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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: 3, Interesting) by pTamok on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:34PM (2 children)

    by pTamok (3042) on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:34PM (#645895)

    It could get interesting, as Mr Obama no longer has potential 'Head of State Immunity', unlike Robert Mugabe who has successfully evaded arrest on the grounds of human rights violations several times (See Peter Tatchell's website [petertatchell.net] for details). General Pinochet, as an ex-Head of State was successfully detained [wikipedia.org], as was Slobodan Milošević [wikipedia.org].

    A successfully served subpoena could be embarassing, so there could well be some 'interesting' antics to avoid it.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:53PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:53PM (#645906) Journal

    Armed intervention will be used I suspect. Carried out by secret service under the guise of protection.

     

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @08:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @08:46PM (#645970)

      Keep masturbating furiously over the thought of the Obama being arrested.