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Why are the site creator's getting arrested for other peoples actions?

Freedom?

That is not right?

Did anyone watch the segment on 60 Minutes about Kim Dotcom?  Hubby thought I should watch it because I did not know that much about him.  It is pretty messed up how they went after him for just providing a service for uploading things.  I never used Megaupload but it seemed like it was a successful web site that provided an important service for people to put up various personal videos. Sure, people may decide to use it for things that it was not intended to be used for but Kim Dotcom was not the one uploading copyrighted things.  Why don't they go after Youtube too then?  They have the same kind of service.   60 Minutes did not even defend Kim either.  I found it highly disturbing that the USA thinks they are doing a "service" to the world by going after Kim too.  Pretty depressing. 

Why was his mom got in trouble all the way in Germany in her home, road blocks all around for mega upload?

Very sad.

Never heard of this guy, but remembers Megaload. I have no idea has was arrested this way. There is something wrong about arresting a techguy with a SWAT team? and roadblocks to take a car from a granny?

So, I read up about this whole thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload

It seems the case hinges on the fact that "they know there is copyright infringing material on their servers and they didn't do anything about it". There are copyright infringing material on Youtube all the time!? and these material get emailed around too, are they going to hit Microsoft/Yahoo/Gmail with a SWAT team?

Yeah, but Youtube is massive business owned by a corporation. Mega was owned by Kim Dotcom and Hollywood had a bee in their bonnet and went out of their way to set an example. I hope they fail miserably and have to pay Kim millions.

Dotcom is very great man :)

Or atleast big...

There is interesting sides of him... Not all of it is positive what I have heard...

Google his collection of mercedes AMG's. Pretty ill.

What you think is negative with him?

They were probably seized by the Feds lol.

You've answered your own question.

Don't forget about who owns Youtube microsoft Yahoo Gmail, and who they make large-huge-  political donations to.

And who they've agreed to share our data with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=N1bDMfRfsrw#t=720

or start at 12 min for kim dotcom.

He is just a an running a site for people to share files. Nothing illegal except the people doing the actions.

and yes, I bet the feds are riding his cars to their homes today  :D

Could you not argue that Silk Road was doing nothing illegal too?

What is Silk Road? I only know about Tor and Those other underground drug sites.

It was/is an underground drug site. One of the biggest. Google it for more info.

By these standards ....

telephone companies are liable for the actions of criminals and drug dealers who use the phones.  And the US Mail is liable for the actions of the Unibomber when they delivered his "mail".

...but there is actually a specific exclusion for the 'common carrier' for the telephone companies being liable for the actions of the users, this has been in law for a long time.  This was extended to include internet service providers, ISPs, and so forth.  But now we see a trend toward reversing that, essentially, for those who don't play along with the demands of the current crop of People Controllers.

Tell that to the Mighty United States of America.

America is full of brainwashed individuals who keep kissing ass. NSA is going to be monitoring the world, yet countries dont do anything about it when they are the victims. The United States will rule the world in some way.

You are just jealous because we have the first Killer Drone Nobel Peace Prize Winner ever....... ;)

Megaupload founder and web tycoon Kim Dotcom is launching registration for his New Zealand political party on Monday. Tickets for his 40th birthday, coinciding with the launch, went in minutes, with more than 15,000 people planning to attend.

Dotcom, born in Germany as Kim Schmitz, told The Associated Press in an interview published Tuesday that he is founding and funding the party, but will himself not stand as a candidate. From Monday a party website and mobile app will be launched, and will begin registering members. By law, New Zealand requires 500 paid-up members to be registered before a party is formed.

While a resident of New Zealand, Dotcom is not able to stand as a candidate for political office as he does not have citizenship.

“The party website with information about our vision & candidates will launch with another BIG event on Jan 20, 2014. Second raid anniversary,” Dotcom announced in September. He followed it up with a tweet posted Tuesday: “We are going to make politics exciting.”

“My political party will activate non-voters, the youth, the Internet electorate,” he added.

My new political party won't be named Mega Party. We are the Internet Party. Here's our logo for the first time.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bd96K8mCYAA9XKN.jpg

Dotcom’s 40th celebration on January 20 – the day before his birthday – initially had 2,000 free invitations available to the general public. However, the run on invites meant that it reached full capacity within a matter of minutes, forcing Dotcom to switch venues after the number registering to attend through the twitter tag #PartyParty broke the 15,000 milestone.

Its new base, in Vector Arena in Auckland, can hold over 20,000. At the show, Dotcom will also be launching his new “Good Times” album.

The thousands-strong party will mark the two-year anniversary of the FBI and New Zealand authorities’ raid on Dotcom’s house. The search saw Dotcom arrested and his assets, including a luxury car collection, seized, with Dotcom himself being accused of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.

