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US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload
angry tapir writes "The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agency said in a new filing in the case. Megaupload's charges that the DOJ conspired to entrap the site on criminal copyright charges are 'baseless,' an official with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in a court document filed last week. Earlier this month, Megaupload filed court documents saying that in 2010 the DOJ asked the site, through its hosting vendor, to keep infringing files as part of a DOJ investigation, then later charged Megaupload with copyright infringement."
Aaron Swartz is dead. We do not forget.
You throw the weight of the entire government against those who offend the corporate intellectual property interests.
But not against the banksters, the torturers, the money-launderers, the bribers, the corrupt officials, the war criminals, the embezzlers, the fraudsters.
No, the FULL power of the DoJ is reserved for juvenile hackers, pot growers and pirates.
You want to know how the DoJ will prosecute a case?
Are there millions of victims, of one pwerful, privileged, rich organization?
Or powerful, privileged and rich victims?
In the first case, it would be bad for the "system" (ie the rich and powerful) so no prosecutions, no jail, no meaningful fines.
In the second case, merciless, ruthless, extortionate and crushing prosecution.
Aaron Swartz is dead, we will not forget