Megaupload neergehaald door de FBI #4 Kim Jing Ping Ping

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 18:53 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 19:08 schreef Darksiders440 het volgende:

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Ik hoop wel dat er gecontroleerd gaat worden wat er geüpload wordt. Een plek waar iedereen gewoon kan uploaden zonder controle lijkt me niet echt fijn...

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 19:08 schreef Darksiders440 het volgende:

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Ik hoop wel dat er gecontroleerd gaat worden wat er geüpload wordt. Een plek waar iedereen gewoon kan uploaden zonder controle lijkt me niet echt fijn...

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 22:48 schreef k_man het volgende:
Filesonic is nu ook gestopt met sharing. Al dan niet vrijwillig.

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 22:48 schreef k_man het volgende:
Filesonic is nu ook gestopt met sharing. Al dan niet vrijwillig.

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 23:02 schreef NotYou het volgende:
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In your fraking face(s) FBI!

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 22:52 schreef NotYou het volgende:

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Verstandige jongens. Sometimes it's best to quit while you're ahead.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:22 schreef Waffle het volgende:
Het is gedaan met het internet zoals wij het kennen, helaas...

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:39 schreef dikkebroekzak het volgende:
Allemaal lafaards. Het soort mensen dat zich vast aan de kant van de Nazi's geschaard zou hebben tijdens WO 2 uit vrees voor represailles.

Gewoon alles verhuizen naar Rusland. Zwicht niet voor de grote boef USA. Geef hun geen cm!

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:31 schreef ZaZoe het volgende:
De harde aanpak van de feds heeft schijnbaar indruk gemaakt.
Megaupload en Filesonic waren grote jongens. The end of filesharing?
Vrees voor een domino effect nu.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:42 schreef benx het volgende:
Zolang ze maar van Youtube afblijven.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:46 schreef boekenplank het volgende:

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Ook het internet is waarschijnlijk een schurkenstaat waar Amerika denkt te moeten ingrijpen.
Isoleren die zelfbenoemde superstaat. Bomb Disney and MCDonalds.
Hallo Rob Bertholee.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:42 schreef NotYou het volgende:

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:43 schreef Waffle het volgende:
Youtube is ook al lang niet meer wat het wel geweest is. Een blok reclame daar...

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:51 schreef dikkebroekzak het volgende:

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Dat meen ik.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:54 schreef NotYou het volgende:

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Je roept daadwerkelijk op tot het "bomben" van McDonalds?

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:56 schreef dikkebroekzak het volgende:

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huh? Ik schreef niks over Mcdonalds of bommen.

Ik had het over vethuizen naar Rusland.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:57 schreef boekenplank het volgende:

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Wie is vethuizen?

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:58 schreef dikkebroekzak het volgende:

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verkassen ei. Je snapt me toch?

Bomb Disneyland Faster Bastard

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:56 schreef dikkebroekzak het volgende:

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huh? Ik schreef niks over Mcdonalds of bommen.

Ik had het over vethuizen naar Rusland.

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Allemaal lafaards. Het soort mensen dat zich vast aan de kant van de Nazi's geschaard zou hebben tijdens WO 2 uit vrees voor represailles.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 02:01 schreef NotYou het volgende:

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Het is al laat. Overigens had mijn " " meer betrekking hierop:

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Maar dat je vervolgens Rusland erbij haalt is eigenlijk ook wel een " " waard. Naar Rusland voor de vrijheid, de natives zien je al aankomen.

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If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:41 schreef Waffle het volgende:
Het is wel waar dat voor deze twee die nu verdwenen zijn waarschijnlijk 4 terug komen die minstens zo groot worden. Alleen zitten ze dan in Rusland.

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Dipoweb twitterde op zondag 22-01-2012 om 22:46:35 Bye bye: Megaupload ✓ Megavideo ✓ Megaporn ✓ Wupload ✓ Filesonic ✓ Soon: Fileserve □ Netload □ ViPFile □ Filepost □ VideoBB □ Letitbit □ reageer retweet

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 01:42 schreef benx het volgende:
Zolang ze maar van Youtube afblijven.

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 19:53 schreef t-8one het volgende:

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Hoezo?
Waarom zou je niet gewoon ergens anoniem je homemade movies op mogen slaan?

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Why was MegaUpload really shut down?

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)

I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak

Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."

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UPDATE: Het bewijs tegen Nomm zou bestaan uit een mail die hij stuurde naar de Nederlandse tech Bram van der Kolk + screenshot waarop te zien is hoe Nomm vanaf Megaupload.com een illegale episode van de TV-serie 'Chuck' zit te kijken. Ontzettende WTF?

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 10:15 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:

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Dipoweb twitterde op zondag 22-01-2012 om 22:46:35 Bye bye: Megaupload ✓ Megavideo ✓ Megaporn ✓ Wupload ✓ Filesonic ✓ Soon: Fileserve □ Netload □ ViPFile □ Filepost □ VideoBB □ Letitbit □ reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 26 januari 2012 18:36 schreef banaantjeEE het volgende:

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byebye premium account MU en Filesonic

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De Catalaanse piratenpartij verzamelt klachten van Megaupload-gebruikers die hun bestanden kwijt zijn door het platleggen van Megaupload door de Amerikaanse justitie.

Verschillende piratenpartijen, onder leiding van de Catalaanse piratenpartij, verzamelen gegevens van Megaupload-gebruikers als munitie voor een rechtszaak tegen onder meer de FBI, meldt TorrentFreak.

