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)

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