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Getting in the way of powerful people getting more power is always punished more harshly than anything else, including murder. In this case, he annoyed powerfu
by BiteCode_dev 2y ago
Getting in the way of powerful people getting more power is always punished more harshly than anything else, including murder.
In this case, he annoyed powerful IP owners, and those people in our current society are as powerful as they get.
- immibis 2y agoYour comment appears to have been downvoted for being inconvenient, despite its truth.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI downvoted it because it's untrue. As the article says, his coconspirators got 30 and 31 months respectively, which is much lower than New Zealand's mandatory minimum of 120 months for murder. (I would have responded directly, but in my experience commenters who start talking about things like "powerful people getting more power" aren't generally interested in a discussion about whether the claims they make are true.)
- BiteCode_dev 2y agoYeah but he got a _decade_ of _world-wide_ man chase and legal arm wrestling. That's 2 orders of magnitude up the resources invested. And not even for stealing in the case of Mega, but for assumed money people would have paid to IP owners if the service hadn't existed. Which is a premise pirates have been debunking for years. When I used mega, I didn't have the money for the content. Today I pay for netflix and steam games. This is not about justice, this is about power.