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Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, is to be extradited to the US, the New Zealand justice minister has said.

German-born Dotcom has New Zealand residency and has been fighting extradition to the US since 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion.

The justice minister, Paul Goldsmith, had signed an extradition order for Dotcom, a spokesperson said on Thursday.

“I considered all of the information carefully, and have decided that Mr Dotcom should be surrendered to the US to face trial,” Goldsmith said in a statement.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Dotcom said: “The obedient US colony in the South Pacific just decided to extradite me for what users uploaded to Megaupload,” in what appears to be a reference to the extradition order.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Making money with other people's content is shitty"

What reddit, xitter, meta and pretty every big corporation is doing right now with A.I.?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah that's also pretty shitty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Begin the 12 year extradition process.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you think being shitty and breaking the law are the same thing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think it only makes sense to criminally charge the CEO's of AI companies if the same thing is being done to Kim Dotcom

—Regardless, my initial post was meant to be satire

—Personally speaking I don't think all laws on the books are ethical, nor do I think everything that's unethical is against the law. With that in mind, I don't care if Kim Dotcom was an asshole because I can't earnestly argue on behalf of our Intellectual Property laws in the first place. I think they create a framework that is so far beyond reasonable, that my only response is to condone piracy as I have done since long before they raided his mansion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Except that when you post to Reddit, you grant them "a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit."

~ Sauce

[–] GunValkyrie 9 points 4 months ago

Except most people posting to social media aren't the ones that own the content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

oh its written somewhere, that makes it totally ok to steal content then, carry on

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah seriously. The whole idea that people can be fucked by fine print in some one sided agreement specifically designed to discourage people from reading is one of the dumbest things our species collectively goes along with.