• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    4 months ago

    He is a pretty shitty person, but no one deserves to rot in prison for up to 150 years for fucking copyright infringement 15 years ago, regardless of scale.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    This isn’t about justice, this is about billionaires paying enough to make an example out of him.

    MEGAUpload cooperated with law enforcement when they asked. The charges were trumped up by the record labels. And it’s likely they were less afraid of the piracy and more afraid of the new free music launch featuring a bunch of migrating artists.

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Damn. The MegaUpload “ringleader” is getting extradited from NZ to the US to serve a 30+ year sentence. Or at least stand trial for it there?

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      3 months ago

      That guy was probably 20 at least when it started, it seems like it’s been 20 years. He’ll probably doesn’t have 30 years to live.

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        3 months ago

        A 40 or even 50 year old having to live the rest of their life behind bars sounds pretty crappy

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          3 months ago

          It is but what the actual fuck. Haven’t they bothered him enough. He should just make an AI and say he planned it all along. I’m so sick of the US bullying everyone.