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The internet entrepreneur faces several criminal charges in the US, including copyright infringement.
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It has been over a decade since they shut down MegaUpload and raided his house in NZ.
It’s hard to feel any sympathy for the guy at this point, he went from odd eccentric file sharing site founder, to adware distributor, all the way to misinformation spreading conspiracy theorist.
Sure, but this isn’t about the person; it’s about legal precidence.
I don’t know anything about the guy but your comment can be a tough pill to swallow sometimes
Oh, absolutely, which is the entire point sometimes.
For example, nobody likes terrorists or pedophiles, so make laws against them, because everyone can agree with punishing them. Only problem is, our system works on precidence and doesn’t limit those laws to exclusively terrorists and pedophiles, but they instead apply to everyone. An example of a bill like this that Congress has tried to pass in the past is to ban encryption, since it helps criminals communicate with each other, but non-criminal civilians also use encryption for communication, amomgst other things.
