Er I'm sorry but do you mean joeschmoe@corp.megaupload.com type emails, or joeschmoe@hotmail.com type emails? If megaupload's corporate email was siezed to provide due diligence in such a prosecution - it would quite probably not constitute private mail On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors obtained the private e-mails of Megaupload’s operators in an effort to show they were operating in bad faith.
"The government hopes to use their private words against them," Mr. Kerr said. "This should scare the owners and operators of similar sites."
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