FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom 241
avxo writes "According to an article on the New Zealand Herald, Kim Dotcom says his team has evidence showing that the Department of Homeland Security served a search warrant on Megaupload in 2010, forcing it to preserve pirated movies. According to Mr. Dotcom, those preserved movies are the center of the latest legal battle. 'When the FBI applied to seize the Megaupload site in 2012, it said the company had failed to delete pirated content and cited the earlier search warrant against the continued existence of 36 of the same 39 files.' He added: '[t]he FBI used the fact the files were still in the account of the ... user to get the warrant to seize our own domains. This is outrageous.'"
Actually.. (Score:0, Funny)
.That's what they said they did...
Real truth is... They had too much kiddie porn on their servers, So they decided to 'mitigate the problem' by offloading the 'least questionable' material off their servers.
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:4, Funny)
whoops. I got Dotcom mixed up with, uh, Julian Assange (who I believe is an AU citizen, yes?). I'll just go back to nursing this booze now.
Yeah Julian is one of us. In fact I know a guy who had the pleasure of having his system broken in to by Mr Assange. For a geek he is strangely concerned about what people say about him. Most of us don't give a shit.
Re:How can this happen in "The nation of Laws?" (Score:0, Funny)
Oh, where ever will we find an immigrant willing to take your place?
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:4, Funny)
If everyone did this, the game would change.
Here is the formula for an average, per-citizen, rate of consumption of entertainment, in movies per year, as a function of geek rage:
cons(rage) := 0.999*10 + 0.001*(1/rage)
What is the limit of this function with rage going to infinity?
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:5, Funny)
If everyone did this, the game would change.
Here is the formula for an average, per-citizen, rate of consumption of entertainment, in movies per year, as a function of geek rage:
cons(rage) := 0.999*10 + 0.001*(1/rage)
What is the limit of this function with rage going to infinity?
OVER 9000!
You failed to realize rage is an irrational number roughly equivalent to 0.0001111111111 (repeating).
The limit of your function expressed in the bironic form (Internet Math Notation), is approximately equivalent to: 1!!!11!!11!!!1one111111!11
(whereby "!" replaces zeros, "one" is the fractional separator, to the right of which is the binary exponent).
Protip: There is always a smarter smartass. Get on my level.
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:5, Funny)
Just download LOIC and you're sorted (considered part of the Axis, that is..)
Anything that requires you to use Mono is certainly Axis-worthy.
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:5, Funny)
I think you'll find the Australian authorities had nothing to do with it, since New Zealand is a completely separate country to Australia! ;)
Yes, the ignorance around here is disgraceful. While New Zealand hasn't covered itself in glory here, that pales in insignificance next to Australia's crime of having given Adolf Hitler to the world. Not to mention Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:4, Funny)
Ehhh - someone will come along directly to tell me that I've lost all credibility with the word sheeple. Whatever . .
Sounds a bit like you're ready at a moments notice to don spandex and take to the rooftops of Gotham, to setup a laptop and tweet. The sheeple thing, while bring trite, isn't the main reason I'd suspect you of being just another armchair revolutionary. Telling us what you make happen is a start, and why you're different from the legion of V/Neo wannabes who lurk in the shadows, ever vigilant and poised ready to write a blog post or something similar.
Re:Nowhere fast (Score:5, Funny)
Changed the name. Don Hitler wasn't playing very well in my career writing erotic fiction for overweight women.