Kim Dotcom Wins Release of $4.83m, Some Lawyers Set To Get Paid

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Kim Dotcom has yet another reason to celebrate this morning. The High Court in New Zealand has freed up $4.83 million from a government bond seized from the Internet entrepreneur when he was arrested back in January. The cash will go towards Dotcom’s New Zealand legal expenses to date and contribute to his future fighting fund. The Megaupload founder will also be able to sell some of the vehicles from his luxury car collection.

Back in January, U.S., New Zealand and Hong Kong authorities closed down Dotcom’s companies and seized pretty much everything he owned, leaving him to embark on what first appeared to be an impossible mission.

Fighting an international legal battle against two sets of governments is a huge undertaking, but for months Kim Dotcom has been doing just that with the help of a legal team headed up by Ira Rothken.

The team have run up huge bills defending the Megaupload founder and co-defendants Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk, but due to Dotcom’s financial position for more than seven months no one has been paid.

But a welcome decision today means that Dotcom will soon be reunited with millions of dollars previously seized on behalf of the U.S. government, although there are restrictions attached.

In the High Court in Auckland this morning, Justice Judith Potter allowed Dotcom to borrow approximately $NZ 6 million ($4.83m US) against a $NZ 10 million government bond. The amount released will cover $NZ 2.6 million in existing legal bills, $NZ 1 million in future costs, and another $NZ 1 million rent on Dotcom’s New Zealand mansion.

However, while the money released will be music to the ears of Dotcom’s legal team in New Zealand, lawyers in the United States will have to continue their wait. According to Wired, Justice Potter refused to release the full amount requested by Dotcom, meaning that for now a $US 242,000 bill run up by Ira Rothken’s law firm will go unpaid.

Justice Potter also ruled that none of the released funds can go towards the legal expenses of Bram van der Kolk, Finn Batato or Mathias Ortmann after the New Zealand Commissioner of Police said the individuals have funds of their own. The same restrictions do not apply to Dotcom’s wife, Mona.

In addition, Justice Potter ruled that Dotcom will be able to sell some of the cars seized in January including a 2008 Rolls Royce coupe and a 2009 Mercedes E500. Considering his increased profile the cars may well have appreciated in value during the last seven months, but any funds generated will be withheld pending a court review on how they may be spent.

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Rusty Shackelford

A little incentive for the lawyers to stick with Dotcom.
- http://twitter.com/Salvadoru1 Salvadoru
  
  Eddie answered I’m dazzled that anyone able to profit $9812 in 1 month on the network. have you seen this(Click on menu Home)
- http://twitter.com/Salvadoru1 Salvadoru
  
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Mwhahaha

Mwhahaha
Anonymous

Congrats, Kim. Please continue fighting the good fight.

Remember, this time around it’s not just about you — do what’s right for all of us, do it for the future of the Internet.

Thanks. :)
- Asashii
  
  yes make huge profits from others hard work, what a fat kat looser, who cant share for share sake, put him under the jail and what real free pirate would promot this jack off
  - Satan
    
    hahahahaha waaaaaaa asahii your hollyeood lawyer arent ya sucker
    - puddipuddi
      
      *Not directly at satan*
      
      We really shouldn’t be flagging the trolls, that’s censorship people. Leave their comments alone so we can laugh at them :P
    - Guest
      
      @puddipuddi Yeah, or at least have the option to view it. It should read “This comment was flagged for review. Click here to view anyway.”.
    - Guest321
      
      puddipuddi, that’s what I have been saying all along. Flagging anything other than actual spam is nothing but censorship and abuse of the system. The Disqus flag system isn’t meant to be used a censorship tool.
      
