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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's super evident when the RIAA and MPAA sent ICE to New Zealand to raid the Kim Dotcom estate on grounds of media piracy. They actually used other ambiguous charges like conspiracy and espionage which are what the US legal system uses when they don't like what you're doing but don't have a specific crime against it. It's been over a decade and its still in court.

ICE also was raiding Florida repair shops for servicing Apple products without an Apple license, one of the events that drove the current right-to-repair movement.