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Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Wins Battle in Ongoing Fight Against US Extradition (reuters.com)
Eccentric Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won a major court battle today in his ongoing fight against his extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. From a report: German-born Dotcom faces extradition to the United States relating to his Megaupload site, which was shut down in 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion. U.S. authorities say Dotcom and three co-accused Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material. Dotcom, who has New Zealand residency, is fighting those charges and the extradition. The Human Rights Review Tribunal awarded Dotcom damages of NZ$30,000 ($21,816) for the "loss of a benefit" and NZ$60,000 for "loss of dignity and injury to feelings."
Does anyone have the number of this place giving out cash? I have a nice list of names from highschool of people who both caused me loss of dignity and injured my feelings.
Just as the judicial system intended.
If you ever find yourself arrested by a heavily armed militia at gunpoint for a victimless, nonviolent charge for which you cannot defend yourself as all your assets have been unilaterally and indefinitely frozen...
if the judge for your case exhibits criminally contemptuous behavior and appears to be working lock-step in compliance with the wishes of a foreign nations special interest group...
If the prime minister of your country spent four days meeting with the special interest trade group of a foreign nation, and that nations own FBI illegally seized all your data...
then rest assured...The Human Rights Review Tribunal will award you a few thousand dollars for being made to feel bad..
Good people go to bed earlier.
No, with him it's more the "if you hold me prisoner, you have to feed me, maybe you want to reconsider after looking at me" defense.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I still think he should be sued for having such a lame last name.
#DeleteFacebook
I'm really glad to see this.
Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material.
wow, that's almost 6 gorillion shekels.
This does not in any way mean he's won his extradition fight. If you look at the next line in TFA, it says "The Human Rights Review Tribunal’s decision might be relevant for his high-profile U.S. extradition case, which is with the Court of Appeal." So, no more than "might be relevant".
Wow, I have seen loose interpretations of the term "hacker" but I expected better on \.. What exactly is he supposed to have hacked?
This is a guy who saw an opportunity and made money, just another crooked entrepeneur. Really no different than Facebook or Google, except he took data from large corporations, while the latter take data from normal civilians.
"Proximity to wonder has blunted our perception and appreciation of it" --Tim Hartnell in 'Exploring ARTIFICIAL INTELLI
US World Police: 0
Good Guys: 2
(kim.dotcom and Lauri Love won't be thrown into the dungeon of the US injustice system)
I don't condone many of the activities of either, but I don't wish the US "justice" system on anyone either nor condone judicial kidnapping by the US government.
In case it wasn't clear due to the misleading summary, Kim Dotcom is still in court trying to escape the extradition request. The only thing that happened was Kim won one part of his case claiming that some data about him had not been provided by the Attorney General.
The idea is that people shouldn't have to suffer in future. I hope Trump alienates the outside world to the point that they won't even extradite El Chapo if Ivanka begged on her knees for it. US justice is extremely biased and skewed towards the prosecution while maintaining a fiction of fairness.
Damn. Bringin' it.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Can i get my fucking files back now?
Home?
He can go the fuck back to Germany.
He is a permanent resident and has citizenship in New Zealand. He is entitled to stay here as much as any other Kiwi.
New Zealanders are well balanced with a chip on each shoulder. One represents Australia, the other the rest of the world
That might be how things work in the US, but here in New Zealand we haven't politicized our judiciary.
Ah, that grand old time when the US armed and supplied the Soviet Union.
FTFY
He's a permanent resident, not a citizen.
He also lied on his residency application about past criminal convictions.
And in other news the FBI has walked free for the illegal confiscation of electronic equipment belonging to megaupload, what Business does the NSA and New Zealands GCSB have investigating copyright fraud - none, the reason these agencies were involved and the reason there was such a heavy handed approach to the investigation, and the reason the equipment was confiscated is because there was some sort of politically damaging material on there, of a very sensitive nature, so sensitive that they simply couldn't ask Kim to take it down, because then he would know what it was. A corrupt Bureaucracy covering up its trail.
This is what happens when you try to outsmart the corporate media complex:
Kim Dotcom: I thought of a clever way to make money from copyright violations without violating copyright law myself. Aren't I smart.
Media Companies: You are guilty whether you broke the law or not because we bought government.
Kim: Oooops.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
That you did
I remind the pussy Trumptards, AMERICA voted HILLARY
Dirt voted Trump.
As opposed allowed the Nazis to rule for 1000 years?
Was a good deal. Saved us the 23 million lives the Russians lost saving the world
I stand corrected, he is a permanent resident not a citizen.
However in his campaign to not be sent to Uncle Sam he has achieved the following:
- Had the NZ Police pay him unspecified damages for unreasonable use of force in the initial raid
- That the FBI has no right to the information handed to him by the NZ Govt
- The GCSB (local unaccountable spy agency) gave an apology for spying on him which they cannot as a NZ resident.
