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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: 5, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday March 01 2018, @06:43PM (2 children)
Makes me wonder if there might have been something on Mega's servers that the US government thought was REALLY important to keep from getting out. Somebody uploaded some huge data dump of super classified stuff, like a report on aliens, designs of a working zero point energy unit, proof of a secret world shadow government that actually rules the world, or maybe just videos of orgies at the white house involving various world leaders and hookers.
But whatever it was the US government wanted to prevent it from getting out, but the person who uploaded died before they could get the account and decryption password so they went after the servers to ensure that the data would NEVER get out.
Grazy, yeah. But it does fit what happened, servers being confiscated and never returned, the US DoJ refusing to release even images of the servers to anyone, the complete overkill at just about every step of this incident.
And Kim Dot doesn't know anything about the data, he's just caught up in the whole mess because he ran the outfit. Kind of like how Julian Assange has been on the wrong end of things for pissing off the USA.
I could totally see this as a plot of a "B" spy movie.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday March 01 2018, @09:09PM (1 child)
Uh huh. I would say scary thought, but we all know the high likelihood that the companies above have been compromised already by government. Specifically, the intelligence side of government that won't bust you, because that would affect a valuable channel of information. Box, Dropbox, and Google Anything are already most likely backdoor'd for the government already.
Spider Oak doesn't count because that is a zero knowledge service. I don't see government going after those outfits.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @02:59AM
> Spider Oak doesn't count because that is a zero knowledge service. I don't see government going after those outfits.
Maybe. Unless I am wrong, it seems to at least depend on TLS over HTTP. That is completely broken.