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Kim Dotcom sues government for billions

article published on 22 January, 2018

Founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload is suing the government of New Zealand for billions of dollars. Megaupload allowed users around the world to upload files to its service which could be later downloaded by others with the same link. In January 2012, New Zealand police raided the home of founder Kim Dotcom while investigating alleged copyright infringement offenses. In ... [ read the full article ]

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gDavid
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_ 		22. January 2018 @ 12:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hope that he wins.
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Bozobub
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_ 		22. January 2018 @ 15:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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 Technically, under that copyright act, online copyright infringement is not a crime.

Ouch. Technically, NZ's government is hosed =x.
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_ 		23. January 2018 @ 19:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What he wants & what he gets if anything are two different stories.This isn't like the U.S where massive ridiculous amounts are awarded.Down here he'll get a pittance
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ivymike
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_ 		24. January 2018 @ 02:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Take NZ to the cleaners, Kim.
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Bozobub
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_ 		24. January 2018 @ 10:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by scorpNZ:
 What he wants & what he gets if anything are two different stories.This isn't like the U.S where massive ridiculous amounts are awarded.Down here he'll get a pittance

Perhaps so. But he'll also gain security for both his own person and for his new company, "Mega", which is invaluable.
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KillerBug
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_ 		26. January 2018 @ 08:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'd love to see him sue the US government. These days services like Megashare are commonplace; offered by companies like Microsoft and Google...they don't do it as well, but same concept. While some were using Megashare illegally, others were using it for cloud backup.

Personally I lost my cloud backup the same week my raid controller freaked out and destroyed both halves of a mirror. Just think if they did that today...when using the cloud for backups is common.
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Mr-Movies
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_ 		27. January 2018 @ 21:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hope he wins too! The amount he is suing for seems low ball to me for the time & factors involved.
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_ 		31. January 2018 @ 17:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hope he wins in both courts (US and NZ).
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