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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."
So their argument is basically "It was entrapment because you didn't let us delete the infringing files before the trial"?
Aaron Swartz committed a service violation that resulted in the loss of that service to thousands of other law abiding users for several days DO NOT FORGET.
He is no martyr, he was a punk and got popped for pilfering paid for content in order to "liberate it"
You steal, you steal. Doing electronically makes it wire-fraud.
Don't want to go to PMITAP? Don't commit wire-fraud.