What about piracy allegations, or child porn? Wouldn't police have to grab servers quickly before their owner has a chance to erase things? I think it can happen in Germany. Not sure how solid the accusations have to be.
Child porn is criminal and has nothing to do with civil law.
Piracy in the way you're talking about it is also criminal law, i.e. you are getting the authorities to preemptively intervene for you. If you just need proof, their copying disks is sufficient, you wouldn't need to seize everything. This is in fact an alleged piracy case.
Civil law would come into play where you're trying to get an injunction to stop someone from continuing to commit piracy, e.g. Apple v. Psystar, where that sort of thing was handled in discovery.
What do you mean by copying disks? I think the police would like to check all servers for traces of illegal material. I find it shocking that it's possible, but then, we are always at the mercy of our governments.
What I mean is make disk image copies. That would be impractical for a big enough outfit, but I didn't gather something like this was needed, "Just Dial alleged that Infomedia 18 had copied its extensive database and was displaying the same on its website askme.in".
That's relatively easy to prove or disprove, they're alleged to be basing their business (or a part of it) on the stolen database. And the harm to Just Dial can be ended without shutting down all of Infomedia 18.
"[W]e are always at the mercy of our governments", but some governments are less arbitrary than others, and this does seem to correlate with healthy business climates.
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What about piracy allegations, or child porn? Wouldn't police have to grab servers quickly before their owner has a chance to erase things? I think it can happen in Germany. Not sure how solid the accusations have to be.
Child porn is criminal and has nothing to do with civil law.
Piracy in the way you're talking about it is also criminal law, i.e. you are getting the authorities to preemptively intervene for you. If you just need proof, their copying disks is sufficient, you wouldn't need to seize everything. This is in fact an alleged piracy case.
Civil law would come into play where you're trying to get an injunction to stop someone from continuing to commit piracy, e.g. Apple v. Psystar, where that sort of thing was handled in discovery.
What do you mean by copying disks? I think the police would like to check all servers for traces of illegal material. I find it shocking that it's possible, but then, we are always at the mercy of our governments.
What I mean is make disk image copies. That would be impractical for a big enough outfit, but I didn't gather something like this was needed, "Just Dial alleged that Infomedia 18 had copied its extensive database and was displaying the same on its website askme.in".
That's relatively easy to prove or disprove, they're alleged to be basing their business (or a part of it) on the stolen database. And the harm to Just Dial can be ended without shutting down all of Infomedia 18.
"[W]e are always at the mercy of our governments", but some governments are less arbitrary than others, and this does seem to correlate with healthy business climates.