Original WinUAE author Mathias Ortmann arrested in MU raid

Well, looks like Mathias finally gets to post bail. Still, doesn't sound like fun times for him.

The co-founder of Megaupload has been freed on bail by a judge in New Zealand. Mathias Ortmann will be the subject of strict conditions including no Internet access. The US will now rely on a United Nations treaty to extradite the Mega team. Separately, it was revealed that the FBI remotely monitored last month’s raids and congratulated New Zealand police on their work.
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http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-co-founder-released-on-bail-120215/
 
Megaupload fight back.
They've filed a huge motion which basically contends that the US govt is over reaching, is full of sh!t and is misapplying its own laws - and I believe that is all true. Would be nice to see the US govt and the entertainment industry fall on their arse over this. Guess they just assumed that if they froze all the assets then Megaupload would not be able to defend themselves.
 
Kim Dotcom wins right to FBI files

plus a customer is fighting back:
CUSTOMERS FIGHT FOR FILES

A former customer of Dotcom's internet site, Megaupload, has asked a US federal court to return his personal files from the FBI's seized evidence.

Video maker Kyle Goodwin and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed the motion last week stating it was the court's job to champion the cause of innocent parties caught up in the legal battle between the US government and Dotcom.

While some of the content stored on the seized Megaupload servers did contain material that might be ruled as copyright infringing, a portion was original work created by the site's customers, like Goodwin.

The switching off of all the site's content meant customers lost access to their personal content without warning.

In filing the legal documents the EFF said it "is of paramount importance" people like Goodwin were reunited with their data, "not just to preserve Goodwin's rights, but to address the government's apparent disregard for the effects its increasing use of domain and other digital seizure mechanisms may have on the innocent users of cloud computing services".

The campaigning group added: "Given that the use of cloud computing services is already widespread and poised to grow exponentially in the next few years, this court should establish procedures to ensure that such innocent users do not become regular collateral damage."
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this isn't the "entertainment industry", it's the UNtalented businessmen who leach off of the work and sweat off TALENT because they can't get a job. :cool:

If musicians and film makers eliminate the middleman and just make money directly from the public it's those scum businessmen who are all in a dither about it. I hope they get reamed.
 
Would be nice to see the US govt and the entertainment industry fall on their arse over this.
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How? The lawyers for the MAFIAA already got what they wanted. Megaupload knocked off the internet in a way that it's not likely to come back from. The rest is left for the taxpayers to sort out.
 
ilwrath said:
How? The lawyers for the MAFIAA already got what they wanted. Megaupload knocked off the internet in a way that it's not likely to come back from. The rest is left for the taxpayers to sort out.
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But that's just one company - and if they can't get a successful prosecution then anyone who wants to start up a Megaupload type service will have some precedent. It looks like they are also failing to get that "easy extradition" thing happening.
 
DropBox recently added a feature to share your stored data. Sounds a lot like MegaUploads business model, but without the in your face attitude.
 
NZ and Kim Dotcom are unraveling Echelon. It seems that this once super secret highly integrated giant signals intelligence gathering and sharing apparatus is being used to topple copyright violators. Massive multinational government subsidy to the US entertainment industry? It seems so. The EU was worried about this network a decade ago and suspected them in several cases of industrial espionage against European companies. Now the NZ "Government Communications Security Bureau" will be sitting in the dock to answer some questions about its role in the unlawful search warrant that nobbled big Kim.
 
MegaUpload case drags on and Kim launches a new web service called "mega". The interview with Kim is in the first half of this show on RT/
 
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