Megaupload.com seized

Fri Jan 20 03:48:26 UTC 2012

Er I'm sorry but do you mean joeschmoe at corp.megaupload.com type
emails, or joeschmoe at 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 at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
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>        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.
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>        "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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