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Megaupload started out being presented as a regular copyright enforcement case. However as the facts of the military-style raid surfaced, followed by details of the many serious legal irregularities, it quickly became very peculiar and atypical. Soon, when former president Barack Obama arrives in New Zealand later this month, Kim Dotcom aims to try to find out what he knew about the case through subpoena.
Kim Dotcom is claiming that an associate was able to hire a friend of the Obamas to ask about the Megaupload case. "Mistakes were made. It hasn't gone well. It's a problem. I'll see to it after the election," Barack Obama reportedly said. With Obama due to land in New Zealand next month, Dotcom says he'll have a court subpoena waiting for the former president.
One of the interesting items that might eventually come from the case is what the difference between Megaupload and its competitors was. So far, there have been no raids, big or small, against Box, Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive, Spider Oak, and the others.
Source : Dotcom: Obama Admitted "Mistakes Were Made" in Megaupload Case
See also : past soylentnews posts on Megaupload
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday March 01 2018, @05:03PM (3 children)
Troll? This isn't trolling. This is just a weirdo masturbating onto his keyboard. Either that or it's placed here as a way of anonymously passing coded messages.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @05:27PM (2 children)
While I am amused by your analysis I still believe it is a troll, trying to irritate the "over sensitive ess jay double ooos" so that we'll leave and let this place turn into another hell hole a'la voat / gab. I haven't checked gab, but I did check out voat a few times over the last year and it was inevitably too cringey to keep browsing.
Maybe it is the series of contracts guy just spewing filth cause his ideas just receive mockery here for their naivety. While the person is obviously mentally disturbed to put forth such an amount of nasty shit I do think the motivation is trolling.
Per wikipedia: "In Internet slang, a troll (/troʊl, trɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topic discussion,[3] often for the troll's amusement."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Thursday March 01 2018, @05:42PM (1 child)
Why you guys feeding the trolls?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:01PM
Because pontificating on what makes a looney tick is a bit more interesting than whether Obama said mistakes were made in the Kim Dotcom case. Besides I don't consider the discussion as really feeding the troll except it in the troll's thread. If the person is laughing maniacally at this thread then they probably need the attention more than the article.
I don't like trolls but they don't deserve to die! Feeeed theemmmm :P