Megaupload.com gone

[Patrick Webster]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indictment-charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.xml

Yikes.

[Philip Jay]

"... the site's founder Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz..."

*amused*

On 20 January 2012 10:09, Patrick Webster <pat...@aushack.com> wrote:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indictment-charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.xml

Yikes.

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[brendan]

heh i always wondered what happened to kimble. 

this news has hit the rap/music sites as well because Swizz Beatz? was getting mates to do promo's for the site. 

[Toby Wintermute]

Seems kinda fucked that they didn't get to defend themselves -- they
only found out after they were found guilty and then arrested, I
think.
WTF?

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[brendan]

kimble's cars are being impounded in this album.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliottkember/

some of the numberplates are amusing. for example

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliottkember/6729503853/in/photostream/lightbox/

[Patrick Webster]

Must have been easy to get those number plates considering the NZ
population is 1 :P

Heh next time he should tell them to buy their own fucking fireworks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mMY4QjefE

This is also amusing (from 0:30) .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ltcCF_cAQ

Nice to see him hard at work :)

-Patrick

[Timothy Glover]

Oh the humanity, is he down to 5 luxury cars? How can anybody live with so little! :P

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Hmm according to the article they were spying on the companies private emails..  then cherry picking the least favourable looking ones for the judge. Too bad legislators are not as eager to update the illegal wiretap laws as they are the "all your IP are belong to us" laws.

Anyone hear the John Titor legend (supposedly a hoax)  but man, that wireless mesh networking stuff he said replaced the internet is looking really good right about now (non central publicly controlled, peer to peer and geometrically expanding internet style wifi network)

I suppose now they will start trying to fine mining companies for mining the copper and silica used to make the cables that connect the computers to transfer the copyrighted material, all the way up the chain to the PC factories manufacturing the electronics. mmm quintuplet dipping IP fines, lawyers will be creaming their pants in anticipation.

 Are judges getting dumber, or are they just finding juries with the IQ of a flea?

[Timothy Glover]

 Are judges getting dumber, or are they just finding juries with the IQ of a flea?

 

 

I would say it is financially in their interest.... perks of the job so to speak.

 

 

[Cee Gee]

RE: judges / juries - neither. It's whatever sounds most-convincing.

Coming from an IT background, you can give the analogies of bank robbers using getaway cars, so the banks sue the car manufactures, which makes sense and all these lawsuits - based on the same principle - should be thrown out.

However for people who are non-IT, they have an entirely different view - Megaupload provided hosting for movies/tv shows and profited from it. That's why the MAFIAA companies keep suing and constantly win (in court or settlement) - and they will continue to do so as juries, judges, politicians are not IT-savvy (politicians are also getting 'donations', but that's a different matter).

-Sean

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Ha, except a more accurate analogy would be the plastic bags
they stuffed the dollar notes into. The car is just a
"police circumvention device"

Man this crap is just frustrating. Its the coca cola
advertising scam case all over.
(coca cola were sued for IP violation by an advertising
company, so they forced the case to be heard by a judge whom
coca cola had "paid" the "bench fee" that gave the judge his
job. Naturally he ruled in favour of CocaCola even tho it
was a cut and dry case that should have been awarded to the
advertising company)

Legal/Gov system by default in USA is currupt (as a judge
you have to pay a county a "bribe" (or they call it raising
funds for the bench appointment or similar)) - bit like
having to raise funds to run for gov office, only more bribe
like.

Someone needs to invent a way to raise the dead, get their
founding fathers who are rolling in their graves as we
speak, with all their rights to free speech and bearing arms
still raw, and kick the di*ks in the white house and
pentagon out, and put together a new constitution that
actually makes sense. That and add a line about making it
a capital offence to write laws only a lawyer could understand.

Yay me, if I was in the USA, i think i just broke several
homeland security laws with my above paragraph.
*gets off his soap box*

..what free speech