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[quote=”unkn0wnx” post=105459]Is its just me or anyone else noticed that same group of people who want to give terrorist due process wouldn’t give due process to Megaupload?

Have you not read any of the articles? They have been building the case for about 2 years. Despite the timing, this has NOTHING to do with Sopa/Pipa. Megaupload had servers in the US which provided jurisdiction. Megaupload was knowingly breaking the law for it’s 7 years in operation. What is it about spending 2 years gathering evidence, making proper arrests, and holding for trial does not qualify as due process to you? They have not even held the trial yet.[/quote]

I read three articles, none mentioned two years building the case.
Wikipedia mentioned “Rothken claims that the raid was unjustly swift and did not give his client the opportunity to defend himself”. That’s the impression I got.

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[quote=”unkn0wnx” post=105459]Is its just me or anyone else noticed that same group of people who want to give terrorist due process wouldn’t give due process to Megaupload?

Have you not read any of the articles? They have been building the case for about 2 years. Despite the timing, this has NOTHING to do with Sopa/Pipa. Megaupload had servers in the US which provided jurisdiction. Megaupload was knowingly breaking the law for it’s 7 years in operation. What is it about spending 2 years gathering evidence, making proper arrests, and holding for trial does not qualify as due process to you? They have not even held the trial yet.[/quote]
Do you want to elaborate on “this has NOTHING to do with Sopa/Pipa”. Piracy has been around for decades, Megaupload just now got shut down. I am no math major, but I think its statistically unlikely.

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Do you want to elaborate on “this has NOTHING to do with Sopa/Pipa”. Piracy has been around for decades, Megaupload just now got shut down. I am no math major, but I think its statistically unlikely.

I already addressed my thoughts on the timing in my first post on page 1 of this thread.The Megaupload investigation is about 2 years old. Sopa and Pipa are not 2 years old, they are far younger. The case is older and therefore cannot be a child of Sopa or Pipa. At best they are siblings with Piracy and laws like Digital Millennium Copyright Act as the “parents”

The timing does make sense. Megaupload has been around for 7 years. The investigation began about 2 years ago. There was likely an incubation period building up towards the launch of the investigation that lasted 6 months to a year. That would backdate things to Megaupload being around 3 years old. Three years old would have been enough time for the site to grow from an unknown fledgeling site into one of the larger if not already largest piracy sites around. Upon attaining size and notoriety, Megaupload would have become a target for legal authorities. Taking down the largest criminal organizations serves 2 purposes. As an example to discourage others, and as a swift way to remove the largest volume of illicit material at once.

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I read three articles, none mentioned two years building the case.
Wikipedia mentioned “Rothken claims that the raid was unjustly swift and did not give his client the opportunity to defend himself”. That’s the impression I got.

There was a link to an article at arstechnica posted on the first page of this thread that says it in the very last sentence of the article…
“This criminal case, more than two years in development, shows that law enforcement can take strong action to protect American intellectual property stolen through sites housed in the United States.”
Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars

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