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Topic: Kim Dotcom Mansion: Press conference 2013-01-19 GMT (Read 20489 times)

legendary
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I hope he remembers to encrypt his emails this time, instead of using US servers and asking his employees where he can find the latest pie-rat DVDrip in cleartext
Are you saying that that is what they are trying to extradite Dotcom on?  Something that probably 50% of the internet using public is guilty of themselves?  If so, it's small wonder that the US is in no hurry to produce their evidence of his evildoing and the extradition is dragging on.
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Basically that is their "proof", they seized megauploads US servers and inside were a bunch of juicy employee emails where they discussed where to find pirate uploaded movies and music instead of taking them down. It is of course, pretty flimsy which leads me to believe they simply raided megaupload out of existence solely on the insistence of movie/music industry lobbyists and don't really have any plans to actually extradite him and are instead playing the delaying game, where a country with endless resources can keep throwing BS charges and delaying court proceedings until you give up because all your money went to lawyers.
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I hope that from here forward the Kiwi's can find the testosterone needed to tell the media corporate (and their US state-level hired muscle) where to stick it.  It would go some distance toward healing the wound of being outed as the pathetic lick-spittle.

I dearly hope that one day nation-states such as Iceland, Ecuador, and (hopefully) New Zealand are paid back with more than simply a nod of respect for their willingness to stand up to power.  It seems not outside the realm of possibility in an increasing globalized world where capital flows can be at least in some part influenced by individuals.

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By happenstance, I find myself in need of sending funds to a mom-n-pop class manufacturer in New Zealand at this time.  What an incredible hassle!

It is an ironic state of affairs that I prefer to use my credit card to in many transactions which are possible using Bitcoin because the Bitcoin ecosystem is so rife with shady flakes.  Standard businesses who I trust and would love to use Bitcoin to patronize (because of the sad state of our heavily controlled and exploited mainstream payment methods) have never heard of the Bitcoin solution.

legendary
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May Bitcoin be touched by his Noodly Appendage
hero member
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I hope he remembers to encrypt his emails this time, instead of using US servers and asking his employees where he can find the latest pie-rat DVDrip in cleartext


Are you saying that that is what they are trying to extradite Dotcom on?  Something that probably 50% of the internet using public is guilty of themselves?  If so, it's small wonder that the US is in no hurry to produce their evidence of his evildoing and the extradition is dragging on.

OTOH, it would hardly be the first time that someone was singled out for a petty indiscretion and subject to absurd hardship for political reasons.  Some people commit suicide like Aaron Swartz and some people stand and fight back like Kim Dotcom.


Basically that is their "proof", they seized megauploads US servers and inside were a bunch of juicy employee emails where they discussed where to find pirate uploaded movies and music instead of taking them down. It is of course, pretty flimsy which leads me to believe they simply raided megaupload out of existence solely on the insistence of movie/music industry lobbyists and don't really have any plans to actually extradite him and are instead playing the delaying game, where a country with endless resources can keep throwing BS charges and delaying court proceedings until you give up because all your money went to lawyers.

If megaupload made so much money why aren't they copying his business model instead of trying to put him in jail. Instead we get terrible geo-IP restricted videos riddled with forced ads which is the industry answer to piracy. It's like when South Park decided to stream their own episodes for free to combat piracy, but with so many greedy middlemen and cable companies it's impossible if you're in Canada or somewhere else to watch the episodes without jumping through hoops so people still pirate them, because it's easier.
legendary
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I hope he remembers to encrypt his emails this time, instead of using US servers and asking his employees where he can find the latest pie-rat DVDrip in cleartext


Are you saying that that is what they are trying to extradite Dotcom on?  Something that probably 50% of the internet using public is guilty of themselves?  If so, it's small wonder that the US is in no hurry to produce their evidence of his evildoing and the extradition is dragging on.

OTOH, it would hardly be the first time that someone was singled out for a petty indiscretion and subject to absurd hardship for political reasons.  Some people commit suicide like Aaron Swartz and some people stand and fight back like Kim Dotcom.

