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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Man this chaps my hide

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's worse:

Meanwhile Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, is continuing to fight the U.S. charges and threat of extradition. He has said he expects his former colleagues to testify against him as part of the deal they struck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I find it very dubious to conflate running a hosting service with piracy, even if piracy was all over it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Well, that's something he certainly knows a lot about, as he did the same way back when.