I'd say that they were wrong to seize MU's funds and prevent them from paying their hosting bills with carpathia in the first place, so yes they DO owe something.
If they'd simply allowed the hosting bills to be paid we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
They wouldn't need to pay for their data if the feds hadn't frozen MU's assets in the first place.
I mean seriously, why is it that in a forfeiture case they flat out just take everything you have on hand and basically force you to shaft everyone you owe in the process?
Fudge, the only reason this is a problem in the first place is because the feds swooped in and confiscated all of mega upload's funds and won't even let it pay their hosting bills. They had to fight like hell just to get enough to pay their legal bills.
Which honestly sounds like imposing an unfair burden on carpathia hosting.
Seriously, carpathia hosting is an innocent bystander in all of this that has been forced to squat on its servers while the feds sit on MU's money.
Not to mention seizing MU's funs BEFORE they are convicted in court. They've pretty much been thrown in prison for life before they've even got a guilty verdict against them.
What I'm more concerned about is that lax security will make bitcoins easier to steal than to spend unless you're a technophile. Already it's valuable enough to be specifically targeted by malware.
So if it succeeds it will make geeks an elite.
That plus the sheer lulz of destroying a fortune of someone else's bitcoin stash by sending it to 0 or nuking their wallet will encourage some mavericks to try to ruin one person's wealth to make their own a little more valuable.
Just a quick note: Murder implies intent, and you can't really do it by accident. If you look at someone, point a gun at them, and pull the trigger, you are damn well doing it on purpose.
The only time you can accidentally *murder* someone is by the felony murder doctrine where a death caused in furtherance of a felony is escalated to murder.
Otherwise it's manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, or in completely crimeless situations it could even just be a civil matter of wrongful death.
If you're committing a crime like burglary you probably don't really care about the safety of the homeowner, and your decision on whether or not to let them live will probably depend on the liability of letting them survive versus the liability of killing them.
Killing them will prevent them from testifying against you, but a homicide will attract more investigative attention and you risk getting nailed for murder.
Guns only kill people if someone pulls the trigger.
The probability of someone pulling or threatening to pull the trigger goes up if they are a criminal trying to attack a person, and it also goes up if they have reason to believe their victim is unarmed.
So disarming the citizens only works if you disarm the criminals first.
Making the hardware only work with your own (drm enforcing?) drivers and break on purpose when a warranty voiding custom driver is used is actually a feature sometimes from the pov of the vendor.
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Government supervision as a neutral referee to enforce contracts and stamp out fraud is *part* of capitalism.
The minute you have a monopoly stepping in and forcing the competition out of the market it becomes bastardized communism.
Don't kid yourself.
Comcast is only fighting back because having its subscribers targeted by subpoenas is bad for business.
How many people were killed per capita by the chinese?
By the chinese government?
ditto for america and iran.
You can't play the game unless you're rich enough to begin with to buy politicians off.
Because the moment you step on the field you are a target and the elite have the referees on their own payroll.
They don't care about laws they can get away with breaking, and I think it's blatant false advertizing to manipulate after market studies.
Just because it's the status quo doesn't make it right.
Apathy is what allows this crap to continue.
If MU *did* have any backups they probably got seized.
No, he's just citing Sovereign Immunity
History is written by the victors because the losers aren't around anymore.
It's no different from an armed robber getting richer because he has a gun to force money out of your pockets.
I'd say that they were wrong to seize MU's funds and prevent them from paying their hosting bills with carpathia in the first place, so yes they DO owe something.
If they'd simply allowed the hosting bills to be paid we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
They wouldn't need to pay for their data if the feds hadn't frozen MU's assets in the first place.
I mean seriously, why is it that in a forfeiture case they flat out just take everything you have on hand and basically force you to shaft everyone you owe in the process?
The money is NOT there, the feds confiscated it.
Fudge, the only reason this is a problem in the first place is because the feds swooped in and confiscated all of mega upload's funds and won't even let it pay their hosting bills. They had to fight like hell just to get enough to pay their legal bills.
Which honestly sounds like imposing an unfair burden on carpathia hosting.
Seriously, carpathia hosting is an innocent bystander in all of this that has been forced to squat on its servers while the feds sit on MU's money.
Not to mention seizing MU's funs BEFORE they are convicted in court. They've pretty much been thrown in prison for life before they've even got a guilty verdict against them.
The collective elite of geeks.
What I'm more concerned about is that lax security will make bitcoins easier to steal than to spend unless you're a technophile. Already it's valuable enough to be specifically targeted by malware.
So if it succeeds it will make geeks an elite.
That plus the sheer lulz of destroying a fortune of someone else's bitcoin stash by sending it to 0 or nuking their wallet will encourage some mavericks to try to ruin one person's wealth to make their own a little more valuable.
Guns may kill people but it takes a human to pull the trigger.
Being able to identify them in court is bad enough for them in most cases and that is why you get shot if you resist.
Criminals don't have to worry about you killing them to use deadly force against their victims.
Just a quick note: Murder implies intent, and you can't really do it by accident. If you look at someone, point a gun at them, and pull the trigger, you are damn well doing it on purpose.
The only time you can accidentally *murder* someone is by the felony murder doctrine where a death caused in furtherance of a felony is escalated to murder.
Otherwise it's manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, or in completely crimeless situations it could even just be a civil matter of wrongful death.
If you're committing a crime like burglary you probably don't really care about the safety of the homeowner, and your decision on whether or not to let them live will probably depend on the liability of letting them survive versus the liability of killing them.
Killing them will prevent them from testifying against you, but a homicide will attract more investigative attention and you risk getting nailed for murder.
Guns only kill people if someone pulls the trigger.
The probability of someone pulling or threatening to pull the trigger goes up if they are a criminal trying to attack a person, and it also goes up if they have reason to believe their victim is unarmed.
So disarming the citizens only works if you disarm the criminals first.
What does that law say about manufacturers deliberatly making things flakey unless used with only the manufacturer's own parts?
Such as oh, I dunno, an iphone that self destructs if you jailbreak it
Making the hardware only work with your own (drm enforcing?) drivers and break on purpose when a warranty voiding custom driver is used is actually a feature sometimes from the pov of the vendor.
Maybe for some reason MS decided to force them to void the warranty for uninstalling windows.
Not everyone does, my point was that prevention is often cheaper than cure.
Those cases are only high profile because the farmers in question tried to fight back.
How many got squashed and caved simply from the threat of going bankrupt from legal bills?