"All Kim ever cared about was how to promote himself on Twitter."
In sum, he's a total scumbag. I thought he was a cool guy, but now I think otherwise.
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
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I assume if you are involved in stealing property from folks in the US (I assume many of the owners of the stolen material are American companies), the US has the right to extradite you. Seems reasonable to me.
Sure. Is that reciprocal? Would the US extradite a US citizen from the US to eg France to face prosecution for copyright infringement?
Haha, thanks for the good laugh!
Re: From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
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> Do Dropbox employees need to worry that infringing content is being taken down fast enough, lest the face prosecution? Not as long a Dropbox doesn't offend the wrong people.
Not as long Condoleezza Rice is on the board.
This is why Google is on such good terms with the State Dept, friends in high places will ensure that no matter what happens you will not run into issues of "law".
Re: From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tells his story
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...except when those orders are to build something innocuous. If someone told me to build some filesharing software and give it to them, making me responsible for the content is absurd. Its basically the legal equivalent of holding Dropbox developers responsible for piracy. The only difference is Megaupload was public and blatant enough in English-speaking media (of which the programmer was not a native speaker) for…
What got him in hot water was the fact that Megaupload clearly knew about specific instances of copyright infringement and still went ahead anyway. And this guy knew about it and kept working there helping them do it. > I also had to sign my name to all of the evidence that had already been collected—for example, to the fact that Megaupload ignored complaints from time to time and did not remove illegal content fast…
> What got him in hot water was the fact that Megaupload clearly knew about specific instances of copyright infringement and still went ahead anyway. And this guy knew about it and kept working there helping them do it.
Do we know it was actually illegal in the country he resided?
As far as I'm aware, the reason he had to be brought to the US was he was within the law in his home country.