Megaupload.com seized

[Visgean Skeloru]

BTW: Anons are attacking back
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/01/internet-strikes-back-opmegaupload.html(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_involving_Anonymous#Operation_Megaupload)
but it does not seem to be as massive  as previous attacks... There
seems
to be lack of media coverage...

2012/1/20 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>

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> From: Steven Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:19:34 -0500
> To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists at gmail.com>
> Cc: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: Megaupload.com seized
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> On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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> > I would agree.  They've dotted every i and crossed every t here.
> >
> > This will inevitably be followed by a prosecution of some sort and/or
> > there's also scope for Megaupload to sue the USG for restitution.
> >
> > It'll be interesting to see how this pans out - especially wrt any
> > safe harbor provisions in the DMCA for providers (which do have a
> > provision for due diligence being exercised etc).
>
>
> Note this from the NY Times article:
>
>        The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor
>        at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors
> obtained
>        the private e-mails of Megauploadb s operators in an effort to show
> they
>        were operating in bad faith.
>
>        "The government hopes to use their private words against them," Mr.
> Kerr
>        said. "This should scare the owners and operators of similar sites."
>
> And see 17 USC 512(c)(1)(A) (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html
> )
> for why that's significant.
>
>                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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