[pp.int.general] Megaupload lawyer Q&A on DOJ criminal case

[Andrew Norton]

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On 1/21/2012 10:48 AM, Ryan Moffitt wrote:
> This was the reasoning behind the USPP hosting its servers in Iceland
> under a .is domain

Yet in doing so, we lose any ability to turn it to our advantage via
publicity (bringing things back up on that domain, if need be, AFTER a
theoretical seizure). also, the very nature of what we're doing is
fundamentally different; political party and file locker are two
different things.

The other problem is the loss of identity of the domain name. a .is
domain looks less 'official', the sort you see in spam, or as a
shortlink, and gives confusion over where the party is based. It's why
I've always been opposed to using the pirate.is domain for the party,
especially when we have the US-specific pirate-party.us (which should be
coming back up in the next day or two).

Andrew

> 
>> On Jan 21, 2012 6:54 AM, "Daniel Riaño" <danielrr2 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:danielrr2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     *Q: Why was this indictment in Virginia, for a Hong Kong based
>>     company?*
>>
>>     A: Apparently there were some servers used by Megaupload sites in
>>     Virginia.
>>
>> The moral is: put all your servers, and *all of them* outside the USA
>> if you are in the business of file-sharing.
>>
>> The most worring side of this story is all the data belonging to
>> people who were using Megaupload to store or share their files, or
>> their business files, are now out of their reach, and in the hands of
>> a foreign boureau of investigation, whitout any reason for that, as
>> long as their files are concerned. I think this is bad enough.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/1/21 Christian Hufgard <pp at christian-hufgard.de
>> <mailto:pp at christian-hufgard.de>>
>> >
>> > On 21.01.2012 11:44, eduardo at partidopira...
>>
>>
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