Posted: Jan 20, 2012 2:27 pm
Futurist and digital culture expert Mark Pesce says it is interesting that megaupload.com, which accounts for about 4 per cent of internet uploads, has been targeted by the authorities.
"You can five years in jail for uploading a Michael Jackson video, which is a year longer than the doctor who killed him will get."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-20/h ... nt/3784456
(Kim) Dotcom, Megaupload’s former CEO and current chief innovation officer, is a resident of Hong Kong and New Zealand and a dual citizen of Finland and Germany who had his name legally changed. The 37-year-old was previously known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor.
Two other German citizens and one Dutch citizen also were arrested and three other defendants – another German, a Slovakian and an Estonian – remain at large.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and digital rights online, said in a statement that the arrests set “a terrifying precedent. If the United States can seize a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright claim, what is next?”
http://techland.time.com/2012/01/20/u-s ... z1k0VKvlRE
New Zealand should have told the US to go fuck themselves.