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This 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.
And Google has made billions from infringing content through YouTube. Are you going to say that Larry and Sergey should be arrested too?
Apparently calling the US government corrupt gets you banned now on HN
This just feels like a waste of taxpayer money, is Kim Dotcom worth extraditing?
Shady guy, shady service, shady investigation, shady trial, shady judgement, shady result. Did I miss anything?
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.
This is actually a still from this also-fantastic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf3bjKwwlMM TL;DW: A lap of the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife in Kim Dotcom's fleet of three Mercedes Benz CLK DTMs. The drivers are Kim Dotcom, his CMO from Megaupload, and Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen. From the video description: "The production involved 30 cameras, 100+ crew, 2 helicopters, 2 camera cars and one…
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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.
Would you rather your country act as a safe haven to criminals in exchange for money?
That's not the issue here.
People commit crimes in every country. They should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No one is arguing that.
The issue is that you're suggesting that everyone should obey american law, which has been shown to be corrupt and driven entirely by campaign donations; while the locals are arguing that, perhaps, their own government should say...
...use its own laws, to prosecute its own citizens, rather than the laws from another country.
Do you think women should be punished in America for not wearing a hijab in public? That the tenants of Sharia law should be upheld in your country, because they are the laws of another country?
No? Right then, like I said...
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And Google has made billions from infringing content through YouTube. Are you going to say that Larry and Sergey should be arrested too?
There are significant differences. For starters, YouTube worked with the government to establish a framework for making copyright management even vaguely tractable online where it wasn't before. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2807622?hl=en Kim Dotcom, in contrast, basically tried to thumb his nose at several hundred years of intellectual property law shared among the former members of the British Empire. T…
You would think not existing in the jurisdiction would be enough. Apparently not.
If it weren't for rampant copyright infringement, the industry would still be stuck in the dark ages.
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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.
Would you rather your country act as a safe haven to criminals in exchange for money?
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Ahh, so they're fraudulently charging him in order to justify it. Why haven't the US attorneys responsible for this been disbarred?
Because the charges aren't fraudulent. They're dependent upon the secondary copyright infringement charge, but racketeering and money laundering are quite serious.
Those charges seem serious because they're associated with organized crime, but that's not the case here.