http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/kim-dotcom-to-be-finally-extradited-to-the-us-new-zealand-judge-rules/
KIM DOTCOM IS KILL
>The hoopla started on January 20, 2012, when New Zealand police—acting on the orders of American prosecutors—showed up at the mansion of flamboyant Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, swarming over the property and bringing along two police helicopters. They cut their way through locks and into the home's "panic room," where Dotcom was hiding in apparent fear of a kidnapping or robbery. Authorities seized 18 luxury vehicles and secured NZ$11 million in cash from bank accounts—and they grabbed a whopping 150TB of data from Dotcom's many digital devices.
lol
I'm glad the World Police cooperates with useless countries to promote peace and safety to the world.
>Extradited to America for breaking American copyright laws
>Despite never setting foot in America
Wow, that would be like me being extradited to Saudi Arabia for saying Allah is not real, there are no gods, and Mohammad was a child rapist.
>>52013459
Good, fuck that guy.
megaupload was truly the best there ever was.
i still feel for those who paid for the lifetime membership
Well, at least he's white.
He'll get sent to a comfy white collar prison camp for a few years.
Might even get /fit/ in prison as well.
>>52013610
It wasn't. It was slow and had horrible download limitations if you didn't pay for a premium membership.
The only reason a lot of people used it was because the uploaders got money for it.
>>52013610
Despite having to wait to download (like Rapidshit and many other Direct Download sites), Megaupload at least had one thing going for it -- variety. Fucking everything was on it.
That said, piracy will never die. Even when one of the larger heads falls, more will come to replace it.
>>52013616
>He'll get sent to a comfy white collar prison camp for a few years.
More like 100 years if you see the shit sentences Americans get
>>52013632
nope. maybe you weren't using during it's final days. you could make as many free accounts and those allowed multiple dls at a time.
>>52013648
megaupload also didnt have captcha of any sort.
>>52013459
THEY NEVER CATCH ME ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>52013648
>Fucking everything was on it.
Because that fat fucker paid the uploaders. Which is also what he is accused of and wanted for by the US.
>>52013682
But all services of that kind did and are also currently doing that.
>>52013554
This. How in the fuck is this legal?
>How is this legal?
Uhh, because America has owned the British commonwealth since the end of WW2?
This is the world you chose.
>>52013459
Poor motherfucker
>>52013670
does rapidshare still do those awful cat captchas?
does rapidshare even still exist?
>living in one of the Five Eyes countries
lmao
>>52014451
you don't have to live in them to get fucked by them
I had perfectly legal media uploaded to mega. Does this mean its now property of the US government?
>>52014433
Go to their site.
>american justice system
top kek
>>52013632
That's fucking bullshit.
I distinctly remember Megaupload was the first file sharing service that gave free users unlimited download speed and unlimited concurrent downloads.
I remember going from download 1 file at a time with 36KB/s on Rapidshit to downloading at 1MB/s on Megaupload.
>>52013459
>Not chilling with snowden when he had the chance
He deserved it.
>>52013616
>a few years
>in the USA
He will spend the rest of his life in prison, dude.
>>52013757
Shhh no need to question Hollywood and the corporations goym, its for your safety and security
>muffled oy vey in the distance
>>52014528
No, just megaupload.
Mega is chinese property now
why do kiwis bend over to foreign authoritarian regimes?
>>52013632
Bullshit desu senpai. I was a member of a pirate site that exclusively used Megaupload and it was fantastic.
>>52013757
America is world police
Kim.com will spend the rest of his life in prison.
>>52016275
This post made me cry
what a dumb fucking picture
>>52016262
Pretty much this.
The only reason other countries don't do it is because they don't have muh murican power.
>>52013554
>>52013757
>>52016139
>>52016262
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_agreements
>>52013787
>tfw America pays taxes to the queen
He was living like a rich villain, he's obviously guilty of something. Lock him up. LOCK HIM UP!
>FDR standing
IMMERSION RUINED
all the things going on in the world and we're worried about a fat guy in new zealand.
>>52013554
Well there's a difference, see, because he hosted copyrighted files without the permission of a copyright holder, where as the Glory of Allah and his one true prophet Mohammad shall forever grace this world, ALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA
>>52016545
This.
>>52016661
>Simpsons
Kill yourself, you're a part of the problem.
>>52013554
Man I hate the world. This was not the future I chose
>>52013459
Is Mega still a good place to save my files despite being sold?
>>52016453
Do those agreements say that any copyright dispute is to be resolved in an American court? No?
>>52016748
Do you trust a bunch of shady chink businessmen with your privacy?
>>52016758
Wasn't it supposed to be encrypted by default so not even the owners of the site could open your files?
He can still appeal it; and if he gets New Zealand citizenship before (which he just became eligible for) it gets even more complicated. Dotcom isn't actually a citizen of New Zealand yet, or they'd probably have already told the US to fuck off.
>>52017044
Wouldn't he be a German citizen then?
They can't just extradite him to a completely different nation.
>>52017044
>Dotcom isn't actually a citizen of New Zealand yet, or they'd probably have already told the US to fuck off.
He has to have been there for about 5 years now which is the cutoff point for buy-your-way-in eligibility
>>52017086
>Wouldn't he be a German citizen then?
