[148650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jan 19 22:07:54 2012
In-Reply-To: <64CFB59E-BB47-4D9F-8E14-AC9AA1D9D280@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:37:07 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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).
Probable cause for seizure should have been easy to establish - no
shortage of warez, cp etc on these free upload sites.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrot=
e:
> What differentiates this from many of the earlier domain name seizures is=
that
> this is based on a grand jury indictment, not just an administrative deci=
sion
> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. =C2=A0It may be heavy-handed or q=
uestionable,
> per the Ars Technica analysis, but as a matter of process it's about as g=
ood
> as you'll get.
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
