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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday.
The company and seven of its executives were charged in a 5-count, 72-page indictment unsealed on Thursday accusing them of engaging in a wide-ranging and lucrative scheme to offer material online without compensating the copyright holders.
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http://news.yahoo.com/u-shutters-meg...011423326.html
Question is, how does the US have the right to seize servers that are not based in the US? Apparently up to 26 petabytes of information were hosted in the US, so I get that the FBI can seize that, but they also personally seized the founders belongings in New Zealand, with the help of the NZ government of course.