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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16787486
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US prosecutors have said that data belonging to Megaupload users and stored by third parties could be deleted as soon as Thursday.
Users have been unable to access data since the file-sharing service was raided.
The warning was made in a letter filed by the US Attorney's Office.
Any chance we will see class action suits against the government for bajillions in lost data from 50 million innocent victims of government abuse?
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Let us hear from the Obama, Bush, Romney appologists and get their take on this...
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How does Bush get lumped into this?
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Eager_Igraine posted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16787486
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US prosecutors have said that data belonging to Megaupload users and stored by third parties could be deleted as soon as Thursday.
Users have been unable to access data since the file-sharing service was raided.
The warning was made in a letter filed by the US Attorney's Office.
Any chance we will see class action suits against the government for bajillions in lost data from 50 million innocent victims of government abuse?
and what, is the government going to borrow more tax payer money to repay the tax payers who have been wronged?
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cabbyman posted:
How does Bush get lumped into this?
Bush, Obama, Romney... They are all establishment backed politicians.
I want to hear what the appologists for the establishment have to say...
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cabbyman posted:
How does Bush get lumped into this?
iknowrite? It is so obviously Cheney's fault.
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Can we please add Clinton to this list and also the great Ronald Reagan?
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cabbyman posted:
Can we please add Clinton to this list and also the great Ronald Reagan?
Sure, I don't see why not but I think it's a bit of a stretch as most of us weren't here on this message board during their terms...
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Eager_Igraine posted:
Any chance we will see class action suits against the government for bajillions in lost data from 50 million innocent victims of government abuse?
That suit would be tossed instantly, as you would be suing the wrong party. You cannot sue the government for this lost data as the government has no responsibility of care for your data. MegaUpload does, so they're the ones you have to target.
The government is not deleting the data, nor are they asking that it be deleted. The MegaUpload hosting providers are the ones that might nuke the data for non-payment.
The only way customers get a case into court is to sue MegaUpload for the loss of the data. MegaUpload would have to then sue the government as it was they who froze the assets that resulted in the non-payment, but end-users themselves would have absolutely no case against the government.
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Banana republics, rule by whimsy instead of ethical principled law. These are no different than the crown ruling by whimsy. They don't even care to bother themselves about the ramifications of their actions because like the crown you have to go to their kangaroo courts to beg them to reconsider their actions (often after the fact).
Who cares if millions of peons had a business contract, who cares if losses are incurred, the government laughs at you while it takes what it wants when it wants. It doesn't need any stinking due process, that is for lessor beings who have no government clout.
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cabbyman posted:
How does Bush get lumped into this?
Bush, Obama, Romney... They are all establishment backed politicians.
I want to hear what the appologists for the establishment have to say...
Its the same response as the one to that gawd awful piece-of-shit anti-constitutional bill Obama just signed - i]if you don't break the law you have nothing to fear, ii] they can't help it, they had to!
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cabbyman posted:
How does Bush get lumped into this?
The category is more accurately named "Anybody but Ron Paul" because, obviously, Ron Paul could have stopped this whole thing with a totally-not-racist newsletter or something.
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It's funny how data owned by big corporations is valued so much that all kinds of laws have to be introduced to cater to them, and data owned by the average Joe can simply be taken away and deleted.
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It's funny how data owned by big corporations is valued so much that all kinds of laws have to be introduced to cater to them, and data owned by the average Joe can simply be taken away and deleted.
intellectual property is a right of the privileged few who control the government
besides, everyone knows you have to first pay sony for the right to call anyhting your puny ass does as intellectual property
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NuEM posted:
It's funny how data owned by big corporations is valued so much that all kinds of laws have to be introduced to cater to them, and data owned by the average Joe can simply be taken away and deleted.
Please RTFA.
The government is not deleting the data, nor are they requesting that the data be deleted.
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I am requesting the government delete all of Koneg's posts, data, and especially his icon.
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Yukishiro1 posted:
I am requesting the government delete all of Koneg's posts, data, and especially his icon.
/petition
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reesescups posted:
cabbyman posted:
How does Bush get lumped into this?
Bush, Obama, Romney... They are all establishment backed politicians.
I want to hear what the appologists for the establishment have to say...
I don't think I am an apologist for them, but I am sure you'll disagree so I'll say this. I don't care about megaupload users. I don't have any info there.
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What a screwed up situation. Im glad i dont put any of my stuff on public storage other than emails.
I dont think "cloud" if you want to call this that has any place with normal consumer data. It should probably only be used by big corps that use hundreds or more VMs.
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Yup. I use Carbonite for my business and personal stuff.
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ZigmundZag posted:
cabbyman posted:
How does Bush get lumped into this?
The category is more accurately named "Anybody but Ron Paul" because, obviously, Ron Paul could have stopped this whole thing with a totally-not-racist newsletter or something.
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Blame Obama
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somewhere lost in all the /outrage over Megaupload is the fact that they were willfully and deliberately, i'd even say gleefully, violating copyright and intellectual property law.
SOPA and PIPA are wrong, but so was this guy:
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Only if you believe in the religion of Intellectual Property. 
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Only if you believe in the religion of Intellectual Property.
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Like all religion that one is also dumb.
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SirGarth posted:
somewhere lost in all the /outrage over Megaupload is the fact that they were willfully and deliberately, i'd even say gleefully, violating copyright and intellectual property law.
SOPA and PIPA are wrong, but so was this guy:
Based on the media reports, that guy is a very naught guy and will have his day in court. I am somewhat more concerned about the millions of users of his site who may have been completely legitimate and doing legitimate business who are getting screwed in the crossfire.
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Why is Obama so totalitarian?
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The owner of that site was the number one cod player or something. He went to jail and now somebody else is number 1.
I wonder who the new badass number one is.
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