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posted by janrinok on Thursday March 01 2018, @03:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the tell-me-more,-tell-me-more dept.

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


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by sjames on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:13PM (4 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:13PM (#645881) Journal

    It doesn't matter if what he did SHOULD be illegal, it matters if it WAS illegal. I note that there has been no prosecution. If "the authorities" thought it SHOULD be illegal, the correct action is to pass a law, not tear the business apart and then just sit on it.

    At this point, they should be selling their shiny badges to the scrap dealer to pay for the damages to Dotcom AND the many injured 3rd parties who are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

    That includes paying for all those colo servers that the completely innocent colo companies could neither rent out or get rid of for all that time.

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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday March 01 2018, @07:41PM (3 children)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Thursday March 01 2018, @07:41PM (#645934)

    While I am on Kim Dotcom's side in this... The reason why there has been no prosecution is that so far, Kim Dotcom has not been extradited despite continuing attempts.

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    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday March 01 2018, @08:58PM

      by sjames (2882) on Thursday March 01 2018, @08:58PM (#645979) Journal

      But, of course, that is because the U.S. cannot come up with enough evidence to even convince the NZ courts that a trial is warranted. They've had YEARS now. If not for extra-legal coercion and perjury, they wouldn't have been able to carry out the raid at all.

    • (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday March 01 2018, @09:28PM

      by dry (223) on Thursday March 01 2018, @09:28PM (#646008) Journal

      Extradition treaties usually have clauses where the crime and punishment has to be roughly equal in both jurisdictions.
      Something like murder is usually pretty simple though even then a country might insist on roughly equal punishment such as how Canada won't extradite a murderer to America without a promise of no death penalty.
      In this case, it sounds like the crimes that Kim is accused of aren't particularity serious crimes in New Zealand compared to the USA, so no extradition.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @08:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @08:50AM (#646288)

      If you can't extradite someone, you take them to court in their country of residence.

      Except of course in the case where the reason you can't extradite them is that no law was broken in their country of residence, in which case the police raiding the premises is a gross violation of everything from human rights to laws governing what the police is allowed to do - outside of dictatorships like Syria and North Korea, of course.