Alas, poor Yorick, Megaporn is taken down (new window).

Given the amount of Modern Warfare 3 that guy had been playing, I doubt he even remembers what a female is.

/Alas, no new windows for you.

What's his Fark handle?

He sounds fat AND deluded.

Those "female inmates" aren't females, bub.

This guy is the living embodiment of the "You gonna get e-raped" supernerd stereotype that keeps old people up at night.

I thought Kim Dotcom was a chick that gave computer advice. Disappointed in actual content.

Yeah ... nah. Sceptical cat is HIGHLY sceptical.

The court case on this guy is going to be amusing. I hope they dig back into all the dirt from his time with those European companies.

Yeah, why would female criminals cozy up to a guy who, for the moment anyways, has lots and lots of money?

I tried to find a GIS picture of Dotcom that didn't make him look like a professional basement dweller. I failed.

More like, "I really don't want to be anyone's biatch, your honor."

When he gets raped, that judge will feel like a jackass.

/not really
//even women in prison have no interest in that guy.

Extraditing this guy to the U.S. is bullshiat. Why do you have to follow U.S. law if you don't live there? If they don't want his servers in the U.S. then shut down his servers in the U.S.

Yeah. Kim Schmitz. Watch this video (new window) to understand the kind of eurotrash you're dealing with, here.

Nem Wan: Extraditing this guy to the U.S. is bullshiat. Why do you have to follow U.S. law if you don't live there? If they don't want his servers in the U.S. then shut down his servers in the U.S.


because all the internets belong to the U.S., duh.

//manifest destiny was reallyabout the web, it just took some time to get here

///yes, I am kidding

HotIgneous Intruder: Yeah. Kim Schmitz. Watch this video (new window) to understand the kind of eurotrash you're dealing with, here.

I've had friends who meet this guy. They told me they could tell he was really dicey then. He kept telling them how he was the worlds biggest hacker, etc.

I can't imagine that someone who would self-apply a name like "Dotcom" would turn out to be a delusional, self-absorbed douche.

Legends may sleep, but they still go to PITA prison...

I have noooo sympathy for them or the Megaupload company. I feel bad for the innocent people who used their services, but not for them directly. Sleazebags the lot of them.

swankywanky: Nem Wan: Extraditing this guy to the U.S. is bullshiat. Why do you have to follow U.S. law if you don't live there? If they don't want his servers in the U.S. then shut down his servers in the U.S.


because all the internets belong to the U.S., duh.

//manifest destiny was reallyabout the web, it just took some time to get here

///yes, I am kidding

You kid, but it's no joke. The internet was invented by DARPA. We're just kids in the playground.

HotIgneous Intruder: swankywanky: Nem Wan: Extraditing this guy to the U.S. is bullshiat. Why do you have to follow U.S. law if you don't live there? If they don't want his servers in the U.S. then shut down his servers in the U.S.


because all the internets belong to the U.S., duh.

//manifest destiny was reallyabout the web, it just took some time to get here

///yes, I am kidding

You kid, but it's no joke. The internet was invented by DARPA. We're just kids in the playground.

The protocols were invented in the U.S. but that doesn't give the U.S. ownership or jurisdiction over foreign infrastructure, hardware, or software that uses those protocols.

They have co-ed prisons in New Zealand? Interesting.

Nem Wan: The protocols were invented in the U.S. but that doesn't give the U.S. ownership or jurisdiction over foreign infrastructure, hardware, or software that uses those protocols.

Bwah-hahahahaha.

Elzar: / mega douche, german style

oxymoron, perhaps

I'm not surprised he's afraid of advances from females. With all the time he's spent online, he probably assumes they're really fat 40-something men with creepy fetishes.

Corvus: HotIgneous Intruder: Yeah. Kim Schmitz. Watch this video (new window) to understand the kind of eurotrash you're dealing with, here.

I've had friends who meet this guy. They told me they could tell he was really dicey then. He kept telling them how he was the worlds biggest hacker, etc.

Well if we're talking about his size then yeah he could be the world's biggest hacker.

At first I was like...


But then...

I'm still curious if one of the legal farkers can clarify things.

Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about? I know a few times I'd heard people on forums mention their download link was bad cause it got removed.

Semi offtopic but I don't quite see why the person is in jail.

Legends may sleep ... but they never die.

Dude, take what you can get. Because once you get to the US you're not gonna have a choice.

Dude looks like a megaload, amirite?

Contribution Corsair: I'm still curious if one of the legal farkers can clarify things.

Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about? I know a few times I'd heard people on forums mention their download link was bad cause it got removed.

Semi offtopic but I don't quite see why the person is in jail.

Here's (new window) a quick rundown of why he's screwed. Including...

