[pp.int.general] MegaUpload raided, shut down on request of US authorities

[Justus Römeth]

No Facebook and Google don't, since the EU and the US made an agreement (I
think that was the digital millenium act, but I might be wrong) for cases
like that; German companies don't need to comply to American data privacy
laws if they have American customers neither. Facebook may, because they
have an office in ireland (for tax reasons), Google does to a degree.
Under German law American authorities would have noto so easily access to
Twitter, FB or Google data, for example. But apparently they do.

Saying that Megaupload's case should be dealt with according to the law
they reside in, and not American law, is not neccessarily defending them,
It is defending the rule of law.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Christian Hufgard <pp at christian-hufgard.de
> wrote:

> On 21.01.2012 11:47, Justus Römeth wrote:
> > Megaupload conducted business through the internet, just as TBP is
> offering
> > services through the internet. What the British boy did was offering
> > services through the internet. US authorities say that in the case of the
> > British boy and Megaupload it falls under US jurisdiction, they will
> likely
> > go for the TPB people soon, too. None of them gear their service towards
> > the US market. Why can't they be tried in New Zealand? Why does it have
> to
> > be the US? With what right is the US responsible? Is everything we do in
> > the internet, or at least everything we do via .com, .org and .gov
> > addresses now subject to US laws? Can we ask Facebook and Google to
> comply
> > with German data privacy laws now finally because they operate .de
> > addresses?
>
> Did MegaUpload block IPs from the US? Did the adress US customers with
> their ads?
>
> And of course Facebook has to respect german privacy laws if the address
> german customers. As well as google has to do.
>
> > If there is a country that says private filesharing is legal, should it
> > still extract their citizens, or let their citizens be arrested, for
> > filesharing and be brought before the courts of another country? That is
> > what this question is coming down to. Whether we think that megaupload
> did
> > legitimate things or not, and comparing that to TPB doesn't matter then,
> as
> > US authorities in both cases think it's illegitimate.
>
> I don't care what US authorities think. I just see a difference between
> TPB's business model and MegaUploads. That's why I can defand TPB and
> blame MegaUpload.
>
> Christian
> ____________________________________________________
> Pirate Parties International - General Talk
> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/attachments/20120121/2837c217/attachment.html>