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Last I heard Kim Dotcom hadn't flown any airliners into tall buildings, or tried to bomb them, or financed any terrorism. All he'd one in meant that Lars Ulrich's hairlooming had to be done in monthly rather than weekly instalmentsOriginally Posted by scott411
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Hmmmm...so one judge said "Go for it, you've enough evidence for me to agree to your search warrant application"
And a second judge sez "Oh no, you DIDN'T have enough grounds to be granted a search warrant"
Weird eh??
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Very true SD, you have to wonder what that first judge was on eh.Hmmmm...so one judge said "Go for it, you've enough evidence for me to agree to your search warrant application"
And a second judge sez "Oh no, you DIDN'T have enough grounds to be granted a search warrant"
Weird eh??
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Probably drugs seized in an illegal police search
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well, all he did really is provide a storage space online, so people can upload and store their files online in a remote place, and he allowed them to share things with each other too..
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Not arguing the policing or Legal aspect..
What I don't understand is why Megaupload was targeted and not YouTube, 4Shared, FileTube, MediaFire, and the other thousands of file sharing and storage sites?
I'd suggest thought that there are some criminal elements who will not want their material back like sexo'sfraudsters etc
. Which is a question in its self. If Police or FBI find any evidence of criminal offending are they able to use that against an individual as its been illegally obtained??
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My understanding was that it was more likeHmmmm...so one judge said "Go for it, you've enough evidence for me to agree to your search warrant application"
And a second judge sez "Oh no, you DIDN'T have enough grounds to be granted a search warrant"
Weird eh??
judge #1 said yep, you have enough evidence, heres a warrant, and
judge $2 said, hey!! the warrant you had didnt entitle you to grab all the stuff you grabbed.
maybe I have that wrong? guess it doesnt matter now anyway
as for the last part of your post, thats interesting, normaly ID say no, illegaly obtained evidence is inadmissable in court, however NEW ZEALAND said it was illegally obtained, but now its in te USA, where they dont have to recognize our judgement, so Id say they can use any of that evidence how they please in the states.Not arguing the policing or Legal aspect..
What I don't understand is why Megaupload was targeted and not YouTube, 4Shared, FileTube, MediaFire, and the other thousands of file sharing and storage sites?
I'd suggest thought that there are some criminal elements who will not want their material back like sexo's
as for the first part of your post, why mega upload? Id say his history, he has a shady past and they thought that would help to contribute towards a slam dunk, easy case, which would set a precedent, and make future runs at other sites a little easier with a precedent behind them. it makes sense if they are thinking about how to play the long game. I doubt they exopected a hiccup like this from little old ENZED!
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Youtube is actually involved in a case on pretty much the exact same grounds - making money off users pirating content. They were sued by Viacom back in 2007, won the case in 2010, but then had that win overturned in appeals court earlier this year, so Viacom can now go for a jury trial, although I don't think they've actually announced whether or not they're continuing the legal action or not.
As for why Megaupload, it's because they were a whole lot more dangerous to the media companies than any of their rivals. They were on the verge of launching a legal free music site called MegaBox, which was pretty much aimed at putting traditional record companies out of business and providing a new music publishing paradigm more in line with modern technology. Basically it works by giving music for free, with ads on the page, and 90% of the income goes straight to the artist, rather than the record companies taking the lions share, as is the case at the moment. Dotcom has actually just said a day or two ago that he still plans on launching this service, so they haven't managed to kill that potential competition off yet.
He'd also just seriously embarrassed the media companies, having released a song a month before featuring some big name artists like Kanye West, Alicia Keys, will.i.am, P Diddy, and Snoop Dogg, basically coming out in support of Megaupload. When you spend a good portion of your time decrying Megaupload for being a haven of piracy because it harms your artists, it's pretty embarrassing when some of your top talent then comes out in support of them. To make matters worse, some moron at UMG then illegally had the video taken down using a DMCA request, which turned the whole thing into even more of a shitstorm - being caught abusing the piece of legislation you've just spent years complaining doesn't offer you enough power to take down infringing content doesn't really help your cause any.
That wasn't the first case of media companies abusing the DMCA and illegally having content removed using bogus DMCA requests, but it was much higher profile than most other cases, and attracted a whole lot more attention on the issue.
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Yeah but ya gotta smile at the delicious irony - the evidence stayed here, the FBI only copied. So what's lost? Nadda if we accept the "copying cannot be wrong" logic...
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Indeed! Such irony...Yeah but ya gotta smile at the delicious irony - the evidence stayed here, the FBI only copied. So what's lost? Nadda if we accept the "copying cannot be wrong" logic...
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