Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand

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Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 4, 2012 @06:24PM from the take-a-left-at-hawaii dept.

First time accepted submitter damagedbits writes "So it turns out that Me.ga is only part of Kim Dotcom's resolution for 2013. Even though he's still facing extradition to the U.S. for alleged piracy, Dotcom has plans to resurrect Pacific Fibre's failed project to construct a fiber optic cable across the Pacific to the U.S. The new line will bring free high-speed broadband to New Zealanders and double the nation's Internet bandwidth, setting Dotcom back about $400m." Some of that funding is based on optimism: "Dotcom plans on getting the majority of his funds by suing Hollywood studios and the US government for their 'unlawful and political destruction of [Megaupload].'"

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This is actually cool... by CRC'99 · 2012-11-04 18:31 · Score: 5, Interesting

... It really seems to be a Robin Hood type thing....
The 'rich' taking the 'richer' to the cleaners to provide broadband to the masses for free...
Lately I can't seem to fault this guy....

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1. Re:This is actually cool... by Tom · 2012-11-04 19:04 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Lately I can't seem to fault this guy....
  His PR manager is doing a great job, isn't he? It's almost as if rich people could pay for a good image. As if there were companies available who troll social media sites, leave comments on newpaper and blog pages and generally improve your public perception. Oh, wait...
  
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2. Re:This is actually cool... by robot5x · 2012-11-04 19:20 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  he's definitely doing it right though - simultaneously stick two fingers up at the Americans, and promise the Kiwis an improvement on their piss-poor internet.
  
  I think he's a dick, but this is a great show.
  
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3. Re:This is actually cool... by icebraining · 2012-11-04 19:21 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Counter-example: Rupert Murdoch is rich too, and even own media companies.
  
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4. Re:This is actually cool... by TheTurtlesMoves · 2012-11-04 20:08 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Not really. I am a NZ'er and I can tell you that the issue in NZ is no one like him at all. Despite the fact that it was an illegal raid or whatever he still just doesn't get any support from the general public. Basically we all know he is a total ass from other fairly public appearances that he has made.
  
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5. Re:This is actually cool... by tbird81 · 2012-11-04 20:30 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  That's not true at all. He has a hell of a lot of support amongst the computer-literate and young.
  We all hate that the major parties sold us down the shitter over the S92a bullshit. Everyone knew from the start the raid was over-the-top (fucking helicopters, that must be a first in a NZ arrest!), and are not surprised that the GCSB didn't know their arse from their elbow.
  The guy has done nothing wrong in our country. He enabled some people to upload things to a website - that's not a crime. And just because some people uploaded copyrighted things (based on unfair enormously long, and bribed-to-get-that-way copyright terms) to his website, does not make him a money launderer!
6. Re:This is actually cool... by tehcyder · 2012-11-04 21:33 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  He has a hell of a lot of support amongst the computer-literate and young.
  Which proves that being computer-literate and young doesn't prevent you from being gullible.
  
  The guy is just another self-entitled arsehole who thinks that he has a right to make money off other people's work. If you have a philosophical objection to copyright, fine, argue about it as much as you like, boycott the organisations that impose it and press for a change in the law.
  
  But while you're making money off the copyright laws by circumventing them with something like megaupload you're just a con artist, hypocrite and leech.
  
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7. Re:This is actually cool... by second_coming · 2012-11-04 21:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ...and is unanimously hated around the world. Such a shame :o
8. Re:This is actually cool... by Rakshasa-sensei · 2012-11-04 22:28 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Well, the issue is that by all accounts he was operating within the law, so who's the gullible ones here?
  Unlike Youtube where copyright infringement was rampant and encouraged by the leaders, MegaUpload always has seemed to follow the DMCA faithfully. Until google gets a helicopter raid you can stick that gullible thing up your ignorant ass.
9. Re:This is actually cool... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-05 02:20 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Suuuure he was operating within "the law". And all those wise guys who owned speakeasies during prohibition? They were just shocked - shocked!, I tells ya - to learn that the barkeeps had been serving alcohol without their knowledge or consent.
  
