Under current law, the federal government can confiscate any property that it suspects of being used in the commission of a crime, even if the owner turns out to be completely innocent.

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"These people would redesign Microsoft products, confiscate Microsoft intellectual property and extend of the scope of the decree to markets not in this case or are in the infancy of innovation, " he said with more than a little emotion.

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