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Wednesday January 16, 2013 |
Many readers will recall that nearly one year ago, the U.S. government launched
a global takedown of Megaupload.com, with arrests of the leading
executives in New Zealand and the execution of search warrants in nine
countries. Canada was among the list of participating countries as the
action included seizure of Megaupload.com servers located here. While
the failed attempt
(thus far) to extradite Megaupload mogul Kim Dotcom to the U.S. has
attracted the lion share of attention, the U.S. government has quietly
been working to obtain access to all the data stored on seized computers
in other jurisdictions.
Last week, an Ontario court rejected
a request to send mirror-imaged copies of 32 computer servers to
authorities in the U.S., indicating that a more refined order is needed.
Megaupload did not contest the seizure of the computers. It did argue,
however, "that there is an enormous volume of information on the servers
and that sending mirror image copies of all of this data would be
overly broad, particularly in light of the scantiness of the evidence
connecting these servers to the crimes alleged by the American
prosecutors." The company added that the volume of data on the 32
servers was equivalent to 100 laptop computers and that a review of the
content by the court was appropriate.
In response, the judge asked the two parties to refine the proposed
order by limiting what is disclosed to what is relevant to the case. The
conclusion states:
the appropriate balance of the state interest in gathering evidence
and privacy interests in information can be struck by an order that the
servers be brought before the court pursuant to s.15 (2) so that the
court can make an order refining what is to be sent. By this, I do not
mean that at this stage the servers must physically be delivered to the
courthouse. The application for a sending order is adjourned without a
fixed return date, returnable on 7 days’ notice. If counsel are unable
to agree as to how the scope of relevant material is to be defined then
the matter may be brought back before a judge of this court for
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Tuesday January 24, 2012 |
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Joe Karaganis has a must-read
post
on the piracy figures involving Megaupload, as he persuasively argues
that the profitability of piracy on cloud storage sites is massively
overstated.
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