      I think we are seeing human nature at work here yet again. We blame the government for censorship and power abuse and yet we are seeing people here doing the same things. Even TF admins have been guilty of removing legit comments in the past on account of dislike. Given the choice it seems we too love to suppress the voice of the opposition. So nobody is truly innocent are they?
    - Popehat
      
      All it takes is one or two people to flag it and its flagged.
      I agree though someone should re-post the gist of what the troller said…
      
      Censorship should only be used on TF for the trolls who spam multiple posts on nonsensical BS…
    - Guest
      
      @Guest321 We blame the government for censorship and power abuse and yet we are seeing people here doing the same things. Even TF admins have been guilty of removing legit comments in the past on account of dislike. Given the choice it seems we too love to suppress the voice of the opposition. So nobody is truly innocent are they?
      If you don’t like the way Torrentfreak staff conduct their work, you are free to comment elsewhere, meanwhile don’t accuse movie theatre staff of kicking you out for yelling fire..
  - puddipuddi
    
    You do realize he is going to start a service where the artists get paid 90% of the profits? Unlike now where they are getting robbed blind by the pirate music industry, who are STEALING the profits right away from the artists.
    
    Nice try, internet tough guy. You’re trolling for the thieves.
    - tremor
      
      Do you really believe this or are you just troll?
    - Guest321
      
      I would actually like to see that 90% profit thing happen first and then comment. For it to work the system has to be 100% transparent. Is that really possible is what remains to be seen?
      
      Artists must be given the tools to track exactly how much their songs are making, so that they can ensure they are getting 90% and no less.
      
      Various file hosts in the past (and some in the present) used to pay a certain amount per 1000 downloads to uploaders. The problem was that the system was never transparent and people regularly complained of shaving downloads which was true in most cases. The file hosts used to provide a variety of online tools to monitor statistics but at the end of the day only the admin knew about the real profits and the uploaders only got to see what was shown to them. Nobody could know or do anything if the statistics were manipulated.
      
      So yes, there is a huge question mark over transparency and it remains to be seen how Dotcom can alleviate those problems.
    - Guest
      
      @tremor:twitter
      
      Why wouldn’t he believe it? Megabox hasn’t even launched yet, it’s a little early to imply it’s a scam.
      
      Are you a troll?
  - Anyone
    
    noone forced you to buy a MegaUpload account, people bought it because they believed it was a great service for a price they were willing to pay
    
    how does “others hard work” come into that?
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    So…what you are saying is that Dotcom shouldn’t have a fair trial and his day in court because you dislike him?
    
    Glad we cleared that up.
GUEST

The US’ tactic to rinse him for money by snowballing the lawyer fees and postponing and digging up evidence. The more they rinse on KDC, the more he will have lost at the end of the “battle”.
Sketch

lawyers still suck donkey balls……the world would be better served by their extermination
- Popehat
  
  In a perfect world…
- Lge
  
  You want justice visit a whorehouse. Want to get fucked go to court.
- Guest321
  
  The whole justice system needs to be exterminated. Its corrupt to the core. The system is set up so that only the rich can fight and get any justice. The rest can screw themselves.
  
  Just imagine if Dotcom was a poor man what would have happened. None of these lawyers would give his case a consideration. He would be appointed a public defense attorney who would immediately give Dotcom the option of a plea bargain in exchange for a reduced sentence. If he didn’t agree to it, he would have lost anyhow.
  - Anyone
    
    you mean like O’Dwyer?
    he isn’t rich and he got run over and sold out by his own government
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Not necessarily, Guest. You just have to be smart enough to keep abreast of the legal judgments in this country. If you read a newspaper on a regular basis, you have enough information to put up a VERY good fight against the corrupt people in government.
anonymous coward

So chuffed that the NZ court system doesn’t take orders from the United States like the government.
risingphoenix

Am I the only one who misread the title as: “Kim DotCom Wins Release of $4.83m, some lawyers set to get laid”
- Danny
  
  Yes, are you dyslexic?
- ScrewEwe2
  
  I was thinking along the same “laid” lines when I glanced at the headline. If the defence lawyers can get paid, they stand a better chance of getting laid. Hell, with 4.83m being released someone should get laid and paid, but when you get down to it, the DOJ prosecutors are prostitutes because they are getting paid for fucking Kim Dotcom on behalf of the MAFIAA.
  
