The Fall Of Megaupload (Part Four)

Citing the initial indictment of Megaupload once more, it appears that the prosecution was simply looking for something nefarious out of intelligent website infrastructure, using legal concepts and hearsay to back their flawed intentions.  What's more, the indictment proclaimed the website's lack of search function to fall under criminal intent; however in other copyright cases such as Atari vs. Rapidshare lacking a search feature was seen as a way to prevent users from accessing such materials.  This classic catch twenty-two which worked paradoxically against the persecution during the case.

The devil is in the details here, as the warrants for said raid were not even valid as ruled by a New Zealand High Court Judge.  Furthermore, the pace of the raid was found to be unjustly swift, not allowing Kim Dotcom to defend himself in any way, shape, or form.  The USDOJ used charges of racketeering and money laundering to expedite the arrests, however this was in reference to the paid website hosting which Megaupload offered--an inherently legal activity.  How are we, as citizens of the United States, supposed to respect authorities trying to enforce copyright laws that can't even play by their own rules?  This has all shot the notion of copyright enforcement's credibility to shit as authorities' guerrilla, headstrong, and lobby-induced crackdowns become less meaningful, completely misplaced, and largely fruitless...

I hate to use this all-too ubiquitous card among those enraged about government musings, but it seems all of the other stops have been pulled already by the executive branch of our 'beloved' government...  How many tax payer dollars were wasted in the United States government's pursuit of the Megaupload case?  It is to mind that even a penny spent on harassing this business man was unjustly spent, as he was clearly only such.  Just because one provides a service that is effective in it's goals of spreading and sharing information does not mean that he should be persecuted for it's user's misuse of said service.  As I mentioned in the first part of this elongated diatribe, the internet was designed in such a fashion that encourages, no, demands the proliferation of all ideas whether they are protected by a now largely obsolete and archaic law or not!

While this section of The Fall Of Megaupload was distinctly fact-oriented, there is still more philosophical content to come, believe it or not.  Onward to the epilogue!