In what reads more like a movie script, the US government filed a 90 page criminal indictment against 2 companies and 7 individuals for copyright infringement. Then they pressured New Zealand to send in armed forces to arrest a Dutch citizen for running an internet service.
What should worry many is these were criminal charges not for direct behavior, but for indirect behavior — the equivalent of jailing the photocopy company for what users copied. The defendants were denied due process: before they could defend themselves, the company was shut down, all assets seized, parties arrested and assets frozen.
I do not know all the facts of the case, but there is plenty of evidence to pass judgement on the Obama administration which trashed any notion of 'innocent until proven guilty.' The governments actions were directed by corporations, using the armed forces of the US as their henchmen to halt technology they don't like.
--MR
