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New Zealand PM apologizes to Kim Dotcom (video)

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Re: New Zealand PM apologizes to Kim Dotcom (video)

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So now the PM has apologized, what ramifications does that have for Dotcom, Megaupload and the ongoing legal stuff?

Does Megaupload get all it's servers and data back, immeidately?

Are all the charges against Dotcom and Megaupload dropped?

It is now clear the American authorities broke the law, and Dotcom can pursue them?

Re: New Zealand PM apologizes to Kim Dotcom (video)

#13
post #10

Apologies are nice; now, who is going to jail for what happened?

Excerpt: "Do you take any responsibility for what's taken place, as Prime Minister?" "Well ultimately of course I'm accountable for GCSB and I won't walk away from my responsibilities there, but I would simply say this is an operational matter, it was at a pretty basic level, and it's been the system in place for a very long time. It wasn't overly complex, it didn't come about because we changed something. The day I…

Upfront and honest? He has been caught out lying about key dates when he found out about Dotcom spying, and according to today's paper his revised story is a lie too, as there may be a tape recording of him mentioning something about it considerably earlier. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objec...

Re: New Zealand PM apologizes to Kim Dotcom (video)

#14
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excerpt: "Do you take any responsibility for what's taken place, as Prime Minister?" "Well ultimately of course I'm accountable for GCSB and I won't walk away from my responsibilities there, but I would simply say this is an operational matter, it was at a pretty basic level, and it's been the system in place for a very long time. It wasn't overly complex, it didn't come about because we changed something. The day I…

Upfront and honest? He has been caught out lying about key dates when he found out about Dotcom spying, and according to today's paper his revised story is a lie too, as there may be a tape recording of him mentioning something about it considerably earlier. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objec...

I give him props for ordering the review, saying something might be fishy and then the eventual apology so quickly though.
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