Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero
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#2Kim Dotcom for the rest of us.
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#3To me, he went from being a "victim that is also a douchebag" when he seems to be doomed to "antihero" as soon he's started winning.
That being said, I don't have any problem with the services that megaupload is providing even if it tremendously anger copyright holders.
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#4Given his past and the megaupload business model, you have to fuck up pretty badly to turn Kim into this much of a hero.
If Hollywood had chased a civil case against him, they would have almost certainly won it and shut down his business, which would have then paved the way for them to pursue a criminal investigation (although I am far from convinced that he has done anything explicitly illegal as opposed to merely unlawful).
This way round it looks as though they could lose badly on all counts and make themselves look like malicious and incompetent fools in the process while simultaneously souring US relationships with their political allies.
Perhaps they are just malicious and incompetent fools however. It would certainly seem to be the simplest explanation for the current situation.
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#5This article fails to mention that the FBI has illegally copied and extradited out of NZ jurisdiction the vast amount of data gained in the illegal raid on his home.
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#6Given his past and the megaupload business model, you have to fuck up pretty badly to turn Kim into this much of a hero. If Hollywood had chased a civil case against him, they would have almost certainly won it and shut down his business, which would have then paved the way for them to pursue a criminal investigation (although I am far from convinced that he has done anything explicitly illegal as opposed to merely u…
Hollywood should do what Hollywood does best. I'm still waiting for the movie "based on a true story".
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#7Given his past and the megaupload business model, you have to fuck up pretty badly to turn Kim into this much of a hero. If Hollywood had chased a civil case against him, they would have almost certainly won it and shut down his business, which would have then paved the way for them to pursue a criminal investigation (although I am far from convinced that he has done anything explicitly illegal as opposed to merely u…
Hollywood should do what Hollywood does best. I'm still waiting for the movie "based on a true story".
Is that the version where Kim is a muslim cleric who is trying to destroy America from a secret volcano in Iceland?
Re: Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero
#8Given his past and the megaupload business model, you have to fuck up pretty badly to turn Kim into this much of a hero. If Hollywood had chased a civil case against him, they would have almost certainly won it and shut down his business, which would have then paved the way for them to pursue a criminal investigation (although I am far from convinced that he has done anything explicitly illegal as opposed to merely u…
What he does is probably illegal, according to copyright laws, but is it that immoral?
The problem to me is the amount of physical violence he endured, compared to the amount of physical violence he caused.
It's as if the police would beat down someone who didn't tip a street performer.
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#9Given his past and the megaupload business model, you have to fuck up pretty badly to turn Kim into this much of a hero. If Hollywood had chased a civil case against him, they would have almost certainly won it and shut down his business, which would have then paved the way for them to pursue a criminal investigation (although I am far from convinced that he has done anything explicitly illegal as opposed to merely u…
I'm a pretty savvy internet user, and I'll confess to having used Mega for the odd video when nothing else was working, but I've never heard much about Kim before this case. Now he's a folk hero. Considering the weakness of Mega's position, this case couldn't have gone much worse for the copyright industry.
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#10He's a hero because he let people warez and they lost their favorite source for warez when his system was shut down.
Everything else -- the FBI fuckups, the legitimate users losing data, and so on -- is a secondary justification for supporting a warez site. Those issues can be opposed on their own without making the warezer-in-chief into a hero.