Megaupload Debacle- by Anjali Dalal

by | February 9, 2012 | Other | Comments Off

ISP Resident Fellow Anjali Dalal has a great blog post on her site about the Megaupload Debacle.

 

Dalal writes:

I often use the word debacle for hyperbolic effect.  I’ll describe awkward social interactions or attempts in the kitchen as debacles.  But the way the government has handled the Megaupload case seems to be a debacle in the truer sense of the word: as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, “a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.”

In the case of Megaupload, the debacle is two-fold.  First, there are serious constitutional and sub-constitutional issues with the government’s behavior. For the purposes of this post, I will stick to the constitutional legal issues as they illustrate the broader themes that have turned this case into such a fiasco. Second, the Megaupload episode creates a number of practical issues in the short and long term – for Megaupload users and operators and users of cloud services generally.

 

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