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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Yeap, because they may have been facilitating U.S. citizens in breaking U.S. law on U.S. soil. Copyrights are also governed by international agreements, so there is a huge incentive for foreign governments to cooperate.
Now I don't agree with a government taking illegal actions on either home or foreign soils, and believe that they should be held accountable. However illegal activities have been conducted online for far too long simply because there is minimal accountability. (Law breakers can go to foreign soil to delay arrest and prosecution, or even seek nations that will protect them from arrest and prosecution.) So something needs to be done.
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That doesn't make sense, either common or legal ..... the individual in the US has every opportunity to make their own decision prior to acting on any statement, matter or thing that is said or done over the internet.
Following on from your thinking then it seems to me that the US Gov't sees itself, and acts, as the over arching Police Force of the whole world if it believes that one or more of its citizens are acting as a result of a conversation or literature that 'ended up' in the US, and others acted on it in such a way that crime/s were committed. The notion of self determination is missing.
See - doesn't make sense.
If the US didn't like what Megaupload was doing then simply stop it from being available in US internet space.
That's what China apparently does with various programs and/or features.
The US had/has options regarding the activities of Megaupload, it just didn't want to look like it was as controlling as China.