The indictment even includes chat logs with conversations between company executives, which include statements like: "we have a funny business . . . modern days pirates :)"

among other stuff. Here's (new window) the full indictment. I scanned it last time the story was brought up. Page 30 or so is when it starts to get bad for them. Long story short, they're screwed.

pag1107: Contribution Corsair: I'm still curious if one of the legal farkers can clarify things.

Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about? I know a few times I'd heard people on forums mention their download link was bad cause it got removed.

Semi offtopic but I don't quite see why the person is in jail.

Allegedly there was money laundering, drugs and all kinds of other crap going on besides the piracy charges.

Thank you sir, I've been lazy on digging about the story.

I dunno.. could happen

Contribution Corsair: pag1107: Contribution Corsair: I'm still curious if one of the legal farkers can clarify things.

Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about? I know a few times I'd heard people on forums mention their download link was bad cause it got removed.

Semi offtopic but I don't quite see why the person is in jail.

Allegedly there was money laundering, drugs and all kinds of other crap going on besides the piracy charges.

Thank you sir, I've been lazy on digging about the story.

If you pull the guy's wiki, he basically has a history of fraud, insider trading, and money laundering at bunch of different companies. Hence why when he came to New Zealand (before this current mess) he was denied citizenship.

It seems like the Feds were really on him for all the offenses mentioned above and someone realized "Hey that anti piracy law gives us an easy in to grab the servers and get evidence."

pag1107: Contribution Corsair: I'm still curious if one of the legal farkers can clarify things.

Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about? I know a few times I'd heard people on forums mention their download link was bad cause it got removed.

Semi offtopic but I don't quite see why the person is in jail.

Allegedly there was money laundering, drugs and all kinds of other crap going on besides the piracy charges.

If the money laundering, drugs and so on, was what it was all about, why take down a website he happens to own? Surely if that was taken down and the contents selectively copied for evidence, that suggests it was about either piracy (which would suggest the site was ignoring DMCA takedowns presumably), or child porn that wasn't been taken down when the site was notified about it (seems more likely given the FBI has been a lot more involved/active on that front).

xria: pag1107: Contribution Corsair: I'm still curious if one of the legal farkers can clarify things.

Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about? I know a few times I'd heard people on forums mention their download link was bad cause it got removed.

Semi offtopic but I don't quite see why the person is in jail.

Allegedly there was money laundering, drugs and all kinds of other crap going on besides the piracy charges.

If the money laundering, drugs and so on, was what it was all about, why take down a website he happens to own? Surely if that was taken down and the contents selectively copied for evidence, that suggests it was about either piracy (which would suggest the site was ignoring DMCA takedowns presumably), or child porn that wasn't been taken down when the site was notified about it (seems more likely given the FBI has been a lot more involved/active on that front).

Someone posted the indictment. Your answers are in there.

Contribution Corsair: Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about?

From what I read on Ars Technica, employees blew it on plausible deniability by downloading / trading pirated stuff themselves, IMing about how much of their stuff was pirated, etc.

ConConHead: I have noooo sympathy for them or the Megaupload company. I feel bad for the innocent people who used their services, but not for them directly. Sleazebags the lot of them.

Yeah, I hate Facebook too.

Gaseous Anomaly: Contribution Corsair: Isn't there some plausible deniability in the fact that MU was pretty much just a "upload it with whatever filename you want" place and would strip out downloads that were notified about?

From what I read on Ars Technica, employees blew it on plausible deniability by downloading / trading pirated stuff themselves, IMing about how much of their stuff was pirated, etc.

They outsourced some of their storage to Virginia. After that, the Feds had them.

/Stupid. lazy mistake.
//Betcha the next Megaupload-esque site won't do that.
///And there will be another file sharing site.
////Far too much money involved.

What's puzzling is that Germany has collectively despised the guy for at least a decade since he was convicted of embezzlement, insider trading and cost well over 200 people their jobs. He gets trashed endlessly in the German media so he leaves for Thailand, New Zealand, etc.

Yet large swaths of Americans seem to deify the guy online like he's some kind of pirate-hero. It's utterly bizarre.

Nem Wan: HotIgneous Intruder: swankywanky: Nem Wan: Extraditing this guy to the U.S. is bullshiat. Why do you have to follow U.S. law if you don't live there? If they don't want his servers in the U.S. then shut down his servers in the U.S.


because all the internets belong to the U.S., duh.

//manifest destiny was reallyabout the web, it just took some time to get here

///yes, I am kidding

You kid, but it's no joke. The internet was invented by DARPA. We're just kids in the playground.

The protocols were invented in the U.S. but that doesn't give the U.S. ownership or jurisdiction over foreign infrastructure, hardware, or software that uses those protocols.

It's a set of agreements in place between countres that allow for extradition. A sort of tit-for-tat. If he broke laws in the US, then he can be tried here. Doesn't matter where his house is.

I'd really hate to be the guy who had to use the guy who uses the bathroom after he takes a megadownload.