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   Anonymous
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   http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7054878/Dotcom-info-not-physical

   FBI agents who copied data from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's computers and took it overseas were not acting illegally because information isn't "physical material", the Crown says.

   The agents were accused of underhanded behaviour by Dotcom's lawyers in the High Court at Auckland yesterday, after revelations that the information was already in US hands.

   http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/7051842/Kim-Dotcoms-Megaupload-servers-too-big

   Kim Dotcom's Megaupload servers 'too big'

   Megaupload had 18 servers with a company called Cogent but they were so large the FBI could copy only two of them, he said.

   "It's simply too big a job. They wouldn't get a small way through it in that time."

   Dotcom's lawyer William Akel said there was a concern US authorities could make the matter take "as long as they say it could take".

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Anonymous
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   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10811266

   FBI sent cloned Kim Dotcom files despite judge's call
   FBI agents sent cloned copies of computers seized from Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload colleagues offshore just days after a judge said a court needed to decide if the agents were allowed to take the material, a court heard.
   Dotcom's lawyer Willy Akel said the FBI agents committed an "illegal act" when they sent the 18 cloned computers and other items to the United States by the courier company Fedex.
   Questions by Chief High Court Judge Helen Winkelmann led to the discovery the FBI had already taken copies of the evidence in question. Mr Akel said the paper trail showed the copying and sending of the information happened while defence lawyers were negotiating with the Crown and assurances had been given nothing would be sent.
   He said it was possible Crown Law had been kept in the dark and it had been "gazumped" by the FBI ahead of the proper court hearing.
   Mr Akel said police were operating under a legal direction to keep "custody and control" of the items seized by search warrant.
   "If a copy is made and that copy is allowed to make its way to a third party ... then the person in charge of custody and control has lost control."
   He said doing so would be an "illegal act".

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mikiem2
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   Sadly I don't think the FBI's alleged behavior surprises all that many people in the US.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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