Kim Dotcom - piece of shit who makes money on the back of the scene, gets raided for (knowingly) doing so.
Somehow the combination of Kim being a piece of shit (whom no one would want to work for) and the very real possibility of the US Government going after anyone having anything to do with MegaUpload V2 resulted in the new product not being very secure/good. What a surprise.
Youtube has a legitimate use. Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content, and for Kim Dotcom to make money off it. I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse of the content we released.
Read the US Government's case. It's pretty clearly laid out. Megaupload employees were even sharing links to user-uploaded pirated content hosted on their servers.
Those who release pirated content in a particular way. All non-p2p warez groups.
There is no judgement on this case yet. As far as I know people are still considered inocent until they are judged guilty. And that is without going into all the shit that went on during the Megaupload story.
Are you insulted by Google's funneling of revenue through Bermuda, so they pay only a tiny fraction of the taxes they otherwise would? I'm more insulted by that than what Dotcom does.
Google is “flying a banner of doing no evil, and then they’re perpetrating evil under our noses,” said Abraham J. Briloff, a professor emeritus of accounting at Baruch College in New York who has examined Google’s tax disclosures.
Acting like the entire warez scene exists for the greater good and isn't profit driven is ridiculous. Yeah, there's honest people in it just for the fun of cracking and such, but there's also plenty of siteops selling leech and taking "donations" of hardware in return for leech credits. How do you think the major private torrent sites get their releases so fast nowadays? Releases used to spread onto public sites much slower.
At least Dotcom's service wasn't used /solely/ for piracy... you can attack his intentions all you want but the service itself was not illegal.
Irony meter explosion aside, I still pretty regularly run into entirely legitimate broken links to Megaupload from people just using it as an host for their own stuff.
Maybe the fact SOME programmers even work the Zetas. Unless, that is, you don't consider "copyright piracy" worse than drug trafficing the way the Zetas do...
I find this doubtful. At worst, you can find persons to "consult" to do the job properly, and they can move on to other projects post-launch.
Perhaps his negative reputation preceded him, but that was earned long before the US government's involvement with Megaupload. Heck, I hadn't seen anyone express sympathy for his operations ~until~ the US crackdown.
I don't see any normal (Dropbox, etc) cloud storage companies being designed to make hosting pirated content easy and lucrative for them. Believe it or not, most people want to make an honest living.
Dotcom is seen as criminal only because he isn't rich enough to make the rules, unlike the Fortune 100. Two wrongs don't make a right but neither should a double standard be applied to him.
