+1 to the attitude. It's all about getting the service back up and making it better. We (collectively) tend to spend too much time trying to figure out who to blame instead of just doing the cool shit that needs to be done. Kudos!
He claims that there's nothing that can be done, but there are definitely legal actions one can take in this scenario. Sure, they might not ever fully compensate him, nor convince the skeptics, but it will at least reveal the details behind the seizure, and it will send a message to both the FBI and to others like DigitalOne that could prevent further "seize first and ask questions later" style operations.
a) Spend money and time on legal action against the FBI for holding onto his servers for a couple of days while in the process of an investigation, in order to hopefully try and make a larger point.
and
b) Spending his time and no money by actually improving his bottom line by enhancing the features of his software,
you expect any rational person to choose (a) ?
I totally understand someone making a rational decision in favor of other priorities. It's what most people would do. But thank god for people who take the road less traveled. It's to them we owe the rights and freedom the rest of us take for granted. There's nothing "irrational" about that.
Fighting against the federal government over this seems like picking the wrong battle. He got is server back in a couple of days. Obviously its likely that the feds have already cloned it but its not like they kept it indefinitely or wiped it clean.
Does it suck? Yes. Is this something he should be fighting over? Not in my book.
I'm curious about what happened, but ultimately I put this down to an unfortunate side effect of using blades.