This is preposterous! How could good, hard-working American men and women in government positions and the military be using the unsurpassed evil that is MegaUpload?
Well, they did. According to creator, founder and now accused of copyright infringement Kim Dotcom, over 15000 active users of the service came from .gov, nav and .mil domains, as he told Torrentfreak.
In all fairness, Dotcom did at no point suggest that these people were using the service for infringing copyrighted material. The service made file-sharing available to countless individuals; files that may had just been documents, or personal videos or whatever, all of them now in danger of being lost with not a chance of retrieval.
But that's kind of the point, isn't it? The indictment made its damnedest to vilify Dotcom and his service with one-sided arguments that played straight into the hands of MPAA and RIAA. However, there are only two scenarios so far that have become abundantly clear: first and foremost, the authorities are trying to battle a beast they do not understand. There is no practical way to say, beyond any shadow of doubt, that the only purpose of Megaupload was to wilfully and purposefully not just enable, but encourage and partake in piracy and copyright infringement. I will be surprised if judge and jury in that trial understand what the fuck anyone's talking about, no matter how much they examine the case.
Secondly, it has become clear by now that the indictment is more akin to an attack. According to Dotcom's earlier comments regarding points of the aforementioned indictment, again on Torrentfreak, there are more than a few of them that are one-sided, badly-phrased or just purposefully incriminatory. It doesn't help that idiots like Chris Dodds have admitted to having at least some officials in their pockets and that the MegaUpload raid happened just two days after SOPA sank and the Internet Blackout took place. The stupidity that almost always comes with the arrogance of people with little sense of a world they do not understand, but rely on their money and connections, made a martyr out of Dotcom and his peers; they wanted a display of power and they exposed their own witch-hunt in the process.
I'm a lot less hopeful about the upcoming trial than Dotcom is, mainly because my misanthropy is my driving force. Money speaks louder than common sense. But regardless of the outcome, as time passes it becomes increasingly clear that this whole debacle is merely a scare tactic. A scare tactic that worked in its early stages, but should be stopped before it spreads.
Well, they did. According to creator, founder and now accused of copyright infringement Kim Dotcom, over 15000 active users of the service came from .gov, nav and .mil domains, as he told Torrentfreak.
In all fairness, Dotcom did at no point suggest that these people were using the service for infringing copyrighted material. The service made file-sharing available to countless individuals; files that may had just been documents, or personal videos or whatever, all of them now in danger of being lost with not a chance of retrieval.
But that's kind of the point, isn't it? The indictment made its damnedest to vilify Dotcom and his service with one-sided arguments that played straight into the hands of MPAA and RIAA. However, there are only two scenarios so far that have become abundantly clear: first and foremost, the authorities are trying to battle a beast they do not understand. There is no practical way to say, beyond any shadow of doubt, that the only purpose of Megaupload was to wilfully and purposefully not just enable, but encourage and partake in piracy and copyright infringement. I will be surprised if judge and jury in that trial understand what the fuck anyone's talking about, no matter how much they examine the case.
Secondly, it has become clear by now that the indictment is more akin to an attack. According to Dotcom's earlier comments regarding points of the aforementioned indictment, again on Torrentfreak, there are more than a few of them that are one-sided, badly-phrased or just purposefully incriminatory. It doesn't help that idiots like Chris Dodds have admitted to having at least some officials in their pockets and that the MegaUpload raid happened just two days after SOPA sank and the Internet Blackout took place. The stupidity that almost always comes with the arrogance of people with little sense of a world they do not understand, but rely on their money and connections, made a martyr out of Dotcom and his peers; they wanted a display of power and they exposed their own witch-hunt in the process.
I'm a lot less hopeful about the upcoming trial than Dotcom is, mainly because my misanthropy is my driving force. Money speaks louder than common sense. But regardless of the outcome, as time passes it becomes increasingly clear that this whole debacle is merely a scare tactic. A scare tactic that worked in its early stages, but should be stopped before it spreads.
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