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FBI Claims Copying Data is Not Stealing

Ironic defense provides irony to Megaupload case.

By: David Merline

Web2Carz Managing Editor

Published: June 9th, 2012

  

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The government’s case against file-hosting giant Megaupload just keeps getting weirder. Earlier this week Megaupload petitioned a federal court to dismiss the government’s case, and now they are claiming that the FBI illegally copied data from Kim Dotcom’s computer in New Zealand. And the FBI’s response is puzzlingly ironic: Since the files the FBI copied are digital, not physical, it can’t be considered theft.

That’s a fascinating argument, considering the entire case against Megaupload is based on the supposedly “illegal” copying of digital files. So if it’s not illegal for the FBI to copy digital files, then nothing Megaupload did could be illegal either.

“The first [copies] were sent without the New Zealand Police having any say in it whatsoever. If [they] went offshore without the consent of the Attorney General, it was an illegal act,” said Dotcom’s lawyer, William Akel.

New Zealand authorities seized 18 servers from Dotcom, but the FBI only had storage capacity enough to copy two of them.

The U.S. government is trying to get New Zealand to extradite Dotcom so that he can stand trial for multiple copyright counts. 

I face this double standard every day. Governmenet drones are above the law of the commoner.

People have been trained to accept Big Brother. Ever notice police part their civilian cars wherever they like?  Haven't noticed? Just stand outside a police station and see how cars are parked, 

I can guarantee the FBI will not see any irony and the Court will rubber stamp whatever the government wants. Logic has been murdered long ago.

Day by day, you become a cypher.