Schade door sluiting

Doordat politie en justitie zonder waarschuwing de stekker uit een van de populairste sites op het internet heeft getrokken, kunnen gebruikers niet meer bij hun bestanden. Een onbekend gedeelte van die bestanden is gewoon legaal of werd überhaupt niet gedeeld, maar is nu onbereikbaar.

De sluiting van de site is dan ook buitenproportioneel en heeft enorm veel schade veroorzaakt, stelt de Catalaanse piratenpartij, die zoveel mogelijk klachten wil bundelen voor een rechtszaak tegen Amerikaanse autoriteiten.

Gecoördineerde razzia

Vorige week werd in een international gecoördineerde actie verschillende arrestaties verricht en honderden servers offline gehaald, onder meer bij hosting provider Leaseweb. Volgens de FBI vormen de beheerders een criminele organisatie, die drijft op het faciliteren van inbreuk door het hosten van talloze illegaal gedeelde bestanden.

Oprichter Kim Dotcom zit nog in voorarrest, de Nederlandse Megaupload-medewerker, Bram van der Kolk, is wel op borgtocht vrij, maar blijft verdachte in de zaak.

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"Wat nodig is zijn robuuste, aantrekkelijke businessmodellen, die makkelijk in gebruik zijn en een fair deal bieden aan zowel de producenten als de afnemers van content", schrijft het bedrijf.

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Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land

While last week’s shutdown of MegaUpload is of huge interest in itself, but a wave of aftershocks and side-effects are proving equally fascinating to watch. In addition to causing all sorts of problems for legitimate users of file-sharing services, there is no avoiding the fact that certain elements of the piracy scene are in a mess. But amazingly, still the beat goes on.


Despite its “rogue site” status and various other warnings, when MegaUpload went down last week it still came as a shock.

But what came next was unprecedented, a dramatic reaction in cyberlocker land that took out vast libraries of digital content and capacity. The perception of the established ground rules had been changed, without the passing of a single new law.

FBI, arrests by huge numbers of police, enormous cash and asset seizures overseas, reward program scrutiny, knowledge of payouts to persistent uploaders of infringing content. Extradition. These are things that changed the game.

“If the US government can come for Kim Dotcom it can happen to almost anyone,” a file-hosting operator told TorrentFreak on condition of anonymity. “I’m trying to think of everything I did possibly wrong in the last 3 years and worrying about that and the next 3 years also, if we even have that long.”

For many hosting sites it was time to react – quickly.

Earlier this week we documented the drastic actions taken by services such as Filesonic and Fileserve who shut down all 3rd party sharing and, like many others, closed down their affiliate payout programs. Later we showed how file-hosting competitors such as 4shared, Rapidshare and Hotfile had grown as users hunted for spare capacity.

In the space of a week and the MegaUpload shutdown aside, huge libraries of both legitimate and pirated material were wiped out as filehost after filehost deleted an impossible-to-calculate number of files and closed down thousands of suspected infringing accounts.

And this is where it gets quite interesting.

For more than half a decade Hollywood and the recording industry have spent millions of dollars not so much on actually eliminating illegal content, but getting rid of links to content such as those found on BitTorrent.

But this week, without a single cease and desist being sent, cyberlockers across the globe not only self-deleted vast quantities of files, but in doing so made millions of links across thousands of ‘linking sites’ completely useless too.

For the operators of these linking sites and their uploaders, this week has been very hard work indeed. For some sites it was all too much and the shutters have simply come down.

The problem, it seems, is money. While there is money to be made in torrent sites, the content sharers there are largely altruistic. The cyberlocker scene is more complex and incestuous, with revenue being generated in a handful of basic ways on both legal and illegal content.

Through reward programs, uploaders get paid on the number of times people subsequently download content. Equally, ‘release’ sites can upload the content themselves and get paid like a regular uploader when people download. Reward programs are important for cyberlockers too since they attract customers away from competitors and also give them an incentive to supply content.

Release sites and warez forums send users to cyberlockers to get content and when they get there they are faced with a choice. Download a little, relatively slowly but for free, or pay for a premium account and get lots as quickly as possible. In many cases choosing the first option means that cyberlockers also make more money from advertising.

When various sites shut their rewards programs this week, those uploading purely for the money were hit hard. In fact, many who had cash mounting up in their accounts lost it all – some cyberlockers simply kept the accrued money. While the ‘victims’ were livid, those who hate financially motivated ‘sharing’ commented that justice had been served.

But while it’s clear that some uploaders, often young and in less well-off countries, are ‘sharing’ small time for a few bucks, for some the reward payouts are more important. For many release sites, those rewards pay the server bills.

“We needed the payout and when [filehost name redacted on request] shut down sharing we were all but finished,” one admin of a release site told TorrentFreak. “90% of our content was hosted there. Then they deleted all our files and closed the account. They won’t even speak with us about it. A whole year’s work gone. We shut at the end of the month.”

But like worker ants whose nest has just been smashed apart by angry humans, others are utterly unfazed and just want to know which hosts are still paying out. Despite the climate of fear, quite a few hosts say they are and it’s evident from the links being posted on release blogs that the upload-for-cash crew have noticed them quickly.

Things, however, are still in a state of flux. Some of the filehosts still paying out appear to be offering tiered reward systems with just about every country in the world getting a reasonable deal but with the United States right at the very bottom.

Another interesting rumor, which at the time of writing we have been unable to confirm, is that one of the filehosts who banned 3rd party downloads earlier this week is now re-enabling them. This is something to look out for. Without 3rd party links being operational users are extremely unlikely to sign up for a premium account and this is where the cyberlockers can make good money.

