Re: Megaupload.com seized

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

Er I'm sorry but do you mean joeschmoe () corp megaupload com type
emails, or joeschmoe () hotmail com type emails?

If megaupload's corporate email was siezed to provide due diligence in
such a prosecution - it would quite probably not constitute private
mail

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
>        The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor
>        at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors obtained
>        the private e-mails of Megaupload’s operators in an effort to show they
>        were operating in bad faith.
>
>        "The government hopes to use their private words against them," Mr. Kerr
>        said. "This should scare the owners and operators of similar sites."



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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)