Er I'm sorry but do you mean joesch...@corp.megaupload.com type emails, or joesch...@hotmail.com type emails?
If megaupload's corporate email was siezed to provide due diligence in such a prosecution - it would quite probably not constitute private mail On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Steven Bellovin <s...@cs.columbia.edu> wrote: > > > The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor > at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors obtained > the private e-mails of Megaupload’s operators in an effort to show they > were operating in bad faith. > > "The government hopes to use their private words against them," Mr. > Kerr > said. "This should scare the owners and operators of similar sites." -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)