Poor old megaupload

Cleat Eastwood

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

For the land of the free, they don't much like freedom - I wonder when the good guys at the FBI will target youtube, that hotbed of copyright infringement.

EKIMIKE

They won't target Youtube. Youtube do a pretty good job on censorship as it is and moreover have created some pretty lucrative advertising space for the corporate interest.

Unfortunately Megaupload didn't bend far enough for the corporate interest. They attempted censorship but offered no more.

The scary thing here is how the rule of law can be bastardised by the law itself - the law of Intellectual Property. There are legal insiders and legal outsiders. Megaupload were in the latter category. So are me and you.

The land of the free, the 'American Dream' - it's all a sham, propaganda for the compliant masses if you will.

EKIMIKE

If you thought PIPA and SOPA were bad check out this:

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/p ... n-bill-law
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-secur ... ention-law

This is LAW. Not conspiracy theory or scaremongering, LAW.

Gizmodo

Sorry, but anyone who changes his name to Kim Dotcom deserves to be arrested. :?

afx237vi

Well if the US authorities can already shut down one of the world's biggest websites with the laws they already have, makes me wonder what the point of all that SOPA business was.

Anyway, Megaupload and all the other one-click hosters were a pain in the bum to use.

daviesee

What I don't understand is how America can command foreign justice systems to arrest non-US citizens living outside the US.
Did the NZ authorities really want to arrest them?
And on what charges?

EKIMIKE

Isn't that partly to do with extradition treaties. I'm unsure of the situation between USA/NZ but i know for a fact that the treaty the UK has with the USA pretty much forces us to extradite wanted persons. It's an unbalanced treaty and clearly characterised as so by the actual numbers.

It is astonishing how the USA can wield so much power in that respect. I guess the main levers are based in economics, be that consumer goods trade, weapons trade, natural resources trade, Investment, Corporate interests e.t.c. On the other hand it could be, ashamedly so, related to 'terrorism' which has broadly manifested itself as Islamophobia (obviously not in the case of Megaupload).

The two pillars of extradition appear to be: laws relating to Terrorism(Islamophobia); and laws relating to IP(Corporate Interests). Let's hope for everyone's sake that Mitt Romney, the Islamophobic Corporatist doesn't get chosen by the GOP as their Presidential Candidate, let alone elected as President.

daviesee

I get extradition.
I get anti-terrorism.

Trouble is that they are using it for anything they want.

Anybody know the numbers of US citizens extradited out of the US?

I am guessing that it will be a very round number. :evil:

Peddle Up!

daviesee wrote:

What I don't understand is how America can command foreign justice systems to arrest non-US citizens living outside the US.

The world's top 7 largest military budgets in 2010

Do you feel lucky punk?

daviesee

Sure about thse figures?

http://www.aneki.com/richest.html

And China has been buying up Dollars so these figures are skewed.
The U.S.'s days of domination are over. They just don't know it yet.

Peddle Up!

daviesee wrote:

Sure about thse figures?

http://www.aneki.com/richest.html

And China has been buying up Dollars so these figures are skewed.
The U.S.'s days of domination are over. They just don't know it yet.

Edited to clarify. Thanks.

daviesee

Makes more sense now!
I still think their days of being the superpower are numbered though.

Especially if they keep spending money on weapons like that.

Then again, they may decide that they may as well use them................