Hiring one Canadian is prohibitively expensive, so instead they fight a legal battle to be able to send a team of Americans? That seems like a red flag to me. Even computer forensic professionals can't be that much more expensive than police officers and lawyers.
And in the meantime, Megaupload is caught in regulatory limbo, shut down in favor of its competitors' exponential growth.<p>Guilty until proven innocent.<p>That's why many companies try to avoid getting there, by lobbying for OPPOSING major parties, for instance.
> On Jan. 18, 2012, an Ontario judge granted a search warrant to seize 32 servers in Canada — equivalent to the amount of data stored on 100 laptops, according to Megaupload lawyers.<p>Wait what??? Neither servers nor laptops have any sort of "average HD size". This comparison seems quite stupid. It's not only apples and oranges to compare the two but provides no meaningful data at all....
Its before my morning coffee so maybe I am missing the reason but why can't it be indexed by Canadians? Is it because its an American case and they are only permitted to hold potential evidence, not assist in the investigation?
The site is shut down so the people involved have achieved their goal. I doubt that the defence is claiming that there was no copyrighted material in the users data stores. The case is really about refusal to pursue copyright enforcement. All the prosecution needs to do is drag this out to win.<p>So if you don't toe the line all your equipment gets seized. If you ever get it back it will be obsolete. You will also be tied up with legal stuff for a long time. That is the real message being sent here. The facts of the case don't matter.
Why do they need humans looking at files? Can't a program be created that scans disk contents and classifies them in whatever way they need it analyzed?