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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Man this chaps my hide

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ortmann was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months while van der Kolk was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months. Each had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison but argued they should be allowed to serve their sentences in home detention.

Does the punishment fit the "crime"?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of the people who need to be in jail to protect us from them seem to never go, and they are busy busting people like these guys and Ross Ulbricht who were actually advancing use of technology.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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] 11 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Considering copyright shouldn't exist, then obviously not. These people did nothing but copy data that happened to be censored by "property laws" that are based on a flawed definition of what people can actually own.