  Well.. that's the thing. As far as anyone can tell (and unless you can show otherwise), he WAS operating within the law (or, if you prefer, "the law").
  Following your silly analogy, if, during prohibition, there was a specific law that said that your establishment was working within the law as long as you would kick-off any drunk people from your establishment whenever told by the authorities (i.e. the equivalent of the DMCA law, bur for alcohol) and the owner faithfully followed that law, then, by definition, he was operating _within the law_.
  Your analogy totally breaks down, actually, once one sees that, unlike what happens in speakeasies, in the particular case, it's not the owner of the establishment that's supplying the illegal goods (unless you have proof otherwise, besides your witty but shallow remarks).
  But, yes, keep ignoring all that (and YouTube, while you're at it). Let's just pretend copyright infringement never happens anywhere online and, whenever it does, it's obviously due to Dotcom's fault and he's obviously profiting from it. You know... as if Dotcom's "support" is required for piracy to continue thriving.
10. Re:This is actually cool... by Haoie · 2012-11-05 07:33 · Score: 2
  
  Uh, no. I'd rather have him for Prime Minister than whatever clown we've got in office now.
  
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I Like this guy... by zixxt · 2012-11-04 18:32 · Score: 3, Funny

When i first read about him a few years ago he came across has a big douche, but now he has grown on me. I find myself cheering him on.

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1. Re:I Like this guy... by subreality · 2012-11-04 18:41 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  He's still a complete douche, right down to the bottom of his trolling little heart. I'm not exactly a supporter, but I am enjoying the show.
2. Re:I Like this guy... by Tom · 2012-11-04 19:02 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Your first instincts were right. He's just rich enough now to have PR and marketing guys helping him with his image.
  He's an egomaniac career criminal who by pure accident was shot this side of the street and now we think he's one of ours. He isn't. He is the exact kind of people we do not want on our side.
  
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3. Re:I Like this guy... by witherstaff · 2012-11-04 19:59 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  but I am enjoying the show.
  It's all you people enjoying the free shows that got him in trouble in the first place!
4. Re:I Like this guy... by wonkey_monkey · 2012-11-04 21:05 · Score: 2
  
  the propaganda and lies you read about him...MASSIVE CRIMES done by the CIA to get rid of him...group of organized crime that plays protection rackets and giant fraud schemes...generally completely detached from physical reality...would murder for money...constant cocaine abuse
  
  Sorry, you have been brainwashed.
  Also 9/11 was an inside job and you forgot to tell you the guy he was one of the "sheeple."
  
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5. Re:I Like this guy... by subreality · 2012-11-04 21:15 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Actually I formed my opinion well before any of this went down. The guy's personality has been publicly known for most of two decades now.
  His latest antics are much less harmful to society, and I do give him credit for that. I enjoy anyone who's a pain in the system's ass instead of causing real trouble. Larry Flynt is another fun one... but both of them, like cows, are best observed from a distance; the closer you get the more disgusting you realize they really are.
  I'm sure there's plenty of disinformation being handed out as you say, but I'm confident in my independent opinion that he is still a total douche.
6. Re:I Like this guy... by blind+biker · 2012-11-04 23:22 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  He's still a complete douche, right down to the bottom of his trolling little heart.
  I am shocked that this cheap piece of character assassination got modded +4
  If you want to criticize someone, please provide some arguments. Until then, the man did nothing bad. In fact, of the moderately rich people, he is one of the few that arrived to his riches with honest work. You disagree? Fine, provide some fucking arguments instead of just ad hominem insults.
  
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7. Re:I Like this guy... by Teun · 2012-11-05 00:10 · Score: 2
  
  On the beach of Tel-Aviv you can pick up much better bedfellows than in Iraq or especially Iran :)
  
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Best of luck to him. by klingers48 · 2012-11-04 18:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'd say that regardless of your stance on intellectual property, if you dig below the surface then you can see there was some very grubby, nepotistic and borderline criminal politics at work in the obliteration of Megaupload and the persecution Dotcom. Not to mention all the collateral damage to busineses using Megaupload for legitimate backups (even if we do acknowledge that a huge chunk of that data was probably pirated...).

I'm doubtful of how successful any court action will be directly against the US government, but if he's willing to funnel it back into the kind of altruistic endeavour he's proposing, I say power to him. I'm sure that LOTR-notwithstanding, It's more than Hollywood's ever done for New Zealand's economy.
1. Re:Best of luck to him. by Tom · 2012-11-04 18:57 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  I'd say that regardless of your stance on intellectual property, if you dig below the surface then you can see there was some very grubby, nepotistic and borderline criminal politics at work
  borderline? It was outright criminal...
  
  in the obliteration of Megaupload and the persecution Dotcom.
  ...oh, you're just toting the party line.
  Here's a deal: I'll agree with you if you get your head out of your ass and agree that the e-mails obtained during the prosecution also show very clearly that Kim and his gang actually were intentionally breaking the law on a large scale with the sole motivation of money, money, money.
  Or does that not fit the self-made image of the glorious freedom fighter? Sorry, dude. The real heroes don't live in mansions.
  
