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2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Exaggeration207@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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U.S. prosecutors say Megaupload raked in at least $175 million — mainly from people who used the site to illegally download songs, television shows and movies -— before the FBI shut it down in early 2012 and arrested Dotcom and other company officers.

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[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole megaupload ordeal was one of the first times I remember feeling ashamed of my government's actions as a teenager. The cops used an illegal warrant to raid his home and illegally sent copies of his hard drives to the American FBI.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 18 points 1 year ago

It was an abuse of NZ's power in favour of a foreign government, I'm fine with him being charged thru a civil suit for profiting off piracy, but having the weight of the NZ government back foreign companies in a civil case was absurd.