  Legalized persecutory prosecutorial prostitution.
ThumbsUpThumbsDown

If you’re a DOJ Prosecutor, and you’re going to put ALL the American Government’s Power and World Standing behind a Case, then you owe it to every American Citizen who pays the Bill and bears the Consequenses, to pick the case for the Right Reasons; and, Fight the Case Righteously under the Right Guiding Principles.

If you’re going to produce a Specktacle of Grotesque Theatre, then produce it in a Closet over a Parking Ticket; and, don’t invite the Universe to Bear Witness; and, whatever you do, don’t chose to cast yourself in the role of Villan.

Three things you MUST not do: 1) Take the Story wholesale from the script of powerful Special Interests. 2) be seen to be willing to win the case by encouraging the destruction of exculpatory evidence from the same body of evidence from which you have extracted incriminating evidence; and, by encouraging restrictions on available qualified Legal Representation to the Accused. 3) be compelled to watch and listen as progressively higher levels of Judicial Reviews explain to you and to the World rudimentary defects in Due Process and Equity that you should have resolved personally long befote you ever took the case.
- GUEST
  
  Summed it up pretty nicely there.
- TONE DOWN THE CAPS.
  
  Good points but your capital letters are giving me a headache!!
  - ThumbsUpThumbsDown
    
    I’ve been concentrating on not being verbose……and, staying on topic (lol)….and, I’ll get right to work controling my rampant all-caps fetish……
    
    Anybody know a good porn site for All Caps Fetishists?
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Anonymous

I take it that this judge hasn’t been bribed silly yet?
- NotNice
  
  Of course the judge is bribed and partial deuce!
  
  This is why I trust only my guns when I need justice.
  
  Corrupted judges vs guns, guns always win.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    That ends with you in prison or dead unless the American public at large supports you, to be blunt on the matter.
Amewko

Kim you have everything to save internet for us. We may not help you as of now but surely in the future we will..we will… I agree to Anonymous#3.. Save internet for us at this time…Soon we will do our part.
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Anonymous

the case was instigated by an industry with a ‘special interest’ in the outcome. it was brought by one of a particular country’s Law Enforcement Agencies. it was given the ‘go ahead’ by a leading member of that same country’s government. it was done as a favour to a former government member who had changed jobs to become head of an industry with a ‘special interest’ in the outcome. that country has become known for it’s ridiculous changes in attitude whereby it thinks it is entitled to do whatever it likes, wherever it likes, regardless of the impact; that includes in it’s own country too. anyone refusing to cooperate (unless it is somewhere like China, Iran, N.Korea) is immediately threatened with trade sanctions or (sarc) worse still, told it isn’t a friend any more (whooppeee!). to try to win it’s case, the law enforcement agency concerned then lies, cheats and refuses to act in a legal manner itself, withholding funds as well as ‘evidence’, saying that only a lawyer they appoint can be used, in the country where that agency is based and thereby denying the defendant any type of reasonable defense. the ‘tide has been turning’ for a while now. hopefully, more and more countries will see what the USA has become and what it’s intentions are, particularly towards other countries and especially when another country refuses to be dominated by the USA. i hope there will be more good news over this issue very soon when the people concerned with this vendetta are named. the only thing i am curious over is why Dotcom’s businesses were closed in Hong Kong. surely the the USA has no jurisdiction over there so was it done as a one-off favour for the US or what?
anyway, keep on fighting the good fight, Kim. you have a lot of people on your side (basically, the whole Internet community!), even if we feel we can do little except just supply moral support
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Mattias

well if he/the company returns i will spend some money on that company…
discozombie

sweet i can jack off to porn again on my 56k connection!
- Satan
  
  ascii pron doesnt cut it
- Kqbd
  
  Really jack off on a 56k connection? In a year maybe.
  - Satan
    
    they call that the slow net stroke lol
Guest

Rather than using taxpayers money. Why not just give him the amount from his own money.
- Satan
  
  because the court likes to show you it is in utter control of our lives and we the people are just peons
  - Guest321
    