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2. Re:Best of luck to him. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-04 19:17 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  You're right, but still, if I had to choose, I'd choose an evil douche like him with his evil company over an organized evil body like MAFIAA with its lapdog, the US government, any time, anywhere without so much of a blink of an eye.
3. Re:Best of luck to him. by Kokuyo · 2012-11-04 20:10 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  It's called choosing the lesser of two evils. The Yanks know a thing or two about that ;).
4. Re:Best of luck to him. by TubeSteak · 2012-11-04 20:20 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  in the obliteration of Megaupload and the persecution Dotcom.
  
  Kim and his gang actually were intentionally breaking the law on a large scale with the sole motivation of money, money, money.
  I'm confused.
  Is it not possible that both things were happening at the same time?
  
  Sorry, dude. The real heroes don't live in mansions.
  Agreed. No true Scotsman would live in a mansion.
  
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5. Re:Best of luck to him. by fustakrakich · 2012-11-04 20:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Seems to be all they know. It still leads downhill.
  
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6. Re:Best of luck to him. by tehcyder · 2012-11-04 21:39 · Score: 2
  
  You're right, but still, if I had to choose, I'd choose an evil douche like him with his evil company over an organized evil body like MAFIAA with its lapdog, the US government, any time, anywhere without so much of a blink of an eye.
  Yeah, that's the libertarian argument. Any criminal is better than the government, because the government is evil by definition, and some little guy just trying to earn a few millions is a fucking hero.
  
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7. Re:Best of luck to him. by tehcyder · 2012-11-04 21:42 · Score: 2
  
  Oh no! It's a 3-digit UID Slashdotter who hates money! Fucking typical.
  Money ain't evil, it paid for your computer.
  Dotcom did nothing wrong, except piss off Hollywood.
  There is a difference, you utter twat, between differentiating criminal from non-criminal economic activities, and hating money.
  
  You are perilously close to parroting the extreme right wing/libertarian lie that any business is good by definition, because all that matters is economics.
  
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Three days from now, a headline on Slashdot... by GrpA · 2012-11-04 18:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Next up, Kim Dotcoms create the New Zealand based MEGAparty, waiting for the day that people vote him Prime Minister of New Zealand - with his election platform based on Free MEGAbroadband for all, for FREE!
But it's ten-times better for those who register their vote for him with the MEGApartyManager...
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Re:How does he afford $400 million? by Pathogen+David · 2012-11-04 18:46 · Score: 5, Informative

RTFA:

"Dotcom plans on getting the majority of his funds by suing Hollywood studios and the US government for their 'unlawful and political destruction of [Megaupload].'"
please by Tom · 2012-11-04 18:53 · Score: 2

Oh, please. He's an attention whore and trying to stay in the news. /. willfully plays along. Will it be reported if I make a New Year's resolution, too?
There's probably half a billion people with half a billion business ideas on the planet right now. Why is Kim Criminals' being reported? Oh yes, because he broke a couple laws that we don't like.
How about you support the real heroes today? The ones like the EFF, or in Europe EDRI, who are fighting this fight where it can actually be won - the legal and politics level - and have been doing so for years?

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1. Re:please by Rakshasa-sensei · 2012-11-04 19:07 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Real heros?
  How about a guy that got raided by Delta-force with assault rifles and helicopters, a billion dollar business destroyed with no due process, and illegal spying that is pretty close to getting a prime minister redhanded in illegalities?
  What has gone down would be enough to produce a pretty damn good movie and you're questioning if he's been through enough to qualify for some support? Are you perhaps a sore dick mad at the world cause someone else has done cool stuff and you never got out of your mom's basement.
2. Re:please by ravenlord_hun · 2012-11-04 19:15 · Score: 2
  
  Maybe because, frankly, they're advancing pretty much none whatsoever? The only time the big music/movie industry was forced to back down was with SOPA, and that had pretty little to do with anyone of those and much more with the public outrage. And even that wasn't a real victory anyway, only a postpone at best. In the meantime, we're all enjoying the more and more stringent copyright laws and extensions of trademarks/copyright time periods (with no end in sight).
  
  So frankly, I don't see those real heroes being very succesful either, to be honest. Might as well cheer for the guy who's story starts to look like an episode from a bad sitcom....
3. Re:please by icebraining · 2012-11-04 19:27 · Score: 2
  
  Yes, what /. clearly lacks is stories about the EFF.
  