So finally, one has to ask whether the MegaUpload shutdown has damaged the Internet piracy infrastructure. Providing an answer is not easy.

The amount of material coming online has not really reduced – content feeding from ‘The Scene’ is business as usual. Torrent sites are watching on closely, but the public ones tend not to host content, their users do. Cyberlockers are in a mess, but already recovering. Release sites are continuing, albeit with a reduced number of multiple links to the same content.

Perhaps the best test is whether it’s now very hard or impossible to find and download popular content. Not even close.

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Op zaterdag 28 januari 2012 22:48 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 28 januari 2012 23:55 schreef Tegan het volgende:

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Interessant stuk .

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Op woensdag 25 januari 2012 13:00 schreef ender_xenocide het volgende:
weet iemand hier meer van?
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<sub>Op dinsdag 24 januari 2012 23:44 schreef YuckFou het volgende:
Om even wat zaken recht te zetten hoe vre-se-lijk zielig de muziek industrie is hier twee interessante links, de eerste is van Courtney Love die even haarfijn analyseert hoe een contract in 'the real world' werkt, de tweede het fysieke bewijs hoe een million dollar profit film, Harry Potter deel 5, een verlies van $167 opleverde...
http://thepirateparty.com(...)y-love-does-the-math
http://www.slashfilm.com/(...)rder-of-the-phoenix/
Het zou mij niks verbazen, er vanuit gaande dat het MegaBox project waarheid is, dat er via een stevig RIAA lobby tot actie is overgegaan omdat de mediareuzen onrustig werden van dit project.

Er zijn talloze voorbeelden te vinden van artiesten die hun eigen label hebben aangevochten via de rechter om onder hun (wurg) contract uit te komen en zo tot een betere verdienste te kunnen komen en verreweg het grootste deel van hun kapitaal hebben ze vaak te danken aan het eindeloze touren en optreden wat misschien als een luxe leven kan overkomen maar in feite betekend dat je eindeloos lang in hotelkamers leeft en avond aan avond een topprestatie moet neerzetten omdat je fans nou eenmaal dat van je verwachtten....

Ik kan me dan ook goed indenken dat als MegaUpload een systeem heeft uitgedacht waarbij artiesten inderdaad op een heldere manier hun muziek aan de man kunnen brengen en daarvan een enorm stuk meer overhouden er een behoorlijk aantal overstag zullen gaan en zichzelf gaan uitbrengen in plaats van dit via een maatschappij te doen.

Zeker artiesten met een internationale reputatie die over een ingewerkt netwerk van agenten en promotors beschikken hebben geen hulp van een record label nodig en kunnen dit dan geheel in eigen beheer doen, blijft staan dat de back catalogue vaak wel bij de rechthebbende achterblijft en eerder werk dus via de reguliere kanalen of inderdaad illegale downloads aangeboden blijft worden.

Kleine kanttekening dan nog, ondanks dat het downloaden op zo'n grote schaal gebeurt hebben de Nederlandse bioscopen voor het, ik meen, 2e of 3e jaar op rij recordomzetten geboekt en lijkt er dus in Nederland tot nu toe op de reguliere platenhandel na, niemand slechter te worden van downloaden, en het verdwijnen van de platenzaken doet bij mij ook zeer, m'n vriendje werkt erin dus ik zie van dichtbij hoe moeilijk het soms gaat, toch zal voor de niche markt er altijd een plek bestaan en hebben ze het meeste te vrezen van gestreamde content als video-on-demand, spotify en gameconsoles die games in plaats van via een fysiek product via downloads aan de man willen brengen, en wie doen dat? Juist de uitgevers....</sub>

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'Data Megaupload mogelijk donderdag gewist'

De data die op in beslag genomen Megaupload-servers staat kan al vanaf aanstaande donderdag worden gewist. Dat gaat ook om data die niet illegaal is, zoals familiefoto's.

Volgens persbureau Associated Press (AP) kan de data van Megaupload-gebruikers al vanaf donderdag van de servers worden gewist. De filesharingsite werd eerder deze maand uit de lucht gehaald omdat er op grote schaal auteursrechtelijk beschermde bestanden werden gedeeld. De mannen achter de site, waaronder een Nederlandse programmeur en oprichter Kim Dotcom zijn in de boeien geslagen.

Overgebleven data
In een ingediende brief, die in handen is van AP, stelt het Amerikaanse Openbaar Ministerie dat de data op de servers vanaf donderdag door hosters Carpathia Hosting en Cogent Communications Group gewist mag worden. Over de servers van de Nederlandse Megaupload hoster Leaseweb wordt niet gerept.

Uit de brief blijkt verder dat de Amerikaanse overheid bepaalde data van de servers heeft gehaald. Verder kunnen de onderzoekers niets meer met de data omdat de grenzen van het huiszoekingsbevel zijn bereikt. De rechten ontbreken om de rest van de data te doorzoeken. Wie bezwaar heeft tegen het wissen van de data moet contact opnemen met de hosters. De verantwoordelijkheid ligt nu bij hen, aldus de openbaar aanklager.

Geen geld
Megaupload probeert het wissen van de data tegen te houden. Volgens het bedrijf gaat het ook om miljoenen gebruikers die persoonlijke bestanden hebben opgeslagen in de online kluis. Sinds de site op zwart ging heeft niemand toegang gehad tot zijn bestanden.

