Dotcom crypto keys not for the FBI: NZ High Court A New Zealand court has ruled that data on Kim Dotcom's hard drives held by the FBI will remain encrypted, even if the Megaupload founder hands his encryption keys over to NZ police. Dotcom has been in a long wrangle with authorities over the contents of the drives. During the 2012 raid in New Zealand that killed off …
I've no doubt they could get him for contributory infringement infringement with ease. I suspect the delay comes from a hunt for something a bit stronger to use. If he goes to jail for copyright infringement it may just create a martyr and stir up anti-US sentiment - but with a good search they might find something that would destroy his reputation too. Some real fraud would work - Dotcom has a history of involvement with dodgy businesses, there might be something there.
Don't understand how one can go to jail for (what should be) a civil offence.
Seems the lawmakers have been bought by big business to do their dirty work for them when they should be trying to sue each individual copyright breach(er) themselves. Making the taxpayer pick up the tab AND impose much harsher penalties seems a bit cheeky.
Gorilla-style tactics: Raid, rightly or wrongly, doesn't matter. Get 'evidence'. Claim to have enough 'evidence' to prosecute. Claim 'rico' statute applies, seize any and all assets that can be seized. Keep hemming and hawing so that court case get as drawn out as possible. Laugh behind closed doors as poor 'defendant' quietly goes bankrupt, or otherwise watch as defendant's life / business unravels.
Now that Mona has left him, I predict that Kim quietly goes away in no more than three years....
They know what is on the drives but can't use it as evidence because it has been illegally obtained. Hence they want the keys in an attempt to legitimise the evidence... Of which there is probably very little.
Still, if he had been here in the UK he'd still be holed up in some South American embassy or on a plane with a free ticket to the USA courtesy of our weak judiciary and Government.
Which is why Kim suspects they have already cracked his crypto. But without legitimately obtained keys, they can't use anything they may have found (or now use any of it anyway if it was ruled they should never have been given copies of the drives in the first place).
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