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What were they even looking for? It was a copyright infringement claim - no reason for any of this. Did they worry that Kimble had a Dr. Evil escape pod?

by magoon 13y ago

alan_cx 13y ago
Well, yes there is. But as you should see below, the reason cant be stated here because it will get down voted and eventually disappear. I suppose we could call it "crowd censorship". Edit: OK, egg on face. Its now very visible. I'll eat the humble pie and shut the hell up.
crb 13y ago
Worse: "the FBI actually believed Dotcom had a Dr. Strangelove-style “doomsday device” that was capable of wiping out all evidence of Internet piracy with the flick of a switch." http://bgr.com/2012/08/10/kim-dotcom-raid-fbi-feared-doomsday-device/ http://bgr.com/2012/08/10/kim-dotcom-raid-fbi-feared-doomsda...
- e40 13y ago
  That sounds like the type of thing people make up after the fact to justify their actions.
  - arethuza 13y ago
    If someone can make that up you wonder why they don't just accuse him of being in Al-Qaeda or having WMD and simply bomb him. Would save all the tedious business of due process and evidence...
- knome 13y ago
  What's laughable is that if he had such a device, it's almost certain he would have a 3rd party capable of deploying in the event of, say, a highly publicized police raid of his home to arrest him. Of course, the counter to that would be to contact whoever hosts his data ( it's doubtful it's in his basement ) and have them pull the plug before the raid. Of course, if you do that, there's little point in raiding his house in the first place as the "doomsday device" would be neutralized. A simple summons would likely have been sufficient. "Hi, we've taken your servers from the co-lo, come in for questioning by tomorrow at blah blah blah". What if he runs? Who gives a shit? It was a copyright infringement case. If he runs, you then lock his assets, put him on a watch list and let him crawl back out at his leisure, letting his servers rot in an evidence locker somewhere. I'm not sure how they justify the car removal at all. I suppose they didn't, since the warrant was deemed to be overreaching. This was just ridiculous.

What were they even looking for? It was a copyright infringement claim - no reason for any of this. Did they worry that Kimble had a Dr. Evil escape pod?

by magoon 13y ago

What were they even looking for? It was a copyright infringement claim - no reason for any of this. Did they worry that Kimble had a Dr. Evil escape pod?

alan_cx 13y ago

Well, yes there is. But as you should see below, the reason cant be stated here because it will get down voted and eventually disappear. I suppose we could call it "crowd censorship". Edit: OK, egg on face. Its now very visible. I'll eat the humble pie and shut the hell up.

crb 13y ago

Worse: "the FBI actually believed Dotcom had a Dr. Strangelove-style “doomsday device” that was capable of wiping out all evidence of Internet piracy with the flick of a switch." http://bgr.com/2012/08/10/kim-dotcom-raid-fbi-feared-doomsday-device/ http://bgr.com/2012/08/10/kim-dotcom-raid-fbi-feared-doomsda...

e40 13y ago
That sounds like the type of thing people make up after the fact to justify their actions.
- arethuza 13y ago
  If someone can make that up you wonder why they don't just accuse him of being in Al-Qaeda or having WMD and simply bomb him. Would save all the tedious business of due process and evidence...
knome 13y ago
What's laughable is that if he had such a device, it's almost certain he would have a 3rd party capable of deploying in the event of, say, a highly publicized police raid of his home to arrest him. Of course, the counter to that would be to contact whoever hosts his data ( it's doubtful it's in his basement ) and have them pull the plug before the raid. Of course, if you do that, there's little point in raiding his house in the first place as the "doomsday device" would be neutralized. A simple summons would likely have been sufficient. "Hi, we've taken your servers from the co-lo, come in for questioning by tomorrow at blah blah blah". What if he runs? Who gives a shit? It was a copyright infringement case. If he runs, you then lock his assets, put him on a watch list and let him crawl back out at his leisure, letting his servers rot in an evidence locker somewhere. I'm not sure how they justify the car removal at all. I suppose they didn't, since the warrant was deemed to be overreaching. This was just ridiculous.