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Former Federal Judge Calls US Prosecution Of Megaupload 'Really Outrageous'

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TechDirt; By Mike Masnick
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To hear folks in Hollywood talk about it, the US's indictment and prosecution of Megaupload are a done deal. Without any actual trial, people have decided that the company is clearly 100% evil and guilty. Yet, as we keep noting, the details of the indictment and prosecution keep turning up significant errors on the part of the US, as well as questions about the legality of what the US did. And plenty of people who really understand this stuff deeply are speaking out in agreement. The latest is a former federal judge, Abraham David Sofaer, who found the whole situation so troubling that he's helping the EFF -- for free -- with its efforts to get Megaupload users' data back.

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the more the US government agencies appears to be dups for the Copyright industries.
Yet another agency that should be busted under RICO...

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