De kans bestaat dat de hosters overgaan tot het verwijderen van de bestanden omdat Megaupload zijn rekeningen niet meer kan betalen. De bankrekeningen van het bedrijf zijn bevroren. Volgens de advocaat van de online kluis zou de data van minstens 50 miljoen gebruikers in het geding zijn, aldus AP. Megaupload zegt er alles aan te doen om de data te behouden en samen te werken met de openbaar aanklagers. De data is ook belangrijk om tot een goed verweer te komen in de rechtszaal.
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Op zaterdag 21 januari 2012 18:26 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Jij vergelijkt meneer de zelfverrijker, de oplichter, de handelaar in voorkennis, de heler van gestolen goederen, de landgoedeigenaar, rolls royce rijdende, shotgun in een bunker hebbende veroordeelde crimineel met mensen die hun leven waagden tegen een militaire overheerser die willekeurig mensen doodden op gruwelijke wijze?

Echt?

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Op maandag 6 februari 2012 14:14 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:
Torrentsite BTjunkie gooit handdoek in de ring - update

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Op zaterdag 21 januari 2012 15:24 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Handelen met voorkennis is gewoon strafbaar hoor, zoals de Duitse rechter met mij eens is.

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 09:28 schreef wolfrolf het volgende:
Die Dotcom is zó ontzettend vertrokken nu Zwitserland here he comes

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Op dinsdag 14 februari 2012 02:34 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:
inside kim's huisje (plus info over de aanval van politie, geheime kamers)

http://www.3news.co.nz/Ca(...)/242116/Default.aspx

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 09:33 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:

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Die komt het land echt niet uit...

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Op dinsdag 14 februari 2012 02:34 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:
inside kim's huisje (plus info over de aanval van politie, geheime kamers)

http://www.3news.co.nz/Ca(...)/242116/Default.aspx

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DE SAPPIGSTE DETAILS VAN DE MEGAUPLOAD-RECHTSZAAK

In minder dan 24 uur tijd is Megaupload van 's werelds grootste aanbieder van illegale content veranderd in de interessantste Amerikaanse digitale strafzaak ooit. Onmiddellijk na het offline halen van Megaupload crashte hackerscollectief Anonymous als wraak de websites van de FBI, MPAA, RIAA en Universal. Veel mensen praten er nu over, maar niemand lijkt het 72 pagina’s tellende document over de aanklacht gelezen te hebben. Maar nu Megaupload toch uit de lucht is, hadden wij genoeg tijd om het hele ding te lezen. Dit zijn de sappigste details:

- De aanklacht wijst op 'populaire' sites die linken naar Megaupload. Ze noemen Ninjavideo, maar over Icefilms wordt niet gesproken. Hoe oud is dit ding?

- Hooggeplaatste medewerkers van Megaupload hadden een speciale zoekmachine waarmee ze ALLES op Megaupload konden vinden. Dat is fucking awesome.

- Toen Google eenmaal doorhad wat Megaupload aan het doen was, haalden ze alle advertenties van Megaupload van GoogleAds. Het antwoord van Megaupload was het ontwikkelen van een eigen advertentienetwerk, Megaclick.

- De tool waarmee Megaupload zogenaamd grote Amerikaanse instituties hielp om copyrightbestanden offline te halen sloeg natuurlijk nergens op. Als een gebruiker een film uploadde, zeg The Hangover, dan doorzocht Megaupload hun servers naar een overeenkomstig bestand. Die link werd dan verwijderd, ook al wisten ze maar al te goed dat er honderden tot duizenden andere links waren naar hetzelfde bestand. Het was eigenlijk gewoon een slimme middelvinger naar de copyrighthouder.

- De Amerikaanse overheid houdt zich vast aan het bewijs dat de eigenaar van Megaupload Kim Dotcom het nummer 'Nah' van 50 Cent en Mobb Deep in 2006 gedeeld had. Serieus. Dit is een van hun grootste aanklachten. "Op of rond 3 december 2006 verspreidde KIM DOTCOM een link op megaupload.com naar een muziekbestand getiteld "05-50_cent_feat._mobb_deep-nah-c4.mp3." Hij wordt niet beschuldigd van het hebben van een domme kutnaam.

- Kim is een inwoner van Hongkong en Nieuw-Zeeland. Hij is ook een Fins en Duits staatsburger.

- Volgens de Amerikaanse overheid verdiende Kim in 2010 $42 miljoen dollar aan Megaupload.

- Er heeft sinds 2006 zo’n $110 miljoen door de Paypal-account van Megaupload gestroomd.

- Megaupload was van plan om alle content van YouTube te downloaden en weer te uploaden op hun eigen site, om de illegale content te maskeren.

- Interne e-mails tussen werknemers van Megaupload bewijzen dat ze bewust een illegale operatie runden, maar dat het ze niets kon schelen. In een van de e-mails schrijft een werknemer, "We zijn een grappig bedrijf... moderne piraten " waarop een ander antwoordde, "We zijn geen piraten, we bieden alleen vervoer aan piraten ".

- Dankzij hun beloningsprogramma voor trouwe uploaders verdiende één gebruiker $55.000 door 5.845 stuks Vietnamese content, 10 dvd-rips, wat porno en (iets wat leek op) een Italiaanse televisieserie te uploaden.

- Megaupload betaalde hun hostingbedrijf Carpathia rond de $700.000 en $1 miljoen per maand vanuit een bankrekening in Hongkong.

- Cogent Communications, een internet service provider uit Atlanta, verdiende $1 miljoen per maand aan Megaupload.

