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How is this at all different from the MegaUpload situation? Company, operating in a different country, not appearing to follow the local laws in the country tha
by misnome 14y ago
How is this at all different from the MegaUpload situation? Company, operating in a different country, not appearing to follow the local laws in the country that is using it's services, and the country wants to do something about it?
- canttestthis 14y agoIf I understand the Megaupload situation correctly, the crimes Megaupload and its executives were accused of were also illegal in the countries in which they were arrested. India's free speech laws are different from the US's though, so the same argument doesn't apply.
- tptacek 14y agoNew Zealand also has a criminal copyright violation statute.
- Retric 14y agoWhich they might not have been violating.
- misnome 14y agoAnd even if they were violating it, if New Zealand didn't want to pursue a case, why should America get the right to "World Police"?
- tptacek 14y agoDon't play daft. Mega was operating a business aimed squarely at the US market and built off the intellectual property of American companies. The US interest in seeing that case prosecuted is clear. If NZ wants to alienate one of the world's largest markets, their largest military ally (and the guarantor of their security, particularly in their shipping lanes) to stick up for a foreign national running a criminal copyright conspiracy on their soil, they're free to do so. Don't get all huffy when they decide not to let that happen.