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Kim Dotcom's personal asset seizure null and void. Not the seizure of Megaupload assets. This really has very little bearing on the Megaupload case as a whole.

rbanffy 15y ago
Unless it may reflect an overall careless (or worse, abusive) attitude by the various prosecution teams. This is a tough case, involving many jurisdictions and different civil, criminal and process law and, worse of all, driven by economic pressure by companies that are being questioned on many levels for using law enforcement as thugs, as well as other shady business practices. If they want to win this case, they'd better do all their homework flawlessly, dot all i's and cross all t's. If they don't, it will set a precedent that will frame future cases like this. And there will be many more of them.
- chappi42 15y ago
  An error has been made and is now beeing admitted. A good sign for a working jurisdiction imo. While companies may be questioned I much more question the ethics of this kim distributing copyrighted material without compensating the authors and then buying ferraris instead. Not a role model I'd like to prevail.
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    Even very nasty people have the right to due process, fair trial and opportunity to mount a defense. In the nastiness scale, Kim barely registers.
  - dstorrs 15y ago
    Why is this being downvoted? It's not the popular view in these parts but it's a legitimate one and did not strike me as trolling.
    - rbanffy 15y ago
      I believe people disagree with him and downvoting has replaced discussion in many cases. You may downvote a comment that's plain wrong, but you shouldn't do it if someone else already countered the argument.
  - xorbyte 15y ago
    Unless you happen to know, factually, that he is guilty (and perhaps therefore a witness in the trial?) this is exactly the kind of thing that shouldn't happen before a verdict has been handed down. Kim's personality has little to do with how the law should be applied.
nextparadigms 15y ago
"This really has very little bearing on the Megaupload case as a whole." Not exactly true. It would allow Dotcom to have more funds for a proper defense. This sort of stuff shouldn't even happen before you actually get charged as guilty. This is why I never really liked the "OPEN Act" alternative to SOPA either. Sites shouldn't get their funds seized and cut off before they even get a chance to defend themselves.

rbanffy 15y ago

Unless it may reflect an overall careless (or worse, abusive) attitude by the various prosecution teams. This is a tough case, involving many jurisdictions and different civil, criminal and process law and, worse of all, driven by economic pressure by companies that are being questioned on many levels for using law enforcement as thugs, as well as other shady business practices. If they want to win this case, they'd better do all their homework flawlessly, dot all i's and cross all t's. If they don't, it will set a precedent that will frame future cases like this. And there will be many more of them.

chappi42 15y ago
An error has been made and is now beeing admitted. A good sign for a working jurisdiction imo. While companies may be questioned I much more question the ethics of this kim distributing copyrighted material without compensating the authors and then buying ferraris instead. Not a role model I'd like to prevail.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  Even very nasty people have the right to due process, fair trial and opportunity to mount a defense. In the nastiness scale, Kim barely registers.
- dstorrs 15y ago
  Why is this being downvoted? It's not the popular view in these parts but it's a legitimate one and did not strike me as trolling.
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    I believe people disagree with him and downvoting has replaced discussion in many cases. You may downvote a comment that's plain wrong, but you shouldn't do it if someone else already countered the argument.
- xorbyte 15y ago
  Unless you happen to know, factually, that he is guilty (and perhaps therefore a witness in the trial?) this is exactly the kind of thing that shouldn't happen before a verdict has been handed down. Kim's personality has little to do with how the law should be applied.

nextparadigms 15y ago

"This really has very little bearing on the Megaupload case as a whole." Not exactly true. It would allow Dotcom to have more funds for a proper defense. This sort of stuff shouldn't even happen before you actually get charged as guilty. This is why I never really liked the "OPEN Act" alternative to SOPA either. Sites shouldn't get their funds seized and cut off before they even get a chance to defend themselves.