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

Richard Stallman rms at gnu.org
Mon Jan 23 08:04:01 CET 2012


    > Seriously, why should it matter?  If a company operating in another country
    > does a kind of business that is illegal in the US, does that justify
    > arresting the management and trying them in the US?

    The company operated in the US. They had a couple of hundred servers in
    the US and they adressed US customers. To they were acting on the us
    market 

Why should that matter?

	   and had to care for US law.

You've changed the topic from how things should be, to what power the
US claims.

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