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New Zealand? The courts here are pretty sensible. They have 0 issues with telling someone they are just being silly and to leave. They can still bring a case
by myrryr 9y ago
New Zealand?
The courts here are pretty sensible. They have 0 issues with telling someone they are just being silly and to leave.
They can still bring a case against you - but, it isn't expensive to defend like the US is.
- mirimir 9y agoDidn't protect Kim Dotcom.
- function_seven 9y agoOP isn’t looking for shield from the US Government. Your “didn’t protect” comments aren’t really relevant.
- MikeEhrmantraut 9y agoIn my case, I'm not involved in any copyright infringement. I'm merely trying to protect myself from frivolous libel threats. The problem with these threats is that you're forced into making a choice: spend real money to defend yourself (my site makes no income) or give in to the assholes and take down posts. When the disputed post concerns a shady for-sale transaction, removing the post effectively whitewashes the shady seller's reputation and potentially exposes innocent future buyers to getting hosed. It's a crappy situation and I just want to be immune to it all.
- mirimir 9y agoSo just run the site anonymously. If you're really paranoid, on a Tor onion. If you only somewhat paranoid, on a server from Host Sailor or another tolerant host. Edit: If you're really really paranoid, on a Tor onion, hosted on an anonymously leased server, from a tolerant host. And know your OPSEC.
- function_seven 9y agoDidn’t protect Ross Ulbricht :)
- mirimir 9y agoTrue. But he made stupid mistakes. Such as leaking his true-name email address in posts about SR on Bitcoin Forum and StackExchange. And misconfiguring Apache so it leaked error messages from its clearnet IP. And having an iptables rule in the server that pointed to a private VPN server that he'd created. And buying a bunch of fake driver's licenses, and having them sent to him in SF.
- ivanjaros 9y agoAre you serious? After what they did to Dotcom? Heck no.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoThe New Zealand court system has not been unfair to Kim Dotcom. The actions of NZ police in his arrest are inexcusable, and so is the use of government spy agencies to spy on a resident. But the courts are independent of all that. Kim Dotcom actually just won a $90k settlement from the Human Rights Tribunal.