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

[Justus Römeth]

Moin

I also think that as a political party in a democratic system (as opposed
to, say, Kazakhstan, Belarus, or how Tunisia was before the revolution) it
is important to stay within the laws. We are trying to change the laws, not
break them. I understand that in the US it is infinitely more difficult for
the PP to make an impact than in any European country, but I don't think
moving everything to Iceland is a good idea for a political party. If you
ploan to do something illegal, you probably should not be a political group
seeking votes (unless, of course, you live in a non-democratic system).

-J

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:

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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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> Andrew Norton
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