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Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by rustcleaner »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #360
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #218

The US seems to have this knack of sliding itself into this narrow gap between individuals they're idealistically pursuing and something worse. "If I could just slip in there, ooh, that's tight, yes, thank you, aah comfy, this feels like where I belong". In their desperate attempt to not lose a fight that's been going on for, what, 10 years? 15 years? They're increasingly looking like a child that cannot move on from…

Source for the final claim? Is this still the case? Shit Man I distributed a dataset via megaupload for a paper awhile ago. Am I now a target of the glowies?

>Am I now a target of the glowies?

Ready your proximity Geiger counters, they're already on their way (bellies full)!

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by rustcleaner »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #766
19h wrote: post #544

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As someone working in comint I can assure you that there's nothing special about MEGA compared to others in terms of flagging.

That's what someone in comint would say ;) Does that mean usage of all file lockers are equally flagged as suspicious? My memory gets a bit patchy here, but I'm pretty sure the detective said something along the lines of "MEGA is only ever used for ". Which struck me as blatantly false and indicative of either an agenda or incompetence. And I tend to subscribe to Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which i…

Hearsay, but I hear (and say) they basically got netflow and hell many ISPs are selling it and at least one firm exists re-correlating it back to users. Now mix networks are going to need to start being set to X GB/day and then uniformly emit traffic regardless if legit or padding. Also say goodbye to low latency.

I think Hyphanet or IPFS or the like with fixed and padded bandwidth links will be the next step in privacy. Again, there are consumer ISPs selling netflow data!

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by qzx_pierri »

sam345 wrote: post #798
oceanplexian wrote: post #732

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> Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? The problem is that government doesn’t have a line, that line is defined by the resistance it faces. Today it might be people sharing MP3s, tomorrow they will come after you for hosting a parody of mickey mouse. 10 years from now they’ll be busting down doors for sharing illegal memes (Seems to already be the ca…

Mp3s were yesterday literally long time ago. Parody is always legal. And Mickey mouse by the way is way past copyright. Don't you know at least the original.

>Mp3s were yesterday literally long time ago

Since when? Some people keep local copies of their media. Censorship and arbitrary license disputes can have streaming content snatched away at any moment.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by Loughla »

xp84 wrote: post #612
billy99k wrote: post #294

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A decade ago, I had a successful book business online, which included used college textbooks. I had IP lawyers (the same that represented the music and movie industries) send me threatening cease and desist letters on at least 2 occasions accusing me of selling counterfeit books. At that point, I had gotten really good at spotting counterfeits, so I really doubt we were selling any counterfeits, especially when they…

Wow. And I'm assuming the publishers are now sprinting into the arms of rented, time-limited e-textbooks with DRM, and either eliminating or discouraging the sales of physical books that they can't fully kill resale of. My wife asked me last week to help her get a textbook in a format that could be viewed on a reMarkable tablet, which can read PDFs but won't work with arbitrary DRM schemes. I checked my options and f…

Colleges and universities started moving towards the book fee instead of buying books years ago. Many institutions already do the folding book costs into tuition.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by wellthisisgreat »

ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #543
wellthisisgreat wrote: post #507

The craziest thing about Kim is that he held the FIRST PLACE in competitive Call of Duty at some point while running the company.

I always thought that was impressive, and he was a good player but I remember him admitting st some point that he was paying people to play on his account which is what kept it at no. 1.

Hmm, still unless the ratio of them VS him playing was close to 50% that’s quite incredible given how massive the game was already and how demanding it is to be competitive, skills-wise but also just time-commitment-wise. I imagine to stay in top-10 requires no less than 4-6 hours of daily win-heavy gaming.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by ranger_danger »

oceanplexian wrote: post #732
preaching5271 wrote: post #24

I appreciate Kim Dotcom for running MegaUpload and later Mega, in a time when the internet was younger and wilder. Also for his pirate spirit and "stick it to the man" attitude. But everything has a limit, specifically his resistance against the law, even if he hid it behind virtues. I think it's clear for everybody that one cannot get away with this kind of stuff, once governments get involved. Isn't it wiser to sto…

> Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? The problem is that government doesn’t have a line, that line is defined by the resistance it faces. Today it might be people sharing MP3s, tomorrow they will come after you for hosting a parody of mickey mouse. 10 years from now they’ll be busting down doors for sharing illegal memes (Seems to already be the ca…

> Sitting by passively and praying

Curious what you have done instead?

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by ranger_danger »

throwup238 wrote: post #493
gliiics wrote: post #483

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It's not always black and white; let's be honest, yes, Kim Dotcom was probably more about piracy than freedom of whatever simply because that's where his money was. But: > Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general?

> Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general? Comparing Kim Dotcom to Snowden or even Assange feels gross. He was a commercial opportunist, not a real activist or whistleblower.

I don't think they were actually comparing Kim to anything else besides using his "resistance to the law" approach in a general sense to ask if "Isn't it wiser to stop at some point" should also apply to whistleblowers.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by throw10920 »

throwup238 wrote: post #493
gliiics wrote: post #483

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It's not always black and white; let's be honest, yes, Kim Dotcom was probably more about piracy than freedom of whatever simply because that's where his money was. But: > Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general?

> Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general? Comparing Kim Dotcom to Snowden or even Assange feels gross. He was a commercial opportunist, not a real activist or whistleblower.

> Comparing Kim Dotcom to Snowden or even Assange feels gross. He was a commercial opportunist, not a real activist or whistleblower.

Publicly available information supports the fact that Snowden was also an opportunist - the vast majority of the material he leaked was unrelated to domestic surveillance, which was his stated purpose for leaking.

Numbers don't lie.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by andyroid »

toolz wrote: post #675
scotty79 wrote: post #644

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> > Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise? > Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general? Or maybe even more generally to people like Jobs, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Buffet? Because maybe at some point enough should be enough?

I find this mentality is always directed at rich people, but never applied consistently in anyone's life, so I have a hard time taking this opinion seriously. Hopefully, you can convince me otherwise, but I've never heard anyone suggest the best sports teams should stop competing when they've won enough, or that the best inventors should stop, or the best artists, and so on. Money isn't zero sum. We're constantly cre…

> never heard anyone suggest the best sports teams should stop competing when they've won enough, or that the best inventors should stop, or the best artists

While they want you to believe that, there’s no correlation between being rich and being best, or even good, at anything. You’re not the best athlete because your mom and dad were the best athletes. But if your parents were wealthy, you’re wealthy.

If they want standards to be applied ”consistently”, great. They can start by paying their taxes.

Re: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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Post by vasco »

sushisource wrote: post #738
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #476

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> people make their situation worse I'd still be more likely to say the officer is making their situation worse. Take away the false dichotomy of loud and obnoxious vs calm and compliant and consider someone who doesn't answer irrelevant questions and is waiting for the officer to do their job (calm and not compliant). That person might have their situation worsened by the officer who thinks the person they're talkin…

This kind of exactly misses the point the comment you're replying to is making. The point isn't that just complying and handing over your info is the ideal goal. The point is that, pragmatically speaking, it's a lot easier to just do that and move on with your life than making a big scene about standing up for your ideals - because A) You're not going to change shit in that situation anyway and B) It's just going to…

Most of those aren't defending any ideals, they are making content to put ads around at the expense of tax money in the form of wasted police activity to engage with them.
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