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Man this chaps my hide

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[–] travis@lemmy.blue 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's worse:

Meanwhile Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, is continuing to fight the U.S. charges and threat of extradition. He has said he expects his former colleagues to testify against him as part of the deal they struck.

[–] deathmetal@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

I find it very dubious to conflate running a hosting service with piracy, even if piracy was all over it.

Well, that's something he certainly knows a lot about, as he did the same way back when.