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This is very interesting and disturbing, but I fail to see what this has to do with a lawsuit in Sweden. As far as I am aware these two events are unrelated.


Only related in the sense that they reflect US government priorities for white collar prosecution. Their state department has been leaning on Sweden for some time to clean up The Pirate Bay [1]. And there's, of course, the recent MegaUpload news. Copyright enforcement is a critical issue for them, corporate malfeasance is not.

[1] http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09STOCKHOLM141.html#par12




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