Of
course, no official of the United States or Hollywood executive would
admit that, but Kim Dotcom became a rare commodity. The MegaUpload
founder, after the service was closed down, is still promising more than
one could imagine.
First of all, Dotcom promised a kind of “retaliation” by rising from its own ashes, though this plan might cost him 400 million NZ dollars. Secondly, Kim recently claimed that he wants to give free broadband for the New Zealand.
Of course, American entertainment industry isn’t happy with Kim Dotcom and what he does, because he allegedly cost them around $500 million in lost revenues. That’s why MegaUpload was seized. This event, as you remember, made the news for quite some time, while revealing many irregularities, which were pointed out by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the judges in charge with the case.
At the moment, the US government wants Kim Dotcom’s head. This is why American prosecutors filed a case against Dotcom and his former colleagues in hope to extradite them. Still, the industry experts believe they would hardly succeed. Their fiasco revealed a lot of flaws – starting from a faulty search warrant and ending with the statements of people involved. Even New Zealand’s Prime Minister had to apologize to Kim Dotcom for unauthorized monitoring of his communications.
But how did Kim Dotcom ended up with becoming a commodity? Despite the fact that such services as Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft offer cloud-based solutions, and therefore could easily be used to violate copyright, it’s not likely for the American government to cut the branch under its own feet. If you doubt this, remember the example of YouTube: when the streaming portal was targeted by Viacom, the service managed to invoke the DMCA and continued to operate.
Industry experts, when comparing Napster with MegaUpload, are saying that their demise caused a never before seen effect. For example, in the case of Napster, it only took one lawsuit to begin an era of anti-mp3 downloading war. Still, it is unclear how this will end, and everyone will have to wait until March 2013, because it is the date when the extradition hearing was scheduled for.
First of all, Dotcom promised a kind of “retaliation” by rising from its own ashes, though this plan might cost him 400 million NZ dollars. Secondly, Kim recently claimed that he wants to give free broadband for the New Zealand.
Of course, American entertainment industry isn’t happy with Kim Dotcom and what he does, because he allegedly cost them around $500 million in lost revenues. That’s why MegaUpload was seized. This event, as you remember, made the news for quite some time, while revealing many irregularities, which were pointed out by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the judges in charge with the case.
At the moment, the US government wants Kim Dotcom’s head. This is why American prosecutors filed a case against Dotcom and his former colleagues in hope to extradite them. Still, the industry experts believe they would hardly succeed. Their fiasco revealed a lot of flaws – starting from a faulty search warrant and ending with the statements of people involved. Even New Zealand’s Prime Minister had to apologize to Kim Dotcom for unauthorized monitoring of his communications.
But how did Kim Dotcom ended up with becoming a commodity? Despite the fact that such services as Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft offer cloud-based solutions, and therefore could easily be used to violate copyright, it’s not likely for the American government to cut the branch under its own feet. If you doubt this, remember the example of YouTube: when the streaming portal was targeted by Viacom, the service managed to invoke the DMCA and continued to operate.
Industry experts, when comparing Napster with MegaUpload, are saying that their demise caused a never before seen effect. For example, in the case of Napster, it only took one lawsuit to begin an era of anti-mp3 downloading war. Still, it is unclear how this will end, and everyone will have to wait until March 2013, because it is the date when the extradition hearing was scheduled for.
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