Kim Dotcom is in mega big trouble

A brief history of Megaupload and its controversial founder Kim Dotcom. Find out how a teenage hacker built one of the largest websites in the world, which was eventually seized by the FBI for piracy.

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[prch]

I don't know why the entertainment industry is so angry. 500 mio. $ is less then Disney loses on a single movie these days.

[DaivG]

"It's always morally correct to pirate Adobe products."

-You have said the actual truth.

[a.iananda]

When big industries like Ubisoft says,
"Buying isn't owning" then you should remember "piracy isn't theft "!

[shioq.]

he didn't cost the entertainment industry a single penny. you can't prove people who watch pirated movies would EVER spend a dime on the movie if it wasn't free.

[RILDIGITAL]

Legalities aside, it's undeniable that his platform revolutionized the way we share large files.

[arnovan-]

Forgot to mention that the guy was the top Modern Warfare 3 player at one point and he even made a music video!

[mikeberezhkov]

Can I shut down Amazon by uploading "piracy" into their S3?

[TheDeceptiveHero]

Given the current state of the film industry, I’d say that by costing them $500M he spared us at least two audiovisual crimes against humanity.

[DavidBcc]

They also confiscated his mother's cars in Germany, even though they weren't his, and he didn't live in Germany. He's a political target.

[pocoloco]

Mega Upload, Rapidshare, 4Shared... what a time to be online.

[StefanReich]

3:20 He cost the entertainment industry $500M? That's like... 3 blockbuster movies. That's it?

[FunnyFenix]

So, basically, they want to send him to jail for profiting from human work without their permission or license, but it's totally legal for big tech companies to sell AI products trained on human work without their permission or license. This is fine.

[midorifox]

Glowies when a serial killer is on the loose: I sleep;
Glowies when someone pirates an old episode of a series nobody heard of: 007 levels of espionage to find the culprit and make an example of him.
I hate big corporation and big publishers.

[kingdededelicious]

they extradite him to court for "stealing intellectual property" yet streaming services are allowed to steal back their copies of films that people bought legitimately as soon as the servers go under

[MacCrunch]

This case pose compelling questions about the boundaries of internet freedom and copyright infection.

[PanoptesDreams]

As a Kiwi, I gotta say it was WILD watching the arrest and raid of Kim.

The fact that our 'SWAT' went in without Identifying Patches is Rookie AF. And one of the things used against them in court.

[mr.togrul--]

Is He the pirate king??? Next thing you know he's gonna say he put all his valuables and server passwords in One place, and encourage all pirates to find it, creating a new pirate era

[areck]

That guy litteraly made my childhood way better with his website lol Respect to him ! :D

[nipun]

Kids these days will never know the magic of the wild internet back then. And the glamor of these celebrities.

[UnbanMeNowOfficial]

It's fascinating how one innovation that served millions worldwide eventually fell into legal troubles. The debate on industry losses or whether piracy is actually theft are complex issues with no easy answers.