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by scott_s 5254 days ago
That's a rational, measured assessment. You bring up an excellent point at the end: if all of their evidence is from the emails, how did they get the warrant to obtain the emails?

I submitted it, but it looks like you already did so last week, and it didn't get much attention. I hope more people can see it from this thread.

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Thanks. I have resubmitted it, assuming that is ok to do.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529536

I have also been spending some time reading over the Viacom vs YouTube case. The parallels between it and Megaupload are striking - the difference being that Megaupload is a criminal case while YouTube was a civil case. I found that the YouTube internal emails were much more incriminating than the MegaUpload emails. I plan on writing up the details of the emails and other parallels between the two cases sometime this week.

Maybe they had a source inside MegaUpload.