From the comments: "US Customs is arresting people the world over and extraditing them to the US—the kind of actions usually reserved for murderers—to face charges related to copyright infringement... If the corporations aren't running the US government, I don't know who is."
If someone were selling pirated CDs and posting them to people, would they arrest the postal workers?
I thought that internet service providers weren't responsible for the content of the websites? Livejournal isn't responsible for the content that we post.
If it's stealing content to make money for themselves, rather than facilitating the sharing of content, that's different. But it's still a pretty amazing kind of case, and is that what megaupload was doing anyway? How?
(A part of me is badly amused that it's New Zealand, too.)
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Date: 2012-01-19 09:16 pm (UTC)Hell of a point. Now I really feel ill.
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Date: 2012-01-19 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-19 11:19 pm (UTC)I thought that internet service providers weren't responsible for the content of the websites? Livejournal isn't responsible for the content that we post.
If it's stealing content to make money for themselves, rather than facilitating the sharing of content, that's different. But it's still a pretty amazing kind of case, and is that what megaupload was doing anyway? How?
(A part of me is badly amused that it's New Zealand, too.)