RIP Megaupload

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17812175

The fate of what exactly will happen with the Megaupload data will begin April 26th

...25 petabytes?

edited 23rd Apr '12 1:13:55 PM by ohsointocats

Well, I have two hand-sized portable hard drives that total up to 1 terabyte together. 25 thousand of those would be around 25 petabytes — assuming they aren't using more advanced types that can hold even more data within the same physical size.

Yeah, a Petabyte is about 1 million gigabytes...

Is there even enough money in the world for a single person to afford that much data?

Consider how cheap 1GB flash drives and memory cards are now. One million of those isn't exactly a forbidding amount of money.

Kim Dot Com is porbably gonna become the Brave Heart of the internet.

"They may take down our sites, but theyll never take our data!!!"

edited 23rd Apr '12 8:06:08 PM by Baff

Oh, no: that last thing we need is him dressing up as Mel Gibson in Braveheart! <shudders>

Sweetie, he's just the wrong season to carry that colour off, don't you think?

Hot.

So when is the trial (if any) set?

We're waiting for this to be resolved.

Yes, get on with it!

Don't you know, the trial might not even happen

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-trial-may-never-happen-judge-says-120420/

I believe I posted this earlier

edited 19th May '12 6:06:22 PM by primeyandereheika

It still depends if the MAFIAA can find the way to wriggle that...really though it's best waiting for the official announcement...

DUDE

The department of justice acted recklessly.

Good thing NZ has a half descent judicial system.

"in clear violation of its due process rights" indeed.

<pops out partying-whatchamacallits for celebration>

Yay, this is awesome news. I hope Megaupload wins this.

But even if they do... government agencies and the corporations that end up calling their shots never seem to face any consequence for their crimes. People get tortured or killed and no one has to answer for it. No one will have to answer for this.

Well thats because "American Exceptionalism" thinking has made it practically impossible for any sort of legally binding international oversight to be exerted over the American judicial system, or for there to be any serious initiative to reform.

I mean... even the Europeans have to answer to the EU Court of Human Rights.

Japan would be another example... if soo many of their politicians and corporate members didn't commit suicide when publicly dragged trough the mood.

edited 2nd Jun '12 7:26:18 PM by Baff

The New Zealand government had to be cooperating with the US in the first place for all of this to occur. It was New Zealand officials that went to arrest him! I'm wondering what exactly they showed the New Zealanders to get their cooperation.

Just a request for extradition filed through diplomatic channels, more than likely...

In the US, when a request occurs, and is approved by the state department, the individual is arrested and then taken to court for a judge to determine whether extradition is warranted... I assume that the situation is, while not exactly the same, similar in New Zealand.

@primeyandereheika: I seriously doubt that anyone involved in the raid was expecting to convict Megaupload, though. That wasn't really the point; the intent of this was to harass Megaupload and hit every other file site on the internet with a chilling effect. It was essentially the criminal-law version of a SLAPP, predicated on the fact that your due process rights mean a right to a long, expensive trial, not a right to not be harassed.

Megaupload is out a hell of a lot of money, which they almost certainly cannot recover from the FBI or anyone else, they've been down for months, and everyone else is on notice that this could happen to them. Sounds like a U.S. victory to me.

@Baff: Don't confuse American exceptionalism with Cold War realpolitik. America is above international law because of the latter, not the former.

Didn't they charge Megaupload with money laundering?