Random Insanity Alliance Forum, Mark V
Cactuar Zone => Random lnsanity => Topic started by: Brian on August 30, 2016, 09:18:24 pm
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in the off chance you guys care. Kim dotcom's extradition trial is being live streamed to youtube.
https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcoms-extradition-hearing-will-be-live-streamed-on-youtube-160830/
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Yes, but I'm still trying to figure out WHEN it'll be.
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sorry,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw7XhgJhQDHkVrJjiw4CONg/live (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw7XhgJhQDHkVrJjiw4CONg/live)
and to be fair, its boring as hell, but its still important. This trial dictates weather or not the US gets to go into other countrys and arrest people for breaking US laws outside of the US.
oh, and it starts at 10am kiwi time, so 5pm cybernations time.
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What's this all about?
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kim dotcom owned megaupload before the FBI took it over. He has been hanging out in new Zealand for like 5 years now.
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oy. which laws is he accused of breaking? is it something that physically harms people or is it about money
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From the little bit that I watched, it's about copyright.
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yeah, its all copyright claims. The US claims he made millions off assisting users with copyright infringement. (he totally did btw.) though he claims its the users fault and not his. Problem is there are all sorts of internal emails of megaupload staff talking about piracy and they apparently had an internal search service and several emails talking of paying pirates for posting stuff to megaupload.
https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-what-made-it-a-rogue-site-worthy-of-destruction-120120/
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Was he in the US during this? What country is he a citizen of?
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He's Finnish/German, and residing in New Zealand.
HE ISN'T AMERICAN AT ALL.
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He's Finnish/German, and residing in New Zealand.
HE ISN'T AMERICAN AT ALL.
So now that the courts have him, he's.......
*puts on sunglasses*
Finnished?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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from what ive read hes kind of a jerk too. but that doesn't really mean that the US can drag him off to prison for a crime that wasnt a crime where he was just because it happened on the internet.
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from what ive read hes kind of a jerk too. but that doesn't really mean that the US can drag him off to prison for a crime that wasnt a crime where he was just because it happened on the internet.
none of his servers were in the US?
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yes, lots and lots.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/explainer-how-can-the-us-seize-a-hong-kong-site-like-megaupload/ (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/explainer-how-can-the-us-seize-a-hong-kong-site-like-megaupload/)
he indictment makes these points repeatedly. Megaupload wasn't just some Hong Kong enterprise that "happened" to be used by US residents. The site had leased more than 1,000 servers in North America alone; 525 were at Carpathia Hosting and were located in Virginia. Between 2007 and 2010, Carpathia received $13 million from Megaupload. (Cogent Communications in the US supplied a few additional US servers and bandwidth.)
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from what ive read hes kind of a jerk too. but that doesn't really mean that the US can drag him off to prison for a crime that wasnt a crime where he was just because it happened on the internet.
sounds like a job for the cyber police
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yes, lots and lots.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/explainer-how-can-the-us-seize-a-hong-kong-site-like-megaupload/ (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/explainer-how-can-the-us-seize-a-hong-kong-site-like-megaupload/)
he indictment makes these points repeatedly. Megaupload wasn't just some Hong Kong enterprise that "happened" to be used by US residents. The site had leased more than 1,000 servers in North America alone; 525 were at Carpathia Hosting and were located in Virginia. Between 2007 and 2010, Carpathia received $13 million from Megaupload. (Cogent Communications in the US supplied a few additional US servers and bandwidth.)
well now that was stupid.
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Not really. Virginia is the capital of the internet and has the most datacenters in the world. When you make up a percentage of the bandwidth on the Internet, it becomes a necessity.
No one would have cared about Megaupload had it been hosted somewhere with shit bandwidth.
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aka all the other filesharing sites that coincidentally everyone hated
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kenny made me smarter today
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quote this post if you love kim dotcom
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That time Kim Dotcom became #1 in Modern Warfare 3 because fuck it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ltcCF_cAQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ltcCF_cAQ)
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to be fair i think that was just on release date or something like that, but that's still quite the accomplishment
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color me impressed. I was number 1 in one worthless stat in some worthless browser based game even worse then CN once, for 5 mins. Thats god damned impressive.
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I was the number 1 Phoenix Wright in WWE
(http://i.imgur.com/XCCyj4Q.gif)
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so many ball kicks...
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i was the #1 ranked citizen in the second version of cyber citizens for close to 3 years at least, including the last 2+ years in a row before it was shut down.
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i was the #1 ranked citizen in the second version of cyber citizens for close to 3 years at least, including the last 2+ years in a row before it was shut down.
Yeah, but the only impressive part of that is that they kept the servers up even when you were the only person still logging in.