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Thread ID: 122906 2012-01-19 20:48:00 Megaupload gone nedkelly (9059) PC World Chat
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1255070 2012-01-19 22:28:00 Damn shame. Good site that.
Plenty of others to choose from though.
They will NEVER control the internet.
And the fact that the US Justice Dept can just grab people from little old New Zealand like that is a bit worrying.

This is the same guy who gave us fireworks!
www.nzherald.co.nz
legod (4626)
1255071 2012-01-19 22:39:00 Yeah they say that there were illegal uploads there...which i know there were...but what about the Majority of Legal documents and files etc. i have a premium account there, and i had legal uploads, files which were too big to email what happens to my subscription fees i had a lifetime sub there.

It looks like you've lost your documents! (and your subscription fees)
Unless you call Obama.
So much for the Cloud.

Kim Schmitz made $42m last year.
Digby (677)
1255072 2012-01-19 22:50:00 One wonders if all those "documents" become evidence ... fred_fish (15241)
1255073 2012-01-19 23:05:00 That New Zealand Police are involved in a "crime" that is alleged from the United States is a disgrace.

So we are going to have the United States movie or music industry determine who can be arrested and hauled over to the States to stand trial.

More at Gizmodo here

(gizmodo.com)
Twelvevolts (5457)
1255074 2012-01-19 23:18:00 It was a good site, and was great for when trading vinyl needle drops from all over the world of long out of print and rare lp's. goodiesguy (15316)
1255075 2012-01-19 23:25:00 More here:-

www.nzherald.co.nz
Snorkbox (15764)
1255076 2012-01-19 23:28:00 A few Miami Vice fantasies fulfilled it seems ...
www.police.govt.nz


As this is a US Department of Justice led investigation comment from New Zealand Police and OFCANZ is limited to today's operation in the Auckland area.

The website of the US DOJ has further information about the investigation. www.justice.gov

Disgraceful!
"If you want to know what YOUR TAX DOLLARS are paying for, please see the US DOJ website"
fred_fish (15241)
1255077 2012-01-19 23:32:00 That New Zealand Police are involved in a "crime" that is alleged from the United States is a disgrace.

So we are going to have the United States movie or music industry determine who can be arrested and hauled over to the States to stand trial.

More at Gizmodo here

(gizmodo.com)

They bring in american law and now they bring in the americans. This can only get uglier.
rob_on_guitar (4196)
1255078 2012-01-19 23:43:00 [I] Bullshit. Piracy does not equal lost revenue, if the pirate had no intention to pay for the content anyway (which is often the case).

Nasty case of very selective morality here.

So shoplifting is not a crime either, if you had no intention of buying the desired bauble?

No matter how you try to sanitise or justify it, taking the property of others without colour of right, or intention to pay and thus depriving the rightful owner of lawful revenue, is and shall always be, theft.

The perpetrator is then, by definition, a thief, and a crime has been commited.

Shame!

Billy
Billy T (70)
1255079 2012-01-19 23:49:00 Oh ***! (ef-ef-ess)
Copyright infringement is NOT theft!
fred_fish (15241)
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