Post: The Bogus Justification of MegaUpload Raids
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08-11-2012, 04:37 PM
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Cryptic
Former Staff | Content Manager
Yes, you read that right. When Grant Wormald, the detective inspector who oversaw the daring raid against Megaupload for the Organized and Finical Crime Agency (Ofcanz) spoke with the FBI, the FBI told Mr. Wormlad that, "the device in which Mr. Dotcom is in possession of, is able to be carried with him at will, and upon his command, would delete servers around the world." The FBI went on to say that the "device" could be trigger "at will" and be used "within seconds" from any computer or phone on Mr. Dotcom's personal property. According to reports, should Mr. Dotcom be out of commission for some reason, some 20 of his personnel on his property would've been able to use said "device".
During the daring raid in New Zealand, no such device was ever found within the compound, despite having gone through a thorough search of the massive complex. In response to these recent revelations in the case against Mr. Dotcom, his Attorney is calling the actions of the New Zealand police force, "incompetent, disgraceful, and woeful, pitiful inept performance at all stages and on all levels."
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Frankly, to me, seems like the FBI is just trying to justify their own actions when they know they are in the wrong for helping carrying out the raid. I'm quite interested to see how this, and the Demonoid cases turn out. I don't deny such existence of things that would black out entire parts of the Internet at a time. Hell the DOD here in the US took some 27, 000 computers off the Internet a few months back because they turned off some serves, in which the computers that lost their Internet access, were running a DNS virus that relied on the servers that the DOD shut down.
I do doubt that Kim Dotcom was in possession of such an item though. That seems preposterous to me. Surly he would've used it long ago if he had it. Then again that would've taken Megaupload offline anyhow if he had.
Kim Dotcom was quoted as saying in a semi-related story (before this news came to the public) that Megaupload WOULD be returning and all the old links would work again. No ETA as to when though.
Thoughts from the NGU community?
Also accepting feedback on this. I wrote this up as a practice article for the NGU Reporter Applications. Thoughts?
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08-13-2012, 01:14 PM
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Cade
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Originally posted by Storm
Well written article. I do find it hard to believe such a device would be in the possession of Mr Dotcom. I also struggle to see the return of MegaUpload. Maybe he has a trick up his sleeve?
On a You must login or register to view this content., Kim Dotcom was the #1 in the Free For All leaderboards on MW3 for Xbox. I actually played in a Free-For-All lobby against him
On a You must login or register to view this content., Kim Dotcom was the #1 in the Free For All leaderboards on MW3 for Xbox. I actually played in a Free-For-All lobby against him
Kim is actually launching a new service called megabox this year, according to his twitter.
Megabox will allow "artists to sell their creations direct to consumers and allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings."
08-13-2012, 01:46 PM
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Cryptic
Former Staff | Content Manager
Originally posted by ENZO
Kim is actually launching a new service called megabox this year, according to his twitter.
Megabox will allow "artists to sell their creations direct to consumers and allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings."
Megabox will allow "artists to sell their creations direct to consumers and allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings."
To which music labels are flipping shit because they only get 5 or 10 percent of the earnings. They don't want it to happen, and are trying to stop Kim from launching it. If the music is cheaper with him than on Amazon, then I'll switch to his service.
08-16-2012, 08:08 PM
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Zut Culdon
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