I have heard about the "Diesel Tour" before. It's a little disturbing.
From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
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Re: From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
#12It's a little sad specifically his own government didn't provide him much help. Numerous other issues with the US aside, I've always been reasonably confident that if I'm out of the country, the American embassy will help me. And going after the IT staff is pretty awful. Generally speaking, we're just there to make it work. While I make a point to work jobs and clients I think do good work and are moral entities, the…
"Just following orders" is a bad defense when you have the option to just refuse and find another job.
The terrible part is that Kim Dotcom has been able to avoid jail for the same crime this guy committed just because he has the money to fight.
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#13Crazy how the FBI has become the biatch of the american copyright mafia even to a degree of tromping and violating people's rights in other continents. GO USA!
What exactly was the claim against this software eng? By this article it almost sounds like the FBI (guided by the copyright mafia) fabricated a case against some defenseless software dev just to gain more leverage on dotcom.
Re: From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
#14Crazy how the FBI has become the biatch of the american copyright mafia even to a degree of tromping and violating people's rights in other continents. GO USA! What exactly was the claim against this software eng? By this article it almost sounds like the FBI (guided by the copyright mafia) fabricated a case against some defenseless software dev just to gain more leverage on dotcom.
That's what the FBI does. I'm watching The Sopranos on Amazon Prime. Without the FBI doing this, that would have been a much shorter show. I doubt The Sopranos is reference grade, but I don't doubt that the bones of these plot elements are valid.
Re: From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
#15So this guy is in prison, but Dotcom is free?!
Re: From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
#16Crazy how the FBI has become the biatch of the american copyright mafia even to a degree of tromping and violating people's rights in other continents. GO USA! What exactly was the claim against this software eng? By this article it almost sounds like the FBI (guided by the copyright mafia) fabricated a case against some defenseless software dev just to gain more leverage on dotcom.
Remember when GS got the FBI to arrest and prosecute a programmer who did nothing wrong? The arresting agents couldn't even articulate why they were arresting the programmer.
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#17Clearly our prison system in the US is terrible. Of course most other countries are even worse but you'd think we would be more civilized. It's also embarrassing that the only person they were able to put in jail was a simple programmer.
I don't know if it's available any more but there was a series on The History Channel ( from back when it had, y'know, history on it ) called "The Big House" with Paul Sorvino narrating that covers how this came to be.
I realized a massive high school being built in my (then) home town had an architecture based on prison design. Not only were prisons a political innovation, but they had a lot to do with how architecture developed.
Re: From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
#18Crazy how the FBI has become the biatch of the american copyright mafia even to a degree of tromping and violating people's rights in other continents. GO USA! What exactly was the claim against this software eng? By this article it almost sounds like the FBI (guided by the copyright mafia) fabricated a case against some defenseless software dev just to gain more leverage on dotcom.
Remember when GS got the FBI to arrest and prosecute a programmer who did nothing wrong? The arresting agents couldn't even articulate why they were arresting the programmer.
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#19So this guy was jailed because he coded an advertising platform and a video hosting service.
I know Mega was on a thin shady line, but what has he done wrong to be jailed in USA ?
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#20It's a little sad specifically his own government didn't provide him much help. Numerous other issues with the US aside, I've always been reasonably confident that if I'm out of the country, the American embassy will help me. And going after the IT staff is pretty awful. Generally speaking, we're just there to make it work. While I make a point to work jobs and clients I think do good work and are moral entities, the…
>IT doesn't generally decide what a company does But IT helps the company do what it decided to do (not that I think Megaupload did something bad).
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other
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