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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, 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.