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Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by forensic on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @11:24PM (#920997)
Many sectors of the law have been this way for awhile. It only takes an anonymous accusation for the FBI or DEA to raid your house, destroy it, seize your possessions, and never return them. You may only spend a few nights in jail but you'll never get your stuff back.

People have already been conditioned to accept this stuff as "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."

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Re:Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. by danek on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @11:43PM (#921025)
very true. and lets not forget they have incentive to act of any accusation since they get to seize a bunch of property and fund their department... i've heard that police departments in some places send the swat team for everything since they can seize whatever they want.
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