Dotcom Busted

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ilesharing-6292290.html?origin=internalSearch

The timing of the raid is prescient. Earlier this week scores of major websites held a 24-hour protest against new anti-piracy laws making its way through the American legislature that would shift the responsibility of policing online piracy from law enforcement agencies to websites and internet providers.
Critics fear the laws will have a destabilising effect of freedom of speech on the web whilst supporters say the legislation is desperately needed to combat online piracy. If the arrests result in guilty convictions, the raid against MegaUpload could become an example of how traditional law enforcement agencies can tackle file sharing sites.

More at link.
 
so the FBI coordinated a search and seizure of a New Zealand property over a Hong Kong website?.....now I see what the opponents of SOPA were worried about.....
 
Ooops, looks like Uncle Sam messed up and overstepped.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10800409

The criminal charges against Kim Dotcom in the United States may never get to trial, the judge overseeing the case has told the FBI.

United States district court judge Liam O'Grady said he didn't know if "we are ever going to have a trial in this matter" after being told Dotcom's file-sharing company had never been formally served with criminal papers by the US.

The comment has been seized on by Dotcom's lawyers, who say it could lead to the extradition case in New Zealand being tossed out.

It follows a paperwork error by New Zealand authorities, who seized Dotcom's property without giving proper notice. The restraining order on his property was finally granted last week.

Megaupload was the world's biggest file-sharing website and claimed it was responsible for 4 per cent of internet traffic.

Dotcom faces a court hearing for extradition to the United States after a warrant was issued for him and six others on criminal copyright charges relating to music and movies on its computer servers.

Lawyers acting for the US have said they will argue Dotcom should be extradited because he was a member of an organised criminal group, which carries a sentence of five years.
 
This is interesting, especially the claim and argument by the FBI that they could not have stolen any property from Megaupload because it is not physical material.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7054878/Dotcom-info-not-physical

FBI agents who copied data from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's computers and took it overseas were not acting illegally because information isn't "physical material"
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shouldn't this provide some defense in any downloading trial?
 
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