Bringing things back to monetary science terms, fiat is backed by force of law (in my definition of it.)  And the system of laws and justice is falling apart insofar as it is increasingly working well for certain groups and increasingly poorly for others.  That is why I have little faith in the ability of our modern financial systems to survive.  The backing is simply falling apart.   This in turn has me especially interested in alternative which are backed by other things such as mathematics and quantum electrodynamics.

hero member
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I hope he remembers to encrypt his emails this time, instead of using US servers and asking his employees where he can find the latest pie-rat DVDrip in cleartext
legendary
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Yeah he has done some dodgy shit in the past, however the way that NZ police got bent over by the FBI to raid him illegally is considerably funny haha

I fail to see the funniness in the world bending to US pressure.
You fail to be a US citizen.
donator
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Yeah he has done some dodgy shit in the past, however the way that NZ police got bent over by the FBI to raid him illegally is considerably funny haha

I fail to see the funniness in the world bending to US pressure.
sr. member
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Yeah he has done some dodgy shit in the past, however the way that NZ police got bent over by the FBI to raid him illegally is considerably funny haha
legendary
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and it looks like kim dot com is still winning the fight...
i always wonder why nobody killed this scum/scam-bag yet...
seems hes very good @ fooling the usual humans.

It would be a pretty elaborate hoax if the grief heaped on Dotcom and his friends were faked.  That lends strength to the hypothesis that they are, at least at this time, the real deal.

I, for one, greatly appreciate the architectural lines that Mega is developing along.  It is the 'right' way to do cloud stuff, and it surprises me that most businesses could even legally accept doing business in the way that most cloud services offer.  That is, allowing data access to the cloud service provider.  When I used S3, I had to roll-my-own along the lines of what Mega does natively, and it was an expensive hassle which was mostly suitable for highly automated data storage and transfer needs.

If/when Mega gets e-mail and shared documents integrated I will be very keen to use their service and happy to pay them.  That I can do so with Bitcoin is an added bonus.

im talking about the past of him, you should inform yourself what he did Wink anyway thats the wrong thread, you can contact me if you wanna talk about it more.
legendary
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and it looks like kim dot com is still winning the fight...
i always wonder why nobody killed this scum/scam-bag yet...
seems hes very good @ fooling the usual humans.

It would be a pretty elaborate hoax if the grief heaped on Dotcom and his friends were faked.  That lends strength to the hypothesis that they are, at least at this time, the real deal.

I, for one, greatly appreciate the architectural lines that Mega is developing along.  It is the 'right' way to do cloud stuff, and it surprises me that most businesses could even legally accept doing business in the way that most cloud services offer.  That is, allowing data access to the cloud service provider.  When I used S3, I had to roll-my-own along the lines of what Mega does natively, and it was an expensive hassle which was mostly suitable for highly automated data storage and transfer needs.

If/when Mega gets e-mail and shared documents integrated I will be very keen to use their service and happy to pay them.  That I can do so with Bitcoin is an added bonus.

legendary
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and it looks like kim dot com is still winning the fight...
i always wonder why nobody killed this scum/scam-bag yet...
seems hes very good @ fooling the usual humans.
legendary
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Touchdown
Accepting bitcoins is great.  It can be a huge PITA paying for premium accounts sometimes.
sr. member
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and it looks like kim dot com is still winning the fight...
legendary
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I actually believe this is an unlosable war. It's just the timescale that could be a bitch ...

You know what they say;  Nearly half of those who enter a war exit it with an unexpected lose.


legendary
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I actually believe this is an unlosable war. It's just the timescale that could be a bitch ...

You know what they say;  Nearly half of those who enter a war exit it with and unexpected lose.

full member
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The amazing coincidences just keep piling up, don't they? Mega is announced with great fanfare, then just as the the first set of affiliates start to get their PayPal accounts frozen all of a sudden a new bitcoin payment processor nobody's ever heard of before opens for business and partners with a new voucher affiliate just in time.

Lol, that is really exciting to hear.
legendary
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The amazing coincidences just keep piling up, don't they? Mega is announced with great fanfare, then just as the the first set of affiliates start to get their PayPal accounts frozen all of a sudden a new bitcoin payment processor nobody's ever heard of before opens for business and partners with a new voucher affiliate just in time.
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
legendary
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And now.. a tweet from Vikram Kumar the new Mega boss:

"Wondering why there hasn't been more media interest in zipbit https://zipbit.co/  NZ's very own Bitcoin merchant platform"

https://twitter.com/vikram_nz/status/300786385026183170


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