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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fireship said this guy only costed Hollywood like 500m in "potential revenue" over the course of Megaupload's existence which is pretty low compared to the accusations hurled at piratebay which is still active to this day.

The rumor is the FBI only went after him when he tried to setup Mega for music (essentially what Spotify does right now) with a guaranteed 90% profit split for artists. So not even because Mega was popular for pirated content, but because he was super close to imploding the poor (and I think only 3) multibillion dollar record labels.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago

We really need a product like that for film actually.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Maybe I'm just completely ignorant of law, but how/why can he be extradited to a foreign country in this manner? Did he previously reside in and operate out of the US?

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He made US companies lose money, while making money himself. Thats all they need.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not even that, the service he operated might have been used such that US companies might have missed out on potential revenue.

That's it.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago

Ironically, companies made revenue using megaupload in the past.

I recall getting first party .exes from megaupload prior to the huge Google Cloud push.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 29 points 10 months ago

NZ has an extradition treaty with the the US.

Apparently potential copyright infringement is extradition worthy

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Many countries have extradition agreements.

Y’know those spam calls you get? Where they try to say they are the government? The reason they get away with that is that your country doesn’t have an extradition agreement with their country.

That’s a drastic oversimplification but it’s still true

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nope. The US just has that much influence.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

We essentially control Australia, it's fucking weird.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You know countries with extradition agreements can request extraditions in the other direction, as well?

If an american does a crime in Australia, but makes it back to the states, Australias government can also go "yeah so uuuh that guy killed a dude over here, gonna need him back for trial".

It's what makes it less likely people will just do crime all over other countries and then return home to escape punishment.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Right I was speaking about more than just extradition. https://youtu.be/ZOV8UeLkoAw

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Say what you will about ole Kim, but I spent a good chunk of time sailing the seven seas with his assistance.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

But why is his name Dotcom.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He changed it, used to be USENET

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Because he’s weird and we are legally allowed to change our names

[–] LemmyRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

If you speak Spanish, check this video: https://youtu.be/oUQ7_PK_pPw

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Because he changed it.

[–] PappyWappy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude was once the top MW2 player in the world

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Unsure if MechWarrior or Modern Warfare....

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Techbros will deadname you but will change their name to Kim Dotcom

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Has Kim been transphobic? Or is this just you generally hating techbros (not that I'd really consider him a techbro tbh)

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago

Me either.

When I think of techbros I think venture capital, no ethics, and will sell out anyone if the price is right.

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man I remember when MU went down. I was halfway through a rewatch of Gundam Wing - bad luck aside lol I couldn’t believe it was happening.

[–] hoxbug@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I was at a lan party having a break from the gaming and decided to browse a little bit, the news was blowing up about it.

[–] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The NWO are hard working people..

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

NWO? Brother???

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They meant NWA. What the relevance is, I don't know, but they aren't wrong.

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

(☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎ "Straight outta Compton

crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube

from a gang called n-- with attitude"

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

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