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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: 3, Troll) by frojack on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:14PM (3 children)
Look, it was Obama. When the dust is settled the Obama administrations will go down as some of the most corrupt presidencies in history, weaponizing entire branches of government on a scale that embarrasses even his supporters. (yeah, I can hear the troll mods arriving in 3, 2, 1).
Dotcom should have just contributed to the Obama campaign, and this all would have gone away. That's what all those other companies did.
I'm guessing its too late for Dotcom to get any help from his government. Too much embarrassment about their involvement. They were the ones conducting armed assaults on server farms, on the word of the US government. An honest government, if lied to that badly, would have an arrest warrant waiting for Obama. I doubt Dotcom's minions get close enough to server that subpoena.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:22PM (1 child)
I don't think you're gonna get downmodded for that one, just shows your limited understanding of your peers. There was no amount of contributions that could save Dotcom from the wrath of the dreaded American Associations!
You want to throw Obama in jail? I could probably get behind that, but we should go in order and lock up a dozen presidents before him along with Mush, Weney, Killfinger, Rumblefeldstein, and god knows how many others. Oh, and half the financial institution CEOs.
I think the world is finally waking up thanks to the internet. The average person now has a much better understanding of how they're being screwed, and how things don't actually HAVE to be that way.
But here I am hoping for reason from Frojack. We should be fighting together not against one another, but you're a conservative that operates from fear; exemplified by your predictions of downmods. Not everything you say comes from lying propaganda, there are some truths occasionally.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Thursday March 01 2018, @09:50PM
"I think the world is finally waking up thanks to the internet. The average person now has a much better understanding of how they're being screwed"
I half agree. The world is waking up thanks to the internet, but I'm not sure they are more well informed than they were before.
For example, If some idiot is sitting there on the beach snoozing, and I come and tell them Trump and Clinton formed an alliance to dissolve puppies in radioactive waste they might be awake and pissed and ready to protest (or at least retweet their support for someone else protesting; while they stay at the beach sipping their mojito...) but they aren't any more well informed than they were before.
The internet is so full of nonsense and propaganda and so much of it is designed around putting people into echo chambers they already agree with... that I'm not sure the average person is more informed.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday March 01 2018, @07:00PM
Really? I mean, he has so much competition for the "most corrupt": Warren Harding, Bill Clinton, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant, George W Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, the current guy, John F Kennedy? I could keep going, the point is corruption has been part of the territory for a long time. Even guys with an anti-corruption reputation like Teddy Roosevelt designed their foreign policy around pleasing rich people.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.