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I remember following this story for like a few years before I trailed off. This is absolutely fucking ridiculous. This was all orchestrated by the MAFIAA in an attempt to again make an example out of someone, because it wasn't too long after or so, that they managed to penalize and jail some of the original Pirate Bay founders. All of which were long not involved with the Pirate Bay but just because they've been associated with such a symbol that has continually and still continues to trounce the efforts of the copyright regime, had to go and make examples of them.
So here we are now with Dotcom and it feels exactly the same here. Gotta make an example of them because of the years long process of the butt-hurt executives in the copyright regime, crying crocodile tears about superfluous lost "millions" that they still to this day continue to keep vague, just to gain some clout.
Fuck them.
You have to differentiate between the pirate bay and Kim dotcom. The pirate bay has not sold the access to the media like he has.
The huge difference is that he profited off of pirated media and pirate bay not. Kims incentive was always profit for himself.
Absolutely. I have hated this fucking guy when he was still in Germany. He has been a criminal for all of his adult life. Fuck him.
Didn't he start his "career" with showing a hack on how to get free dial-up internet on German TV for fame and thereby ruining it for everyone because obviously the telco "fixed" the hack after that?
Yeah I'm kinda with you. If you're becoming filthy rich off selling access to content others made then you're fair game. If you're just doing it for yourself / not profiting it's a very different ball game though
Ok.
I'm absolutely with you for the copyright part. I didn't follow the story but isn't part of it also because of money laundering? I'm not sure if I'm confusing different cases here, just asking because you may remember more.
Oh right, that. The money laundering.
Here's an example of how scummy the department of justice in the united states was when it comes to handling copyright cases and bowing to the luxurious cocks of the media industry. They brandished the money laundering and racketeering excuse to cover up the fact that it was all about the claims of copyright infringement that got them to sick the SWAT teams on Dotcom.
People on the outside of this story, had no clue what was going on. But every pirate knew exactly what this was all about.
Oh man I'm stupid, it's in the article. I've read OPs summary and somehow checked it off as "read the article" and I was wondering why that wasn't mentioned.
Of course the money laundering accusations are a farce, I just thought they'd keep on that for the extradition.