XPost: alt.2600.warez, misc.consumers   
   From: Tony@TheDeli.Sandwich   
      
   So none of the members of the FBI have accounts with Megaupload.. Good way to   
   get your head blown off fucking with the wrong people and the FBI is indeed   
   fucking with the wrong people.   
      
   Geoffrey Welsh wrote:   
      
   > root wrote:   
   > > In either case it seems a blow to "cloud" file storage.   
   > > If the provider of the storage facilities can be held   
   > > liable for the files that is a problem.   
   >   
   > Based on the information I have seen so far, *diligent* online storage   
   > services don't have a problem; the charge against this particular   
   > organization is that they had been informed of copyright and illegal content   
   > and chose not to do anything about it.  I understand that the prosecutors   
   > have evidence in the form of internal email showing that the operators of   
   > the site knew about the content.   
   >   
   > In general, if a service provider acts to remove offending user-provided   
   > content once notified, they are not held liable for it.   
   >   
   > > I have heard of cases where a landlord has been found   
   > > to have some responsibility for illegal activities   
   > > in rented premises.   
   >   
   > That's usually because renters have little if any savings and few if any   
   > assets to sieze while landlords - whether individuals or corporations -   
   > obviously have assets *and* an insurance policy.  This is why lawyers, when   
   > suing for civil damages, sue everyone they can find connected to the matter   
   > by up to six degrees of Kevin Bacon in hopes that their clients will receive   
   > some compensation from someone: no, there was no way that the landlord could   
   > possibly have known that the tenant was throwing a party that weekend, let   
   > alone intervened to prevent a drunk guest from driving home and running over   
   > this poor family's breadwinner... but he has money - he owns TWO houses,   
   > after all! - and doesn't that young family deserve *something* to help them   
   > through the dark and difficult days ahead?  And don't feel bad for him, it   
   > will be covered by his insurance, anyway.   
      
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   manners   
      
   Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs but got fired the first day on   
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   Bur-ring, i'll get this one: WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM JERK!!? We're here to help you   
   dickweed, ok, ok give the power cord the jiggily piggily wiggily all the while   
   pushing the power button repeatedly now take everything out of your computer   
   except the power supply and *one* stick of ram. Ok get the next sucker on the   
   phone.   
      
   Deirdre Straughan (Roxio) is a LIAR (Deirdre McFibber)   
      
   There's the employer and the employee and the FROGGER and the FROGEE, which one   
   are you?   
      
   Hamster isn't a newsreader it's a mistake!   
      
   El-Gonzo Jackson FROGS both me and Chuckcar (I just got EL-FROG-OED!!)   
      
   I hate them both, With useless bogus bullshit you need at least *three*   
   fulltime   
   jobs to afford either one of them   
      
   I'm a fulltime text *only* man on usenet now. The rest of the world downloads   
   the binary files not me i can't afford thousands of dollars a month   
      
   VBB = Volume based billing. How many bytes can we shove down your throat and   
   out   
   your arse sir?   
      
   UBB = User based bullFROGGING   
      
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   Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions beyond   
   the   
   realm of understandability   
      
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