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True, but this went all the way up to the vice-president. I don't think anybody, NSA included, really want the vice-president to use his powers to prevent peopl

True, but this went all the way up to the vice-president. I don't think anybody, NSA included, really want the vice-president to use his powers to prevent people from downloading DVD rips of Avatar...

snowwrestler 13y ago
Federal agencies are limited by the scope of their mission. The scope of the NSA's mission is defense, not criminal investigation and prosecution. And even if the NSA did collect the info, it's not clear that they could do so in a way that would allow it to be admissible in a federal court--making it effectively useless.
- oijaf888 13y ago
  Parallel construction?
- nanidin 13y ago
  Is it legally possible to FOI / subpoena / sue the NSA for records the NSA has? That could be a good weapon in the copyright infringement cases they like to throw out - probably a lot stronger link than just IP.