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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by ec429 on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:24AM (#3489518)
Moreover, it's a foreign post office and much of the mail is foreign - since when does the FBI have jurisdiction over the entire world?
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by balac on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:11AM (#3489686)
Surely if the servers are located in the US you cannot argue that it is really a foreign post office.
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by ec429 on Friday January 20, 2012 @05:25PM (#3491501)
If some airmail stages through a US airport, does the US have the right to rifle through the mailbags on the plane?
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by atakan_gurkan on Friday January 20, 2012 @06:21PM (#3491725)
Not that I think this analogy holds, but I believe they would have the right, unless there is an international treaty that forbids them from doing so. That's what sovereignty is about. It is a privilege to use a US airport for this purpose, not a right.
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