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4. Re:please by Serious+Callers+Only · 2012-11-04 20:44 · Score: 2
  
  The billion dollar business you refer to was based on dealing in stolen information, but somehow you neglected to mention that. He was previously convicted in Germany for insider trading and embezzlement, and in hong kong for illegal share dealing. He then bought his citizenship in New Zealand. Classy.
  Kim.com is a huckster who moves from country to country as he exhausts their supply of goodwill o r is convicted of fraud, and you've fallen for his cheap demagogy. Congratulations.
5. Re:please by Opportunist · 2012-11-04 22:19 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  His history doesn't make it illegal for him to start a legal business. His history only makes it kinda statistically unlikely that he will...
  
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he's got my vote. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-04 18:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

Put me on the jury and i'll award him billions.
What the US and NZ goverment did to him was wrong, illegal, and COMPLETE BULLSHIT!
You can't be the good guys pulling shit like that over some fucking media... not something serious... movies and music... what. the... fuck!
So i'll root for the 'criminal' here. Because all in all he's far less of a scumbag than any of the politicians or law enforcement agents involved in this clusterfuck megaupload case.
See america... this is how far we have fallen.. i'd rather support a "criminal" than law enforcement thugs or politicians.
USA! We are the worlds biggest hypocrites! Respect is earned and the USA deserves damm little anymore.
And if i had my way i'd see ALL of the politicians and pigs involved in this case thrown in jail for a decade.
1. Re:he's got my vote. by tehcyder · 2012-11-04 21:46 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Put me on the jury and i'll award him billions.
  You have to be over 18 and of sound mind to serve on a jury where I come from.
  
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Re:This is actually dead end... by XaXXon · 2012-11-04 19:04 · Score: 2

likely he''ll do it from NZ.. chances are probably a little better there?
More information Hollywood and government Roles by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2012-11-04 19:10 · Score: 3

I believe that a lawsuit against Hollywood and the US government is hopeless. They both own too many judges. However, I hope that some investigation into the matter would bring more light on the US government's and Hollywood's roles in the matter. This whole thing looks like Hollywood just convinced the US government to destroy the Dubious Dotcom, by using whatever Dubious Means possible. It's like Hollywood ordered a drone strike in New Zealand, and the US military leadership had no say in the matter.
Some Hollywood and government folks are a wee bit too cozy together, for my comfort.

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1. Re:More information Hollywood and government Roles by girlinatrainingbra · 2012-11-04 20:37 · Score: 2
  
  Yeah, but how can you get information about the communique(accent)s and diplomatic cables that passed back-and-forth involving the governmental entities now that the slash-and-burn tactics used on wikileaks has destroyed any of the good reputation / goodwill that a site like wikileaks had? Where can you get information about the rogue partnership that turns copyright infringement (a civil matter) into criminal matters that force extradition without valid criminal complaints (even if there ultimately could have been a valid criminal prosecution, the ends do not justify the means).
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  Actually, the US military leadership probably did have a say: they said "How high?" when asked to jump. ;>)
Re:This is actually dead end... by Rakshasa-sensei · 2012-11-04 19:13 · Score: 2

Funny thing is that NZ 'forgot' to demand indemnification from the US in case the raid was illegal or the charges bullshit, meaning that NZ might very well be on the hook from (almost guaranteed) compensation for the raid itself for at least quite a few million dollars and possibly, but not entirely certain, for the billion dollars estimated to have been the value of MegaUpload.
He's going to try to sue the studios? Good luck! by Chas · 2012-11-04 19:47 · Score: 3, Insightful

Basically the studios have enough collective cash to put him in the poorhouse before he ever sees a dime from them.

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Re:How does he afford $400 million? by Kokuyo · 2012-11-04 20:06 · Score: 4, Informative

Dude, seriously, you didn't even need to RTFA... the summary would have been more than adequate to answer your question...
Re:How does he afford $400 million? by Robert+Zenz · 2012-11-04 20:14 · Score: 4, Funny

RTFS:
FTFY
Free? Nonsense by Lincolnshire+Poacher · 2012-11-04 20:55 · Score: 4, Insightful

I could buy a bus today and offer people free commuting to work, but that's not going to last much beyond the point where I have to refill the fuel tank for the first time...
He is not so naive to think that he can just hook a fibre link up to an end-point in the CONUS and give everyone in NZ free data transfer.
1. Maintenance costs of the fibre link.
2. Transit costs to non-peering partners
3. Transit costs to "rest of World", you may have heard of it
4. End-mile connectivity for the NZ customers
All these have immense ongoing costs. Not sure how Mr Dotcom's traditional advertise-and-nag funding model will help there.
Re:re the kind of altruistic endeavour he's propos by Gaygirlie · 2012-11-04 21:10 · Score: 2