- Megaupload gaf in juni 2011 $2,4 miljoen dollar uit aan het huren van jachten.

- De Amerikaanse overheid zit achter een vermogen van $175 miljoen aan, waaronder 59 verschillende bankrekeningen.

- Ze zoeken ook minstens 14 BMW's, een standbeeld van Predator, twee 108 inch televisies, een Seadoo, een Cadillac uit 1957, een Maserati en een Mini Cooper.

- Kim bezat een Rolls Royce Phantom met een nummerbord waar ‘GOD’ op stond. Op zijn andere auto's stond onder andere: GUILTY, STONED, GOOD, CEO, MAFIA en HACKER.

Wat we hieruit op kunnen maken is dat Megaupload inderdaad een criminele organisatie was en dat ze zich daar bovendien volledig van bewust waren. Ze hebben absurd veel geld verdiend en ze zullen zeker de geschiedenisboeken ingaan als een van de meest gestoorde digitale operaties ooit. Jammer genoeg zal de timing hiervan in combinatie met het hele SOPA-gedoe waarschijnlijk leiden tot de beperking van de internetvrijheid, maar de tijd zal het leren. Voorlopig kunnen we ons alleen verwonderen over de man die miljoenen dollars verdiend heeft met geripte dvd's.

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Wat we hieruit op kunnen maken is dat Megaupload inderdaad een criminele organisatie was en dat ze zich daar bovendien volledig van bewust waren.

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De tool waarmee Megaupload zogenaamd grote Amerikaanse instituties hielp om copyrightbestanden offline te halen sloeg natuurlijk nergens op. Als een gebruiker een film uploadde, zeg The Hangover, dan doorzocht Megaupload hun servers naar een overeenkomstig bestand. Die link werd dan verwijderd, ook al wisten ze maar al te goed dat er honderden tot duizenden andere links waren naar hetzelfde bestand. Het was eigenlijk gewoon een slimme middelvinger naar de copyrighthouder.

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De Amerikaanse overheid houdt zich vast aan het bewijs dat de eigenaar van Megaupload Kim Dotcom het nummer 'Nah' van 50 Cent en Mobb Deep in 2006 gedeeld had. Serieus. Dit is een van hun grootste aanklachten. "Op of rond 3 december 2006 verspreidde KIM DOTCOM een link op megaupload.com naar een muziekbestand getiteld "05-50_cent_feat._mobb_deep-nah-c4.mp3." Hij wordt niet beschuldigd van het hebben van een domme kutnaam.

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 15:32 schreef Wessell het volgende:
Fileserve is weer terug

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 13:19 schreef stoeltafel het volgende:

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It’s Official: US Demands Extradition of Megaupload Suspects

Authorities in the United States have put in an official request to extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and the three other suspects in the “Mega Conspiracy.” While the request doesn’t come as a surprise, the prosecutors waited till the official deadline last Friday before filing the paperwork. It will take a while before the fate of the accused is decided, as the first extradition hearing is planned for August.

Last Friday, US prosecutors filed an extradition request against four New Zealand-based suspects who were allegedly part of the so-called “Mega Conspiracy.”

Kim Dotcom is wanted in the United States alongside other key Megaupload employees on racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering charges.

In the battle to extradite the defendants, US authorities intend to rely on a United Nations treaty aimed at combating international organized crime.

Previously a lawyer working on behalf of the United States government admitted that no copyright offenses are specifically listed in the extradition treaty. However, he also noted that certain offenses which involve transnational crime are covered by New Zealand’s Extradition Act.

In New Zealand crimes must carry a four year prison sentence to be deemed extraditable. Under the country’s Copyright Act, distributing an infringing work carries a five year maximum sentence.

Experts and observers are predicting that due to its groundbreaking status, the extradition battle for the Megaupload defendants will be both complex and prolonged, and could even go all the way to the Supreme Court.

For now, the first extradition hearing has been scheduled for August 20.

Megaupload programmer Bram van der Kolk recently called on the New Zealand authorities to remain dignified in their extradition dealings with the United States.

“I really hope New Zealand will keep its dignity and can show that it is a sovereign state that has its own justice system,” he said, referring to the extradition process.

Talking to TorrentFreak last week, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said that he and his co-defendants are positive that the law is on their side.

“We’re going for this and we’re confident we’re going to win,” Kim said.

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 13:19 schreef stoeltafel het volgende:

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- Ze zoeken ook minstens 14 BMW's, een standbeeld van Predator, twee 108 inch televisies, een Seadoo, een Cadillac uit 1957, een Maserati en een Mini Cooper.

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Op zaterdag 17 maart 2012 18:29 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:
Interview met Kim Dotcom!!!

http://ondemand.tv3.co.nz(...)MCat/73/Default.aspx

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Op zaterdag 17 maart 2012 18:29 schreef Yuri_Boyka het volgende:
Interview met Kim Dotcom!!!

http://ondemand.tv3.co.nz(...)MCat/73/Default.aspx

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Entertainment Industry Was Eager to Work With Megaupload

Considering the aggressive stance taken by the MPAA against Megaupload, one might be forgiven for thinking the Hollywood-backed group and file-hosting service were sworn enemies. But behind the scenes things were quite different, with companies including Disney, Warner Brothers and Fox courting Megaupload to set up content distribution and advertising deals.

“By all estimates, Megaupload.com is the largest and most active criminally operated website targeting creative content in the world,” said the MPAA in a statement issued immediately after Mega was shutdown in January.

As statements go, they don’t get much more harsh than that, so one might think that hostilities between Megaupload and the member companies of the MPAA are a long-standing thing.

