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FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom
avxo writes "According to an article on the New Zealand Herald, Kim Dotcom says his team has evidence showing that the Department of Homeland Security served a search warrant on Megaupload in 2010, forcing it to preserve pirated movies. According to Mr. Dotcom, those preserved movies are the center of the latest legal battle. 'When the FBI applied to seize the Megaupload site in 2012, it said the company had failed to delete pirated content and cited the earlier search warrant against the continued existence of 36 of the same 39 files.' He added: '[t]he FBI used the fact the files were still in the account of the ... user to get the warrant to seize our own domains. This is outrageous.'"
whoops. I got Dotcom mixed up with, uh, Julian Assange (who I believe is an AU citizen, yes?). I'll just go back to nursing this booze now.
If everyone did this, the game would change.
Here is the formula for an average, per-citizen, rate of consumption of entertainment, in movies per year, as a function of geek rage:
cons(rage) := 0.999*10 + 0.001*(1/rage)
What is the limit of this function with rage going to infinity?
OVER 9000!
You failed to realize rage is an irrational number roughly equivalent to 0.0001111111111 (repeating).
The limit of your function expressed in the bironic form (Internet Math Notation), is approximately equivalent to: 1!!!11!!11!!!1one111111!11
(whereby "!" replaces zeros, "one" is the fractional separator, to the right of which is the binary exponent).
Protip: There is always a smarter smartass. Get on my level.
Just download LOIC and you're sorted (considered part of the Axis, that is..)
Anything that requires you to use Mono is certainly Axis-worthy.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I think you'll find the Australian authorities had nothing to do with it, since New Zealand is a completely separate country to Australia! ;)
Yes, the ignorance around here is disgraceful. While New Zealand hasn't covered itself in glory here, that pales in insignificance next to Australia's crime of having given Adolf Hitler to the world. Not to mention Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Changed the name. Don Hitler wasn't playing very well in my career writing erotic fiction for overweight women.
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