and equal justice for all
seem pretty low on their priority list these days.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 12:03 PM EDT |
It occurs to me, the copyright industry likely pushing this case doesn't need a
conviction to win. They've already done mortal damage to Megaupload by shutting
them down and locking customers out of their data. If customer data is
destroyed without a judicial finding of illegality, the whole cloud storage
industry becomes unviable with risk.
As a possible analogy, consider a consignment shop. An item they have for sale
is found to be stolen, and the police confiscate the whole inventory as possibly
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:55 PM EDT |
The Prosecutor knows that the case is weak. The MPAA and RIAA
probably told a fib or two, maybe more.
I suspect that MegaUpload can prove that well over 50% of the files stored
on its servers were legitimate. If they do this in front of a jury, there goes
the case.
Want to bet that their lawyers try for damages?
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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