But as we know, despite all the rhetoric the likes of the usually-aggressive Disney never sued the Hong Kong based file-hosting service, and instead opted to let the FBI do their work for them.

While this government-financed approach will have proven substantially cheaper than dragging Megaupload through civil court, some potentially embarrassing things would have inevitably come out in such a case – such as this selection of emails just obtained by TorrentFreak.

In an eyebrow-raising email penned by Disney attorney Gregg Pendola, the counsel contacts Megaupload not to threaten or sue the company, but to set up a deal to have Disney content posted on the Megavideo site.

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Megaupload proves users were legit

In light of Megaupload's upcoming court case in which the US Government has accused Megaupload of being a hotbed for illegal users, Mega has proved the majority of it's users were legitimate. Megaupload has released that a large sum of it's users were actually belonging to US Officials including over 15,000 accounts held by US Military. Of the accounts held by US Officials these included accounts held by members of the FBI, Homeland Security, NASA and the Senate.

Megaupload attorney's and users are fighting hard for the data to not be deleted at this time however there is no certainty at this time if the information will be saved.

In other Megaupload news Kim Dotcom and his wife Mona welcome their twin baby girls into the world. The twin girls are reported to be a healthy weight at 5.3 and 6.2lbs however their names have not yet been released.
This is the fourth and fifth children for the couple. While Kim Dotcom is still under house arrest leading up to his extradition case the founder can live comfortably with his $50,000 a month spending limit. When doctor's asked if the couple would like to keep the placenta Kim Dotcom responded "yes, and please send it to the FBI for forensic analysis so they can verify there is no pirate DNA ;-)". If nothing else Megaupload founder has kept his sense of humour.

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Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why

For the first time since his arrest in January, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is responding to allegations in what he calls the “MPAA-sponsored” indictment. Eager to fight back, Dotcom refutes several “nonsense” claims made by the Government. In addition, he shows that Mega wasn’t a big bad pirate haven, but a legitimate service that may have been shutdown for political reasons.

For a man who’s the main defendant in one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, Kim Dotcom is surprisingly composed.

The Megaupload founder is convinced of his innocence, and instead of letting fear or anger get to him, he is excited. Deep into the night, Dotcom digs through heaps of paperwork, collecting evidence that shows how he was framed by the US Government.

Talking to TorrentFreak by phone, he gives example after example of why he thinks the indictment twists the truth. While Megaupload’s lawyers are still working on the first motion in response to the indictment, he agreed to exclusively share the first details with us.
Stealing from 50 Cent?

One of the claims of the US Government is that Kim Dotcom personally shared copyrighted files on Megaupload, so-called ‘direct infringement’. He supposedly shared a link to a 50 Cent song, but the indictment fails to include the necessary context.

“A link distributed on December 3, 2006 by defendant DOTCOM links to a musical recording by U.S. recording artist ’50 Cent’. A single click on the link accesses a Megaupload.com download page that allows any Internet user to download a copy of the file from a computer server that is controlled by the Mega Conspiracy,” the indictment reads.

Dotcom told TorrentFreak that the file in question wasn’t infringing at all. He explained that he actually bought that song legally, and that he uploaded the file in private to test a new upload feature. He quickly picked a random file from his computer, which turned out to be this song.

“The link to the song was sent using the private link-email-feature of Megaupload to our CTO with the file description ‘test’. I was merely testing the new upload feature,” Dotcom said.

“The URL to this song had zero downloads. This was a ‘private link’ and it has never been published,” he added.

Aside from the above, Dotcom told us that the US may not even have jurisdiction over the issue. The song was uploaded from a Philippine IP-address to a European server. Also, since the upload occurred in 2006, the statute of limitations renders the evidence unusable.

Dotcom further said that the Louis Armstrong song mentioned in the indictment wasn’t an infringement either.

“I also bought the Louis Armstrong song that was sent to me by a co-defendant via the private link-email-feature of Megaupload. According to the Department of Justice I am an infringer, and this is all they got? One song?”

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Mega has become a re-election pawn in the White House / MPAA affair. If I was a Republican presidential candidate I would investigate this, Dotcom says.

However, this gift isnt as free as it may seem. Dotcom says that the witch hunt against his company is putting the US technology sector at a disadvantage.

The MPAA / White House corruption has weakened US technology leadership. Internet businesses, hosting, cloud, payment processors, ad networks, etc. are going to avoid the US, Dotcom told TorrentFreak.

There is an opportunity for liberal countries to welcome those businesses with better laws, he predicts. The loss of IT business & jobs in the US will substantially outweigh the inflated losses claimed by the MPAA & their billionaire club.

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The MPAA / White House corruption has weakened US technology leadership. Internet businesses, hosting, cloud, payment processors, ad networks, etc. are going to avoid the US

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Megaupload user asks for his perfectly legal videos back

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a brief on behalf of an Ohio man in a federal court case brought by the United States against Kim Dotcom, founder and owner of the file-sharing locker Megaupload. The brief requested that Kyle Goodwin, and users like him, be allowed access to the files they had stored on the currently shuttered site.

Goodwin is a local high school sports reporter and the sole proprietor of the company OhioSportsNet, who stored his video footage on Megaupload.com as a backup to his video library on his hard drive. He had paid ¤79.99 (about $107) for a two-year premium membership. Just days before the government seized the site, Goodwin's hard drive crashed. The brief states that his lost videos include footage to make highlight reels for parents to send to their children's prospective colleges, and an unfinished full-length documentary about the Strongsville girls soccer team’s season.