    I really think more and more people should start living off the grid. We have become too dependent on the government for everything and its not a good thing.
ken147

you know what’s cool? $4.83 Million.
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http://twitter.com/BlackHatMario BlackHatMario

you fools… he gets his money, and you?.. you people need still to work and download files from torrents.. ;)
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iSynic

He should sell his cars on kickstarter and get people to invest in the new site he’s setting up.
Just Curious

Morbidly obese (times two) filthy-rich fat pig waiting to have a HASSIVE coronary… bye, bye…
- Guest
  
  I’m waiting for the massive wave of heart attacks that could sweep over the DOJ, MPAA, and RIAA when Dotcom wins and then launches Megabox and Megaupload 2.0.
  - Just Curious
    
    Another corporate rectum licker… Mmmmm.. delicious! Muuuum!
    - Guest
      
      Bends over, don’t forget to give mine a good licking just curious i’ve got a nice juicy clingon waiting for your tongue lol
  - Guest
    
    I just hope all those involved with the beginnings of his prosecution are called to explain themselves. Much like those NZ cops trying to lie about the raid and even having the cheek to say they aren’t commenting.
- Popehat
  
  Hes fat so i don’t like him. Nice argument
Lolk

So, I notice that he has millions of dollars, and I have to ask this question; am I actually supposed to root for this guy? He’s just as rich as some of the bastards he opposes. How can I root for this guy?
- Kisra
  
  3 type of people in the world , The lion , The Fox , The Cow
  The Lion Strong << Them
  The Fox Smart << he is one of them
  The Cow Weak << most of the people
  - NotNice
    
    You should have say a sheep instead of a cow because a cow can take down a lion actually.
    - NotNice
      
      Also comparing these low life parasites to “lions” is definitively not appropriate.
      
      You should compare them to one of these deadly worm parasites or to some nasty virus such as poliomyelitis instead.
      
      The good new is that we can eradicate them and we will.
  - Lolk
    
    I see three types as well. The rich – Them. The also rich – Him. The poor – us. Again, I don’t see why I should support someone just as rich as everyone else I oppose in his little legal battle. Seems like the rich picking off their own. Better for us.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      That’s not a smart argument. If they can twist the law into unrecognizability to nail him, then that law is even easier to use against people like, say, you yourself.
      
      It’s in everyones best interest to ensure Kim Dotcom gets a fair trial with fair legal proceedings and the best defense he can afford. Because if he doesn’t get that, we’re next.
      
      Personally I’m all in favor of Dotcom winning this case because if he does it means we prosper as it will establish that the law can not be abused this way.
    - Lolk
      
      It wasn’t meant to be an intelligent argument. I was mocking Kisra.
      
      I explained in another post why I don’t think this will set any legal precedent. I don’t think it’s worth supporting him.
- Guest
  
  If someone has made their money by being innovative and pay their taxes then they usually don’t bother me. I sense a hint of jealousy.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Agreed with the ‘if they have paid their taxes’. Problem is in America most people making over 1 mil a year are not paying what they should in taxes because of all the loopholes we have.
  - Lolk
    
    You sense jealousy because you’re looking for jealousy. I think they have caused more generalized harm to the world through exploitation of innovation than they have brought. There has been progress brought about by the rich, but I see no reason to believe that it would not have occurred without them.
- Anonymous
  
  surely it depends on what he did to get the money and the way he used it once he got it. considering he has done/is still trying to do as much, if not more, for users of the internet than anyone else, he should be applauded. there are a hell of a lot of people with more money than him but have done nothing much to help anyone else at all
  - Lolk
    
    That depends on how you define “helping people”. He’s made a service that allows people to download stuff. Big whoop. I see no real help for anyone there. Convenience, yes, but all big businesses can claim that they make someone’s lives more convenient.
- Popehat
  
  Root for this guy because u like Mega-upload. If you don’t then don’t root for him. Its simple…
  - Lolk
    
    I don’t care about Mega-upload. It’s one website owned by a rich guy. I used it when it was up, and when it fell, I did what most people did and just moved on to the next one.
    - Guest
      
      Do you care that he was raided illegally at the behest of private fucking corporations? Do you care that these private fucking corporations are able to boss entire governments around? Doesn’t that seem wrong to you?
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Most of those ‘next ones’ are terrible compared to the numerous ones that shut their doors or turned into ‘file lockers’ who didn’t allow downloading by anyone who didn’t upload the file.
    - Lolk
      
      He and his were one of those “private fucking corporations”. He wants to change the government just like they do. He’s said as much, and he’s trying to use this court case and the expensive lawyers he’s hiring to do so. (Expensive lawyers; truly an asset of a friend of the people). I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the changes he wants to see in the government would lead to large profits for him. I’ll just overlook that. Yay Kim!
      
