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Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

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Re: Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

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Awarded NZ$60,000 for “loss of dignity and injury to feelings” haha

Why the laugh? The State caused him injury. Would it be better to leave the injustice alone? Just say sorry? If this were a civil case he'd certainly be awarded monetary damages.

Re: Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

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post #2

Awarded NZ$60,000 for “loss of dignity and injury to feelings” haha

Why the laugh? The State caused him injury. Would it be better to leave the injustice alone? Just say sorry? If this were a civil case he'd certainly be awarded monetary damages.

Compared to payouts in other common law jurisdictions, that is, indeed, laughable.

Re: Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the laugh? The State caused him injury. Would it be better to leave the injustice alone? Just say sorry? If this were a civil case he'd certainly be awarded monetary damages.

Compared to payouts in other common law jurisdictions, that is, indeed, laughable.

What would a typical payout be?

Re: Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

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post #2

Awarded NZ$60,000 for “loss of dignity and injury to feelings” haha

Why the laugh? The State caused him injury. Would it be better to leave the injustice alone? Just say sorry? If this were a civil case he'd certainly be awarded monetary damages.

Kim dotcom would have to have dignity first in order to lose it

Re: Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

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I always wanted to know how is the damage done determined ?

"U.S. authorities say Dotcom and three co-accused Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material."

Distributing copyrighted stuff is illegal, period. But the way those calculations are made worries me. Do they start from the presumption that if the movie wasn't uploaded on megaupload, some person would have bought tickets to that film ? Is that the underlying premise?

I mean as a consumer I could either buy the movie, or watch an illegal upload of it. Isn't that a false dichotomy?. I could just as well not watch it, if that illegal upload didn't exist, and as such I would not have costed the company one cent.

Re: Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

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Awarded NZ$60,000 for “loss of dignity and injury to feelings” haha

A police raid is no laughing matter. People die all the time, so it's fortunate nobody got hurt.

Ordinarily for white collar crime, you'd expect a knock on the door and to be handed a summons, not full terrorism mode. You'd also expect your government to follow its due process, again not denying rights in full terrorism mode.

Oligarchy at work.

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