The US government has been seeking to get him extradited, with his hearing first delayed until April, and then July. Dotcom’s ongoing legal battles have also seen him suing a New Zealand spy agency for spying.

Dotcom has been deeply and vocally critical of global surveillance practices. “Depending on how well it tickles the fancies of some of the more radical, marginalized, and disillusioned voters and non-voters, the so-called Mega Party could have a huge impact on who forms the next government,” wrote Bryce Edwards, a political commentator and lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand. However, Edwards also stated that the new party is “far from certain to get into Parliament.”

Megaupload was a haven for file-sharers until it was shut down by the US government in 2012. At the point of its closure, it was getting some 50 million users on a daily basis. Since its closure, Dotcom has founded a new file hosting site, called Mega.

Truly a man that deserves alot of respect for his resilience/cajones lol

I think they already do, or at least like to think they do.

What if the result of the outcome of the NSA debacle, and similar issues existing or yet to come, is not the diminishing of the US as a world power and the rise of some other power, but the rise of the little people?

You mean these people:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/04/world/04dwarfs_337-span/04dwarfs_337-span-articleLarge.jpg

Where do you find these pictures!?   :D

Oh it's this amazing site that I found the other day. Not sure if you've heard of it but it's called Google.

I guess I never searched Google for a picture of the "rise of the little people."  ;)

Neither did I; I searched for 'midget kings'. lol jk I just googled 'little people' :D.

Kim Dotcom is a great story and another wake up call.
  
His problem, and what he is fighting for, should scare the #%&@ out of everyone!

Reminds me of some other recent "internet activists" - The Pirate Bay.

Watch AFK - TPB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8) for similarities.

Then, there was Aaron Schwartz.

Does anyone detect a pattern here?

I do.

Kim Dotcom, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, etc. -  countless, nameless others are being targeted.

Found this, summarizes the (r)evolution - granted, from a certain perspective, but still interesting:

Anonymous- The Story of the Hacktivists (Full Documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7tQ1VtLMyk

I just wish they would be more active NOW: NSA, etc, etc, than just LOL with sarah palin's email. They should trust NO government no matter its so called "political color".

Anyway, for those who aren't bothered to watch the video, Anonymous is a "hacker" group whose aim is to promote internet freedom, and attacks government websites when they try to control internet. Like when the FBI shut down megaupload, the US government sites and servers were down for a long time.

"Anonymous" is largely a bunch of basement-dwelling script kiddies ddos-ing websites. Hardly revolutionaries.

Well, if you think of them that way, let's see you prove yourself to be much more than "basement-dwelling script kiddies".

I am Edward Snowden. Anonymous ain't got shit on me.

I am particularly interested in Kim Dotcoms promise to deliver a fully encrypted messaging platform. Skype could face some real competition in the near future.

The dark web is next supposedly. If all those tools work as planned then we are going into the light living the "we do it for your own good" people in their own darkness.

Darkweb is fully encrypted now with new methods that are too advanced to even talk about.

http://baboom.com by Kim Dotcom

You beat me to it. Listening to the album now  ;D

The website is very slick looking. I hope artists will be able to be paid in bitcoins. Looking forward for that remix contest for his album.

mega is a great website and service. the best bit being one of the encryptions is playing pong ... ;D ;D ;D

Kim Dotcom's fortune unfrozen by court


https://i.imgur.com/9Hb9Hk6.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/9rdfbXk.jpg


http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9950822/Kim-Dotcoms-fortune-unfrozen-by-court

Wonder if he'll put any of his cash in coins so they can't be seized again?

My thoughts exactly!   ;D

I would love to see how much his cash could help the price.  Hopefully he gets the cash soon and throws some in.

He already has some coins I think, but throwing a load more cash into the system would be great.

Can't trust him. He made that tweet about Bitcoin debit cards more than a month ago. A few days later, he talked about creating his own coin, some type of shitcoin. So, can we trust him?

Did he? The article I saw it seemed like people had just assumed he wanted to create his own coin, unless he's said otherwise elsewhere.

He had recently hosted a gathering for the New Zealand Internet Party members. There he put forward the suggestion of creating a national crypto-currency for New Zealand. I haven't heard about it after that.

At least his alt coin would have a huge amount of street creds among people not in love with what happened to him. As long as it is open, Kimcoin can't be worse than dogecoin :)

Did he say he wanted to create a crypto or use one? I haven't seen anything concrete regarding it. There was also a Bitcoin ATM at that gathering (not that that means anything but it's cool he has one).

http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-take-down-kim-dotcoms-official-album-from-mega-140903/

im still waiting for him to leak out whatever juicy info he has on the new zealand prime minister.. right before the election.

i really don't know what to think of him. is he a douchebag using "the people's right" for cover, or does he actually believe in the shit he says?