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Once you have looked behind the curtain of government wheeling and dealing at such multi-billion situations you tend to believe that what Kim Schmitz is telling
by fpp 14y ago
Once you have looked behind the curtain of government wheeling and dealing at such multi-billion situations you tend to believe that what Kim Schmitz is telling might actually be the closest we get to the truth.
Now we should all think about how such a case would/will be handled in a few years time based on the changes to civil rights / Internet regulations / totalitarian powers currently in the pipeline across most western societies.
2015:
I guess you will not hear about it other that a few of those who lost their files and were not immediately constraint with gag orders will mentioning it on some low frequented boards. Sites like TorrentFreak will then immediately taken off the net / silenced by gag orders.
A brave new world we are looking forward to - the .... are just practicing in the moment and will eventually get better over time.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoQuick! Download Tor while you still can!
- yuhong 14y agoGood thing we have Silicon Valley lobbying to stop that.
- Joakal 14y agoCISPA legalises sharing of people's private data. USA government is brilliant with this proposal. It favours Silicon Valley and Hollywood. The people lose again.
- yuhong 14y agoNot the same thing, and CISPA has nothing to do with the MPAA.
- Joakal 14y agoYou disagree that people shouldn't have privacy when accessing information on the Internet? Perhaps to make an informed vote without persecution and intimidation?
- yuhong 14y agotptacek has discussed this before.
- Joakal 14y agoI missed this discussion, link?
- yuhong 14y agoOne of them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838087
- Joakal 14y agoThere's one example: "ECPA is actually fairly strict. It would be both illegal and tortious for Google to, for example, share the entire contents of your Gmail archives with the MPAA, currently. But after CISPA passes, it would be neither illegal nor a tort." I'm sorry, but CISPA erodes privacy of the people. Otherwise, what's the purpose of the bill then? tptacek doesn't even say except attack the anti-CISPA advocates saying that it's nothing new. There's an appropriate quote for that: "A claim that is nonsense on its face. Even if you knew absolutely nothing about any of the issues involved, the claim that the government is busy making legislation that does nothing is nonsensical."
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- tzs 14y ago> Once you have looked behind the curtain of government wheeling and dealing at such multi-billion situations you tend to believe that what Kim Schmitz is telling might actually be the closest we get to the truth Are you aware that he has numerous convictions for things such as trafficking in stolen goods, embezzlement, and insider trading? About the only times he appears to have not been actively working on a new criminal enterprise are when he's still on parole from a previous criminal enterprise and needs to keep clean. I see no reason to believe anything that man says.
- J3L2404 14y agoAgreed. Lionizing this clown shows how far HN has fallen.
- yukyukyuk 14y agoUnlikely. Hollywood has made the FBI its bitch because both 1) It contributes $billions to the economy 2) It contributes a few thousand dollars to congressional re-election campaigns Hollywood is certainly a dying industry, but right now it is the one bright spot on an otherwise fairly bleak economic landscape. So some genius thought up this idea of going after Megaupload. This was way outside normal FBI protocol, and they're paying a HUGE price for it in credibility, public support, and so on. Basically they've given Kim Dotcom, who as far as I can tell is a gigantic douche bag, MARTYR status as well as an enormous soap box. And a healthy serving of pity from the hacker community. I'm sure the rank and file FBI are royally pissed that this has transpired. I mean, they didn't sign up with the FBI to bust start-up assholes and do the dirty work of Hollywood, they signed up to fight the bad guys and protect the USA. And to mess the case up like this is just a shame. And a travesty. I can't imagine that this case is doing good things for FBI morale.