Recent actions by the the U.S. government in seizing domains, assets, and making arrests have shown an unseemly casual disregard for due process, the presumption of innocence and freedom from prior restraint. We feel that the public and the U.S. Constitution is better served if our public servants were more attentive to individuals' rights and freedoms.
Specific examples include the seizure of Dajaz1.com. And the heedless disregard for innocent clients storing of legal files on Megaupload and their rights to their data.
Due diligence by public officials should also include insuring that infringing files are truly infringing, not subject to fair use, not given consent by the rights owners, not fraudulently or accidentally claimed by non-rights owners, and not abusively claimed.



