This reminds me of a fantastic picture of Kim Dotcom: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/kim-dotcom-is-tot...
It is over-the-top and ridiculous--just like Kim Dotcom.
New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US
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#12This probably goes against popular HN opinion, but good. I'm glad. He's a scumbag who profited TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off content that he knew to be copyright infringing. He deserves prison time.
What was the method for determining the value of the loss?
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#13This probably goes against popular HN opinion, but good. I'm glad. He's a scumbag who profited TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off content that he knew to be copyright infringing. He deserves prison time.
How does the prison term benefit those who were the victim of his crime? imho Seems more of a civil rather than criminal issue. I guess the threat of prison could be seen as a deterrent to others.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are your views on how it relates to the sovereignty of a nation?
New Zealand is a sovereign nation. One that has laws which established residency for Kim Dotcom. And one that has signed international treaties with other sovereign nations. New Zealand has used their own judicial system to reach this decision. They are behaving in accordance to their own laws and agreements they were willing participants to. In short, there's nothing wrong here. Not in the slightest.
As a kiwi. This entire case makes me sick. This should have been thrown out of court a long time ago. This is a political move and nothing else. It's NZ on its knees sucking off the United States. From day 1 it's been illegal. Hidden process, and laws changed to make the process more legal. I hate my country now.
Re: New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US
#15This probably goes against popular HN opinion, but good. I'm glad. He's a scumbag who profited TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off content that he knew to be copyright infringing. He deserves prison time.
I must admit I'm surprised at this verdict. I agree he probably has broken US copyright law, but the crown also broke several laws while conducting the case - data from his servers was sent to the US without legal authorisation, for instance.
From a non-legal perspective, many Kiwis are uneasy at the level of force that the police used in the raid, and also at just how far NZ police bent over backwards at the behest of an overseas commercial entity.
Re: New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US
#16This probably goes against popular HN opinion, but good. I'm glad. He's a scumbag who profited TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off content that he knew to be copyright infringing. He deserves prison time.
What was the method for determining the value of the loss?
Considering there isn't a way to calculate the amount of money lost due to piracy in any accurate way it's essentially a made up number. Are the people who downloaded their content from mega likely to purchase the content if it isn't available from mega or is it more likely they'd use yet another piracy service?
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#17The New Zealand government spent $5.8M NZD prosecuting a man for a law that holds a maximum fine of $150,000 in the country he's being prosecuted in.
Bollocks.
Re: New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US
#18This probably goes against popular HN opinion, but good. I'm glad. He's a scumbag who profited TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS off content that he knew to be copyright infringing. He deserves prison time.
I don't believe copyright infringement should be extraditable.
It's not. It's the other charges they slapped on top to justify it.
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#20I've got to say that this looks like it was fixed to me. The judgement was predetermined at the behest of the US government and the MPAA, a commercial entity.
I confess that I'm not well traveled, and that I've never been to the Southern Hemisphere, but how independent is the NZ judiciary?