[148757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jan 21 20:01:49 2012
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:00:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F1B0DF1.7030809@lcrcomputer.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lyle Giese" <lyle@lcrcomputer.net>
> Not that I would not be a bit miffed if personal files disappeared, but
> that's one of the risks associated with using a cloud service for file
> storage. It could have been a fire, a virus erasing file, bankruptcy,
> malicious insider damage... Doesn't matter, you lost access to legit
> content in the crossfire.
I'm not sure this is actually true. The Law generally recognizes 'accident'
as a means for relieving people of responsibility for criminal acts -- it
can't *be* a criminal act without scienter on the part of the doer.
In this case, the doer was negligent, rather than purposefully malicious,
but we have solutions for that as well.
I hope that we don't see a class-action lawsuit against the feds... I wanna
see them have to defend each case individually.
Cheers,
-- jra
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