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"A judge has ordered the police to sift through all digital material taken illegally from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and to return anything irrelevant to the
by tripzilch 13y ago
"A judge has ordered the police to sift through all digital material taken illegally from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and to return anything irrelevant to their investigation--at their own cost."
ahahaha, have fun sifting through 25 petabytes of data!
As I've said before, I really wonder how much of that data really is copyrighted content (of course, just about all data is copyrighted in a manner, legally speaking, what I mean is stuff that the RIAA/MPAA have a copyright claim to, who are behind this international shakedown). Perhaps we'll find out, and if not I'd be very interested in the numbers because I can't seem to find a way to make them add up to something in the ballpark of 25PB.
- vidarh 13y agoUnless he had a full backup of MegaUpload at his house, it's not going to be 25 petabytes of data. MegaUpload was hosted in the US and any data stored with their hosting service would presumably be outside of the scope of this case. As far as I understand this ruling is about his personal data, confiscated when they raided his house.
- tripzilch 13y agoHm, okay, that makes sense. Didn't realize this was only the data they confiscated from his house.
- Kurtz79 13y agoThe idea of the police having to "sift" though all this data it's impossibly hilarious. It's like they have a court order that tells them to spend their day watching porn.
- bediger4000 13y agoAnd that sounds great, until you realize that it's Kim Dotcom's porn. I'm thinking that porn wouldn't really be to anyone's taste, and may actually be aesthetically repugnant.