I wouldn't call Dotcom's plan altruistic, on that I agree with you, but his plan is clearly much less "evil" than the scenario you proposed. The plan is simple: he wants more bandwidth for his new Mega-solution, and he wants to bitch-slap back the U.S. government and all the related parties while doing so. Handing out free bandwidth to all the Joe Blows of NZ is just a means of increasing the profitability of his new venture via indirect marketing effect while also improving his own, personal reputation in their eyes. So yes, there is an ulterior motive, but luckily there are only benefits to be reaped by the common folk on this plan.
Re:Free? Nonsense by hairyfish · 2012-11-04 21:32 · Score: 3, Interesting

He is not so naive to think...
The guy might be of questionable intent, but he isn't stupid. Without having much knowledge of the subject matter, at a wild guess I'd say he plans to cover the costs by serving all me.ga data from NZ to the rest of the world, which effectively makes all peering arrangements hugely profitable since most traffic is outbound. In any case I'm sure he knows more about this than you or I, so there must be a workable business model there somewhere.
Re:He's going to try to sue the studios? Good luck by Opportunist · 2012-11-04 22:12 · Score: 2

Whoever loses.
We win.

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He knows he'll never have to back this up by nut · 2012-11-04 22:29 · Score: 3, Interesting

The original Pacific Fibre project failed technically because of lack of funding, but just as much from international politicking. International infrastructure (intrastructure?) attracts these sorts of issues it would seem. The US didn't want China funding it and really didn't want them providing technology.
And of course theres's already speculation the US would take the same attitude to Kim Dotcom's involvement given they are trying to prosecute him for teh internet crimez.
A cynic might see this as a cynical PR move on his part. He offers The People of NZ goodies and the US government takes them away. He gets to look like the good guy again and it ultimately costs him nothing.

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Re:This is actually dead end... by Opportunist · 2012-11-04 22:30 · Score: 3, Insightful

Someone suing the federal government should NEVER make you happy. Where do you think the money to defend them and, if they lose, to cough up the dough comes from?
Essentially, he's suing YOU.

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For those that don't know by Sycraft-fu · 2012-11-04 23:07 · Score: 2

He's pulled the kind of shit that people love to hate on varies wall street baddies for, just on a somewhat smaller scale. In 2001 he bought a bunch of stock for a bankrupt company, and said he'd invest 50 million Euro in it. the stock jumped, and he cashed out making a profit, leaving others to hold the bag.
In 2003 he set up a set of shell companies and pretended to have "an artificial intelligence-driven hedge fund delivering an annual return of at least 25%." It was all bullshit of course and the Hong Kong SFC shut him down.
This guy is not some shining example of human goodness, being railroaded by the US government. He's a sleaze who will screw over others to get what he wants.
Now, none of that excuses the US government from acting like jackasses, but let's not pretend like Kim is a good guy. He's not, and I personally think the US government's allegations that he at the very least was turning a deliberate blind eye to copyright infringement on Megaupload. Nobody (except the jackasses in Hollywood) would expect something to be 100% perfect, but Megaupload had many problems, and had an interesting little linking system whereby a DMCA request often resulted in a link going away, not the actual file being taken down.
Regardless, this is the case of the US government acting like thugs to a jerk, not to a great guy. You should be mad at the US for acting as it has, but you shouldn't support Kim as some sort of great person.
Probably not by maroberts · 2012-11-04 23:10 · Score: 3, Interesting

Actually giving the apology probably means the government has effectively admitted that it is liable for any damages Kim Dotcom tries to claim

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Re:Free? Nonsense by xtal · 2012-11-04 23:47 · Score: 4, Informative

Transit costs are marginal.
Once the fiber is in place, operational expenses on a link per bit are basically zero. You'd have to get it connected to a peering hub of course, but on the scale he's talking about, it's not a big deal.
Bandwidth is (almost) free. Capital build is not. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Re:This is actually dead end... by drinkypoo · 2012-11-05 00:20 · Score: 3, Insightful

Someone suing the federal government should NEVER make you happy
I'm happy if the system collapses faster, so we can get Another System Started. I don't believe the system can be fixed by working within the system.

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Re:How does he afford $400 million? by Samantha+Wright · 2012-11-05 03:04 · Score: 2

What is this world coming to, with people who RTFA but not RTFS? It's a disruption of the natural order!

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Re:Sounds Like a Dr. Evil Formula for Vengence by pantaril · 2012-11-05 19:35 · Score: 2

If you base a business on breaking the law, it has zero future earning potential, as Kim Dotfuck is now finding out.

It's sad, that providing service for sharing information is considered criminal by some.
Let's hope his me.ga follow up will be successful and will finaly provide simple and safe way to share your data with anyone on the internet without the fear of overzealous automatic guard robots taking it down like on youtube.