While there is no way of telling how many Megaupload users like Goodwin stored legal files on the site, he is one of millions of users who can no longer access any of the information they stored there.

When the Feds shut down the file-sharing locker earlier this year, they seized more than 1,000 servers that Megaupload was leasing from hosting company Carpathia, including 525 servers in Virginia alone. Government authorities have been using the servers in the investigation of Dotcom and his company. Earlier this week, Carpathia announced that the 25 petabytes of Megaupload data stored on its servers have been costing the company $9,000 a day, and Megaupload has no way of paying its bills with its assets frozen.

According to the EFF, authorities told Carpathia that after it was done examining the servers and had copied portions of the data, the hosting company could delete the files and re-purpose its servers. Carpathia noted in a statement last week that it would like to allow Megaupload users to recover their data, but has struggled to find a way to do so.

"Despite our best efforts, the parties have been unable to work out a voluntary solution that meets the concerns of all the various parties who have claimed an interest in Megaupload’s data," Brian Winter, Chief Marketing Officer of Carpathia Hosting wrote. "As a result, Carpathia has filed a motion in federal court seeking the court’s guidance on how to proceed in resolving this matter." A hearing concerning this matter is set for next month.

The interests of Goodwin brought by the EFF represent the concerns of the millions of users who now can't access their data. “Mr. Goodwin files this brief in support of Carpathia’s Motion for Protective Order and requests that the Court implement a procedure to expedite the return of his rightful property, as well as the property of others similarly situated, stored on Megaupload’s servers,” the court document read, “The government itself created the problem of an overbroad seizure by utilizing a method that predictably encompasses innocent property.”

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It is no secret that the MPAA was a main facilitators of the criminal investigation against Megaupload. But while the movie studios have praised the actions of the US Government, they are not satisfied yet. Paramount Pictures vice president for worldwide content protection identified Fileserve, MediaFire, Wupload, Putlocker and Depositfiles as prime targets that should be shuttered next.

The file-hosting business has been in a permanent state of chaos since the Megaupload shutdown in January. Many sites were quick to remove their affiliate programs and some went as far as blocking visitors from the US entirely.

Its clear that site owners are concerned that their business might become a target, and if its up to the major movie studios this fear is justified. We continue to make criminal referrals, Paramount Pictures Alfred Perry said during the On Copyright conference in New York yesterday.

CNET reports that the Paramount Pictures produced a list of five rogue file-hosters, presented in a fancy graphic where Megaupload is crossed out. The prime targets on this shutdown list are Fileserve, MediaFire, Wupload, Putlocker and Depositfiles.

The movie studio claims that these rogue cyberlockers receive 41 billion page views a year, which translates to five views for every person on the planet.

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US government: We hear there's child porn on those Megaupload servers, judge!

Carpathia Hosting, which owns over 600 servers leased by Megaupload before the government shut down the file-sharing site, has a problem: those servers are worth serious money, but no one is paying the bills.

Megaupload wants the servers back to help with its defense, but with most of its assets seized by the federal government, it can't pay for them. Carpathia would normally wipe the servers and lease them to new clients, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation is demanding that legitimate users of the site be allowed to retrieve their personal data first. The Motion Picture Association of America doesn't want this to happen without assurances that its copyrighted content won't be retrieved and distributed again; besides, it might want the servers for a future lawsuit of its own. And the federal government yesterday announced that the servers “may contain child pornography,” which would render them "contraband" and limit Carpathia's options for dealing with them.

Carpathia originally housed the servers in a Virginia warehouse on which the government executed a search warrant back on January 19. After making forensic copies of selected servers, the government withdrew. Megaupload couldn't pay the bills, so Carpathia says it spent $9,000 a day in rent to house the servers it couldn't reuse. This quickly got expensive, so Carpathia trucked all the servers (at a cost, it says, of $65,000) and stuck them in some empty space it had in one of its own facilities. Now, stuck with all these servers, Carpathia wants a judge to compensate it for all the money it could be making.

The US government insists that the court has no real jurisdiction over the server issue. In a filing made late yesterday, the government argued that the EFF had highlighted an "unfortunate" situation, but one not before the court (even Megaupload's terms of service warned users not to count on the site as a sole repository for files). As for the MPAA, it hasn't even filed a civil lawsuit yet, and courts should not rule on "speculative matters affecting civil lawsuits that have not yet been filed (and may not be filed at all)." As for Carpathia's request for cash, the government suggests it doesn't deserve any. After all, it's free to wipe and re-lease the servers; the government already has its forensic evidence. The entire dispute is merely a "private contractual matter."

Well, sort of. When it comes to selling or renting the servers back to Megaupload—there the government draws the line. It doesn't want the servers to leave the court's jurisdiction and it worries that they could be used for criminal activity. In addition, "the government recently learned from multiple sources that the Carpathia Servers may contain child pornography, rendering the Carpathia servers contraband."

So Carpathia sits on its servers and waits for the judge's order it has requested. Simply wiping the servers could expose Carpathia to angry rightsholders who want the evidence for cases they intend to file, and to angry Megaupload users whose data would be gone for good. But keeping the hundreds of machines idle costs money, and transferring them to Megaupload—the only interested buyer—may not be possible.

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Kim Dotcom Lashes Out Against “Corrupt” US Government

The US judge handling the Megaupload case noted today that it may never be tried due to a procedural error, a comment that has sparked the anger of Megaupload’s founder. Kim Dotcom is furious with the US Government for destroying his businesses and rendering hundreds of people unemployed. According to Dotcom the case is the result of “corruption on the highest political level, serving the interests of the copyright extremists in Hollywood.”

