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none of the megaupload crew are American, apparently.
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Nonetheless, when police came to his door, DotCom tried to evade arrest, according to authorities. "Despite our staff clearly identifying themselves, Mr Dotcom retreated into the house and activated a number of electronic locking mechanisms," Detective Inspector Grant Wormald said in a report from New Zealand news outlet TVNZ. "While police neutralized these locks he then further barricaded himself into a safe room within the house which officers had to cut their way into."
They said they found Dotcom near a sawed-off shotgun but he was arrested without further incident.
You really think they would take down your laptop?
Hardly.
Well I've had the same stance about these folks for a while on message boards with those who even claim to be anon too and am still walking. Perhaps if you get the word out that I'm not "one of them" then they'll take action. I thought they were for freedom of speech and all that? LOL.
I think it is strange that nobody in this thread bothered to look at the law itself. They are charged under Title 17 of the US Code, which refers to the Copyright Act of 1976.
When the Copyright Act of 1976 was modified in 1998, they included any copyrighted file (including images) downloaded to a PC, whether used for profit or not. Which means that since 1998 everyone who has used a browser on the Internet can be charged with copyright infringement. Just opening a web page with copyrighted material will cause that page to be cached and temporarily downloaded automatically by one's browser to their PC.
The 1998 modifications to the Copyright Act of 1976 was quite a concern at the time, even though it did not get much press. In practice, however, it was only used against those who sought to profit from other people's work. Since 1998, the Copyright Act of 1976 was modified in 2004, 2008, and 2010.
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