- Yesterday had the A-G found to be breaching his privacy.
He certainly has kept the NZ lawyer community in business.
New Zealanders are well balanced with a chip on each shoulder. One represents Australia, the other the rest of the world
He also got Hone Harawera out of politics, which I suppose was a good thing.
How he did it, by trying to buy his way in to Parliament was not a good thing.
Yep. Even better deal for the rooskies, though.
Saved us the 23 million lives the Russians lost
Well, at least like 1/100th of that, anyway. Commies don't fight so good. Waves of untrained farmers don't do so well against crack troops with machienguns and tanks.
saving their own asses
FTFY
He just got married though, doesn't that make him a citizen?
No. You don't get citizenship by marrying (at least in NZ).
Dotcom never stood for Parliament, as a permanent resident he cannot, he can vote though.
New Zealanders are well balanced with a chip on each shoulder. One represents Australia, the other the rest of the world
He bank rolled the internet party and the mana party
Absolutely, he did put his money where his mouth is, however he was never going to be an MP.
Internet/ Mana got about half as many votes as the pro-cat murderer in the last election, inconsequential figures for both parties.
New Zealanders are well balanced with a chip on each shoulder. One represents Australia, the other the rest of the world
The case against him is the worst case of a witchhunt since well the actual witchhunts.
Mega Upload was a filt storage locker (bitlocker). It did not encourage piracy but didn't mind taking money from the pirates of course. Using it was free but you could buy more storage space or better bandwidth.
If they did something wrong, so did every other part in the process, from network providers, hosting partners and server manufacturers to each and every users own ISPs. They are no more a part in any offenses than the roads criminals use to get to and from the scenes of their crimes.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) --
Do you really think it would have been nearly as easy to beat German without Soviet assistance? If most of the German Army and Air Force had been in the West? Sending weapons and stuff to the Soviet Union enabled us in the West to beat Germany relatively economically.
The Soviets built most of their own weapons anyway, and weren't going to be defeated by the Germans. (The most dangerous time for the Soviet Union was before significant help had reached the Red Army.) After that, the person who controlled who got what of Europe was Hitler, by moving forces to face whoever was the most immediate threat.
Not supplying the Soviets would have made little difference in where the Iron Curtain fell, but it would have taken a lot longer to defeat Germany, and many more lives would have been lost.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
It doesn't matter how many party votes you get, if you win an electorate. That can happen with as little as 10,000 votes.
If you win your electorate, less than 1% party vote can get you an extra seat to bring in a list MP, giving you 2/121 votes. The Maori part got fewer party votes in 2014 than Internet MANA, but scored 2 seats because they won an electorate. Kim's deal with Hone meant one of his list MP's - Laila Harre - would be first in line.
Laila Harre was bought and paid for my Kim Dotcom. She refused the position when first ask. Then suddenly changed her mind after a personal meeting with Kim.
Do you really think it would have been nearly as easy to beat German without Soviet assistance?
Yes.
If most of the German Army and Air Force had been in the West?
That's a different question. They weren't in the west. Regardless of what the Russians did, Hitler - despite having a treaty with the Russians - made the idiotic mistake of splitting up his forces. As soon as he did that the Allied victory was assured. Supplying the Russians so that they could fight made sense, but even without their assistance Berlin was still doomed.
Oh? And WHICH army was first into Berlin, Capitalist lap dog?
Looks like the "Commies" did a HELL of a job with castoff weapons and better logistics.
Might do you some good to learn some history for once
Well, sure thing, Ivan; when you're willing to throw away the lives of 20 million of your people in order to defeat 5 million Germans, it's no surprise that you make it to Berlin first. That doesn't make you a great general, or make your people great fighters; as your comrade Stalin once said, quantity has a quality all it's own.
An army with every third man armed with a bolt action rifle and 5 rounds will lose more men
That the MEN were willing to die in order to kill Nazis tells you much about how much more moral they were compared to those who call Nazis the equal of antifa,Though it is the fascists who murdered 17 people for political reasons JUST THIS YEAR.
Antifa have killed none.
Ah, I see the problem here. You're a card carrying ANTIFA member which means you meet all of the requirements for membership ... the first of which a room temperature IQ.
Carry on, then.
So the problem is that you are an apologist for the failed Fascist system.
Cranio-rectal intesseption getting in the way of learning is it?
So sorry for you.
No, sweetheart, I just don't like the idea with replacing one type of mindless fanatic with another. The only difference between you and a fascist is the people and ideas which you target; your tactics and your end-goals of suppression of thought and ideological purity are otherwise identical.
And yet, here you are cheering for a false claim against the highly successful Russian Red Army.
I remind you, 100% of fascists believe in Military power first, morality second
That's your mirror calling child