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police search, illegal seizure raids, great show of force, attacking him in his safe-house, unlawfully intercepted communications, unlawful surveillance, (still!) freezing his accounts... But somehow people pirating music/films is the worlds biggest problem? I'd say any government willing to break so many of it's own laws is the problem.

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Worse is any goverment willing to break their own laws for another government that is really a proxy for an industry... That's what's really scary about this

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> I'd say any government willing to break so many of it's own laws is the problem.

And when the breaking of laws becomes too onerous or attracts too much attention, they simply change the law to make their behavior legal, e.g. NDAA in the USA.

Or they delegate the activities to the NSA who work under-the-radar and nobody knows anything except what the whistle-blowers say.

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