Earlier today the news broke that a Megaupload trial may never happen because the US Government failed to serve the now defunct file-hosting company.

While some defendants might respond with relief upon hearing such news, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is only becoming more furious at the people who destroyed his businesses.

“The US government has terminated Megaupload, Megavideo and 10 other subsidiaries, including a company called N1 Limited that was developing a clothing line,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak.

“They destroyed 220 jobs. Millions of legitimate Mega users have no access to their files.”

If Judge O’Grady is to be believed all this damage could very well have been for nothing because the authorities simply can’t serve foreign companies. This could lead one to wonder whether the whole setup was to simply destroy Mega’s businesses.

This is certainly a theory Dotcom subscribes to, and it’s not the only dirty trick Megaupload’s founder believes the US Government is playing. The US is structurally denying Megaupload the chance to put up a fair fight.

“We are refused access to the evidence that clears us, we are refused funds to pay our lawyers, we are refused to pick the lawyers we want to represent us and have any chance for a fair trial,” Dotcom says.

For Megaupload the worst part is that the damage can’t be undone. The site has been completely destroyed as well as the plans to become a publicly traded company.

“We have already been served a death sentence without trial and even if we are found ‘not guilty’ which we will, the damage can never be repaired,” Dotcom says.

And why?

According to Megaupload’s founder it is quite clear that the Mega investigation was a ‘gift’ to Hollywood, facilitated by corrupt forces.

“This Mega takedown was possible because of corruption on the highest political level, serving the interests of the copyright extremists in Hollywood,” he says. “Mega has become a re-election pawn.”

Nevertheless, Dotcom is confident that these forces will eventually be exposed.

“It is just a matter of time until the truth comes out. We are working on that and we are making good progress,” Dotcom concludes.

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Op zaterdag 21 april 2012 12:30 schreef PiRANiA het volgende:

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Zieke shit.

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Op zaterdag 21 april 2012 13:49 schreef Blue_Panther_Ninja het volgende:

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Megaupload Prosecution Is Lawless and Unconstitutional, Law Professor Says

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Yet another law expert has slammed the US Government’s decision to launch a criminal case against Megaupload. Law Professor Eric Goldman argues that the Megaupload prosecution is a “depressing display of abuse of government authority” that ignores basic constitutional rights in order to protect private commercial interests.

In recent months many people have been baffled by the US Government’s decision to shutdown and prosecute Megaupload.

While the Department of Justice proudly presented the case as one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, critics claim the Government has gone too far.

Many law experts agree with this assessment and point out that Megaupload is a lot less guilty than portrayed by the authorities.

This weekend Eric Goldman, a Prof. at Santa Clara University School of Law, joined in with his comments. His attack on the US Government is scathing, describing the Megaupload prosecution as a “depressing display of abuse of government authority.”

Siding with Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom who lashed out against the Government earlier, the Prof. claims that the shutdown of the world’s most popular cyberlocker was a gift to the entertainment industry.

“The government’s prosecution of Megaupload demonstrates the implications of the government acting as a proxy for private commercial interests. The government is using its enforcement powers to accomplish what most copyright owners haven’t been willing to do in civil court,” Goldman writes.

“The revolving door between government and the content industry” and the “Obama administration’s desire to curry continued favor and campaign contributions from well-heeled sources,” are the main motivations Goldman cites.

According to the Professor, Megaupload should have never been taken offline. He claims that it’s a modern-day equivalent of the printing press.

“Megaupload’s website is analogous to a printing press that constantly published new content. Under our Constitution, the government can’t simply shut down a printing press, but that’s basically what our government did when it turned Megaupload off and seized all of the assets.”

“Not surprisingly, shutting down a printing press suppresses countless legitimate content publications by legitimate users of Megaupload,” Goldman adds.

In addition, by shutting the site down and arguing that all data can be destroyed, the authorities are destroying evidence and ignoring the constitutional rights of the millions of US citizens who stored data on Megaupload.

“The government’s further insistence that all user data, even legitimate data, should be destroyed is even more shocking. Destroying the evidence not only screws over the legitimate users, but it may make it impossible for Megaupload to mount a proper defense. It’s depressing our government isn’t above such cheap tricks in its zeal to win.”

Professor Goldman continues by pointing out that the Government has to prove “willful infringement” when they want to hold Megaupload accountable for the infringements of its users. This is going to hard, he argues, as Megaupload has several strong potential defenses.

“Whether it actually qualified for these is irrelevant; Megaupload’s subjective belief in these defenses should destroy the wilfulness requirement. Thus, the government is simply making up the law to try to hold Megaupload accountable for its users’ uploading/downloading,” Goldman writes.

In his closing arguments, Professor Goldman points out that actions like the Megaupload prosecution will only make the public more skeptical about the Government’s attempts to control the Internet on behalf of a few multi-billion dollar companies.

“In the end, the Megaupload prosecution demonstrates that SOPA advocates are inevitably going to win. The content owners’ ire toward ‘foreign rogue websites’ combined with the administration’s willingness to break the law, if necessary, to keep content owners happy, leads to lawless outcomes like the Megaupload prosecution and ICE’s domain name seizures,” he concludes.

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Op woensdag 30 mei 2012 19:22 schreef PiRANiA het volgende:
Megaupload Wins Crucial Evidence Disclosure Battle With US Govt. http://bit.ly/JulElc