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NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

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Re: NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

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Post by gozur88 »

turc1656 wrote: post #5
gozur88 wrote: post #3

Unlawful in New Zealand. I'd be surprised if what they did wasn't legal under US law.

Correct. I was wondering the entire time reading the link what exactly was illegal since it is fairly common knowledge that all nations spy on each other and in the US it is totally legal for the US government to spy on foreigners who are not on their soil.

It's a confusing headline. What the NSA does is probably illegal in every country but the US, but the implication is it's illegal in the US.

It's probable they do things that are illegal under US law, but I doubt this is one of them.

Re: NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

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Post by aptidude187 »

Fifer82 wrote: post #13
aptidude187 wrote: post #12

Can someone state in a nutshell why this guy keeps getting bullied by the government?

Piracy. MegaUpload was a huge warez distributor around the same time as RapidShare. File Hosters over HTTP

So why are rapidgator and uploaded or any other upload services getting off the hook

Re: NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

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Post by djrogers »

mtgx wrote: post #2

And now waiting for the other shoe to drop: FBI doing parallel construction with evidence obtained through that illegal NSA surveillance.

No need - there’s nothing in the article that indicates any US laws that were broken...

-edit to correct autocorrect

Re: NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

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Post by abfan1127 »

koolba wrote: post #4
gozur88 wrote: post #3

Unlawful in New Zealand. I'd be surprised if what they did wasn't legal under US law.

Short of political assassination, is anything done by the US government outside the US illegal under US law?

only if its forbidden by treaty.

Re: NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

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Post by cavanasm »

aptidude187 wrote: post #15
Fifer82 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piracy. MegaUpload was a huge warez distributor around the same time as RapidShare. File Hosters over HTTP

So why are rapidgator and uploaded or any other upload services getting off the hook

I'm not sure they are, they're just not nearly as public. Kim Dotcom is / was notoriously boastful about his actions, and all the money he made off those actions. I've never heard similar things about the founders of any other file hosting service founder/owner that is well known for piracy. Makes him an incredibly appealing target I think.
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