This is my surprised face. Other western countries do what is asked of them when the US comes calling.
The US government is the last true sovereign.
RIAA is the last true sovereign.
New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
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Re: New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
#22Our government has been at the beck and call of the White House ever since they came to power. Key is financier, a snake.
Re: New Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
#23The real question: is Dotcom innocent of his alleged crimes? The real story is that if Dotcom was facilitating piracy. The technicality of if he was wire tapped illegally or not is important in theory, but it comes down to this: Dotcom would not be in trouble if he hadn't broken the law. If he was innocent, then this would be a big story. This is similar to someone caught in video robbing a store but beating the char…
> This is similar to someone caught in video robbing a store but beating the charge because of a technicality It is more like someone being _accused_ of robbing a video store and then it turned out the only evidence against them was acquired when the police broke into his home to steal his dairy.
And to add to that. Broke into his home to steal his diary without noticing that they were outside of their jurisdiction.
When they mentioned this oversight to the Acting Prime Minister, he forgot to pass it on to the Prime Minister (who may have been somewhat distracted fending off attacks on another minister who broke the law accepting campaign funds from the guy who broke into the video store).