And Finnish
>>52016789
Yes. And it is open source too
>>52017191
There's no guarantee the code they're running on their servers is the same as the code they released
he's appealing, so he's probably going to have to go through every court in new zealand, one level at a time, before he's actually extradited
>>52013459
USA
WORLD POLICE
USA
USA
USA
>>52016178
I know the Us had a bit of a cry when nz wouldn't allow any US navy ships in their waters at least
>On the day of the raid, American prosecutors unsealed various charges, including criminal charges of copyright infringement, racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering
well shit, he's in a bit more trouble than i thought
we need to make .fucked a TLD so kim can change his name to something more appropriate
YUO ASS AYY
YUO ASS AYY
YUO ASS AYY
YUO ASS AYY
YUO ASS AYY
>>52017374
They intentionally overindicted to make the extradition process easier
>>52016689
But Simpsons is the best anime senpai
>tfw the governments of the west are literally just a bunch of hired thugs for kingpins that will fuck your shit up if you encroach on their territory
>>52013500
Didn't you know we're the cops of the world. Prepare your anuses. USA USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_2x3JWWzvY
I can't believe this extradition meem.
This is literally telling the world that if the US doesn't like anything you're doing anywhere, get ready to get chained and dragged across the world to face charges in a foreign court
Just goes to show how corporations and their interests have international supremacy, even over state governments.
New Zealand is literally a c u c k country that can't even stand up to handle it's own problems
He's going to end up costing both countries more in legal fees than the amount of alleged damages by copyright infringement he has caused.
>>52017902
Goods and services, or freedom? Hushed voices make your choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pzo_dtR80
Want to do something about it. Pick up your keyboard and give it a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIjmvZZ_SQ
>>52018039
this
what a waste of time and money
if the people involved didn't get paid hourly no matter what they do, the case would have been thrown out
>>52013459
>The hoopla started on January 20, 2012, when New Zealand police—acting on the orders of American prosecutors—showed up at the mansion of flamboyant Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, swarming over the property and bringing along two police helicopters.
what a fucking waste of tax payer money
>>52013500
>they grabbed a whopping 150TB of data from Dotcom's many digital devices
MEGA lolz
What do you think was there?
>>52019009
>too lazy to torrent
>set up fileshare website
>people literally give you all the latest releases
it seemed like the perfect plan...
what was there? what wasn't there more like.
>>52019084
Fuck, that's genius.
I've always dreamed about paying someone to do all the mundane browsing for me, instead of spending hours downloading what I need, but that's even better.
>arresting a foreigner for breaking US copyright laws
I never asked for this.
>>52018253
Governments have little incentive to use those resources efficiently so they just let cops play CSI with your money
>>52016119
>America the only place where being bad gets you a rent free house, food, a job and all the anal you want for life
>>52019811
So if some country introduces the death penalty on downloading a song everyone else has to enforce that as well?
>>52019850
If its IDS NOYVJ then yes
>>52017374
>money laundering
Thats just tax evasion nowadays.
>>52019811
So why is NZ applying US law then. This isn't even about copyright infringement it's about extradition. NZ was supposed to be a sort of safe-haven for copyright infringement somewhat. The USA isn't just shitting up the world by destabilizing shitholes and causing massive problems, it has also infilitrated the law of sovereign countries and unions and organizations (e.g. this thread, FIFA (which I suspect is to force the go-ahead on the world cup being held in qatar)).
Fuck the US.
>>52021361
>NZ was supposed to be a sort of safe-haven for copyright infringement somewhat.
What. International copyright law is international copyright law.
The problem is really the other charges. Due to the nature of the online world we have now it is possible to commit crimes in other countries without being in that country. USA is trying to charge him on things that are eligible for extradition, one of those I think is money laundering. Copyright infringement would be charged within the country of arrest.
The reason why they're adding on the other charges is to get him extradited, they'd probably drop them afterward and just go after him for copyright infringement in US courts, which they would likely win, and they use money laundering broadly anyway, something like effectively if you touch money you gain in any way then you have laundered it.
but he was just hosting the data
am confuse..
>>52013459
Fucking KIWIFAGS rolling over and taking it up the ass just like us Aussies did
Bunch of cucks we are
>>52019009
chinese cartoons and horse porn
>>52021743
We have more excuse than you though.
We have no Navy, we have no Air Force. If we say no then there's nothing stopping USA. Nothing that might deter them.
All we have is their respect for our SAS.
>>52021773
>not just paying WETA to create a functioning a real Mordor army
What a waste
>>52021793
But USA has eagles.
>>52021806
They dont have mordor or mad max (staya)
Checkmate yankyfags we outlive the nuclear holocaust
>>52021814
Because your country is so irrelevant, nobody will bother to bomb it.
>>52021847
>wanting to be bombed
Enjoy fallout 4 for real
>>52021814
But they can just fly their (F15) Eagles into Mordor.
>>52019084
>>52021758
Probably some russian cp too, those feks are probably dumb enought to put nekkid pics of their offspring on the internet.
>>52013554
>send missile to other country
>kill 5000 people
>WHAT LAW DID I BREAK
>I WASN'T EVEN IN THAT COUNTRY
>I WAS CHILLING AT HOME THE WHOLE TIME, GOD
>>52019009
/stuff/don't click/cp/cp
how is he so fuggin rich?
>>52021710
he wasn't corporate cuck material like dropbox and drive
>>52022897
He knows how to code and how to run a business.
>>52013554
The worst part is that most people think this is perfectly fine.
>>52023663
The internet is an international place with criminals operating across borders. If you could hide behind borders then nothing could ever be enforced on the internet.
That said, the copyright holders could just sue him in new zealand as that's where he commited the acts for which hes being sued. American civil parties their rights have been infringed and the criminal prosecutors from new zealand might have a criminal case. Not sure why the American government can turn this into a criminal case as they have nothing to do with this.
Obligatory exploding chair gif.
>>52023762
>new zealand as that's where he commited the acts for which hes being sued.
Actually, no. He has been in NZ a relatively short amount of time.
>>52013459
american prison
>MEGA!
