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Originally Posted by AdultKing
I can't imagine prosecutors would want to handle more than one big prosecution like this at a time. I think MegaUpload is very much a test case.
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That's why I'm surprised the other sites are shitting themselves so badly; it's probably the 'safest' time for them, because until MU is concluded I doubt the Feds could or would do anything with any other site. Especially as, AFAIK, the MU bust relied on an informant within MU supplying inside information, which is unlikely to be the case at any other site. It's not like the Feds had nothing better to do the other day and decided to start fucking up a file locker every week.
The MU case will drag on for years. Until that time I would say there's no chance that another file locker would even get investigated, let alone busted, unless they did something egregiously stupid.
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Originally Posted by rogueteens
start rumours about oron about to do a shut and run with the money while the "accounts are being checked"!  |
That one's probably true anyway. I think the lockers who have made a boatload of money will take all this as a sign to get out. Other sites might hope to mop up the traffic from dead sites and will get back to business as usual in a month or two, and there must surely people looking at what Kim Dotcom made, rather than his potential jail time, and thinking it's worth a shot to start their own file share site.