[ObviousScience]

It doesn't help their case in my mind that they probably broke the law with the seizures they performed: I was using Megaupload to store backups and distribute files I legally owned, such a game maps or documents.

During their raids, they seized the funds used to provision the servers, failed to preserve the data, went so far as to prevent efforts on the part of Megaupload to return the data to me, and failed to allow for any sort of process for me to claim it before the servers were destroyed.

That data wasn't specifically targeted in a forfeiture action, nor was it specifically accused of being infringing. The US government simply destroyed my data as part of their raid against Megaupload without any concern for the fact I was engaged in legal business with them, and simply using them for remote storage.

Nevermind that they induced a foreign government to illegally spy on one of their residents as part of a copyright enforcement action. That's just hideously ugly.

[Fuxy]

I would be nice if there was a way to calculate the amount of financial damage the US government did to legitimate users of the Mega Upload Service.

The US government should be held financially responsible for these.

Plus you could consider the failure of the US governments preservation of Mega Uploads data as destruction of evidence.

If the evidence is not present during the trial it didn't exist.

[longlivegnu]

Many Americans do not care if the government breaks the law and I'm sure the lawyers will try to justify it in courts.