Shame on the DOJ

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

I found this story over on the tech dirt website today and the more I read about it the angrier I become. Apparently the Department of Justice was looking at ninja video for sharing infringing files and contacted their Internet service provider Megaupload requesting cooperation. Megaupload cooperated with the DOJ by allowing them access to the servers and not allowing any files to be deleted per the DOJ could request. The DOJ even commented on Megaupload's cooperation…

“Megaupload complied with the warrant and cooperated with the government’s request,” Rothken said. He said Megaupload had gotten “a number of such warrant and subpoena type requests a year and still have an expectation that as classic ‘online service providers’ they are immune from liability for the acts of users who are the target of such warrants and subpoenas.”

Then after all of this to DOJ filed a case against Megaupload stating that there were infringing files on their servers and they knew about it. Really!?! Of course they knew about it because the DOJ said the files were there and asked them not to delete them. This is so wrong and I can't even begin to express how angry this makes me. You can read the full article here:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121121/06442521110/megaupload-helped-doj-ninjavideo-prosecution-doj-uses-that-against-megaupload.shtml