      Nah, fuck him. The rich have been outside the law for a long time. If they use that to take down other corrupt rich people, then it’s just infighting among them. Good for us.
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    No. Wrong.
    
    Root for him because the man deserves a fair trial and fair legal proceedings. If he doesn’t get that we’re straight back to square one where any corporation with a lawyer in their pocket gets to sue single mothers for a million because their teen downloaded half a dozen songs.
    
    Seriously, why do people keep missing this? Either we stand up for Dotcom’s rights to be tried and investigated according to reasonable law – or we shoot ourselves in the foot just because we don’t like him and don’t care that we’re next on the target list.
    - Lolk
      
      We were on the target list before him, and we’ll be on the target list after him regardless of the result of the case. The precedent set for him won’t be the precedent used for us (which is already set, and needs to be fought).
- timber
  
  Root for him because you don’t want the precedent against sharing culture to get any more heavy-handed. If he wins, people will notice and perhaps start thinking that throwing money at something you don’t like until it breaks doesn’t always work.
  
  I dislike the guy, but I’m rooting for his case because if he wins, it spells a very different fate for sharing culture and possible copyright reform.
  - Lolk
    
    I don’t give a shit about the future of copyright. It hasn’t mattered to me in the past, it doesn’t matter to me know, and it won’t matter to me in the future. Sharing culture is also somewhat unimportant for me, simply because I don’t share. I get all of my movies and games and whatnot from torrents, so I can’t be the one to upload them, so I’m not sharing (and no, letting my computer idle while it seeds is not sharing anything). People will continue to upload no matter what the government or companies do, so it’s not the biggest issue for me.
    
    However, for the sake of argument, let’s assume that I did care about copyright reform and court precedents. I still wouldn’t care about this case, because precedent has already been set that punishment for individual filesharers can be as huge as anyone wants. That’s the precedent that needs to be changed, and I have given money to the defense of those facing accusations of filesharing in the hopes of changing that precedent. Kim is not an individual filesharer, he is a business owner. He did this to make money. I don’t care what happens to them. It also seems very unlikely to lead to copyright reform, because we don’t have a case here that challenges copyright laws, it only challenges actions by police and companies. Whether or not filesharing was the reason for their actions is irrelevant; the only thing that will be judged is whether the police and companies overstepped their bounds. Copyright won’t change because of this. I don’t care.
- Guest
  
  @d565b479464d781322517897cbd2df86:disqus
  
  He’s fighting against corruption. If he wins then he strikes a massive blow against the MAFIAA and its thugs in government and law enforcement. Why the hell not root for him?
  
  “Because he’s rich” is extremely shallow if that’s your only justification. I hate most rich people but that’s because most rich people also happen to be horrible fucking douchebags who piss on their fellow man. I don’t hate them solely because they have a lot of money.
  
  He may have a lot of money like some of the bastards he opposes, but he’s also not a bastard like the bastards he opposes.
  - Lolk
    
    A rich man fighting against corruption is like a devout christian fighting an angel; it doesn’t happen. It appears that he’s not a bastard because while the companies he fights are gigantic bastards, he and his private company are only large bastards. I refuse to support one bastard because he’s being picked on by a larger bastard. Fuck them both I say. If they can take each other down, then that’s the happiest outcome.
    - Scary_Devil_Monastery
      
      ”
      is like a devout christian fighting an angel”
      
      The bible begs to differ. Numerous prophets have wrestled with angels.
      
      And the way you reason is that you don’t care that the precedent set here is that future lawsuits and trials against individuals – i.e. us – won’t even need a shred of proof.
      
      You don’t care? Fine. Then all you have to come up with is that you’re perfectly willing to sell everyone down the river because one of the guys accused has money. Fine. You’ve become one of the MPAA/RIAA’s “useful idiots”, perfectly happy to see the collateral damage of your personal crusade against the rich taking down the people next to you.
      
      That makes you and your opinions a worse deal for the poor than any number of rich people if they were given weight. At best that’s just too damn naive.
- Scary_Devil_Monastery
  
  Are you in favor of every person accused being given a fair trial?
  
  If so, you root for the guy.
  
  If not, then don’t. But that tells us more about yourself than about Dotcom, honestly. This is about whether the law should be equal for all and fair, not about whether one accused man has more money than another.
  - Lolk
    
    “Are you in favor of every person accused being given a fair trial?”
    
    Ideally, but that’s already a lost cause. The law isn’t equal. It hasn’t been in the past and it is not in the present. Given that fair trails don’t occur, I don’t see why I should give Kim any support or want him to win, especially since I don’t buy your above arguments that it will set a beneficial legal precedent. The law is unfair, but it’s being unfair to one of the parasites. I won’t waste even the small effort to care about him.
    
    To be clear, if we could fix all of the other instances of unfair trials in the world, then I’d be happy with giving him support, but his precedence on the list of unfair trials to give a shit about is damn near rock bottom.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Being unfair to one of the parasites? Way too push your (most likely shill) point of view on everyone else.
    - Lolk
      
      He’s one of the rich guys. He’s a parasite. That applies to him, the MAFIAA, senators, and everyone else who got rich on the works of other people.
mcgravier05

This is Epic Win.
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Jimbo

so what’s the latest on the release of info from the DoJ then, as ordered by the Court? or what are the latest excuses trying to be used so as NOT to reveal the info to Kim?
- Vincent Giannell
  
  I have a feeling they’ll run out of excuses and will have no choice but to comply to the court.
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robthom

KIM DOTCOM FOR PRESIDENT!
shengcai948

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foff

Yea! for the fat kraut. Who cares if he is rich. what feeble minded person can condone the heavy way this was handled. No way in fuck should he have be treated like some kind of gun toting terrorist. All they had to do was knock on the door and serve a warrant in a gentlemanly way. The excuse that they were worried they would lose proof or something is a pure bullshit excuse. They should already have had the fucking proof if they were going to mount such ridiculous spectacle. If all the servers in hong kong and the US were not enough then they had and have shit for a case.
Billadoid

Poor and fellow pirates, keep supporting that rich fat fu?k, lol
- Guest
  
  lol yeah I hope that fat bastard loses
  
  That way we’ll get to live in a perfect world where the SWAT team kicks down your door and arrests you because McDonalds didn’t like you making your own hamburgers.
  
  The joining of government and corporation is a good thing, people. Us poor and fellow pirates should support it, apparently.
  - Billadoid
    
    lol, y u so sarcastic?
    
    Rich people ain’t be no criminals you say?
    He IS a criminal, like most of us. The only difference is that he got rich.
    Let’s not kid ourselves. He’ll get acquitted. You and I wouldn’t ;)
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1837579477 Krotkov George

working 7months so they can free up enough of their client’s cash so he could pay them.

very nice
Shitt Romney

Dammit, some of you numbnuts around here apparently need a wakeup call. Look at the big picture: IT DOES NOT MATTER if Dotcom is rich or not. What matters is that he is fighting the very same corrupt establishment, which the majority of us would fold like a wet newspaper going up against. Mainly because few of us have that kind of cash. Duh!

Ferchrissakes, let him keep his pink cadillacs and megamansion if Kim succeeds in giving DoJ a well deserved bitchslapping in court, while pulling the pants off Joe Biden and his MAFIAAvbuddy Dodd, I say he friggin’ well deserves it and THEN some.

Joe Biden – The democrats very own Dan Quayle. This guy wouldn’t even have a clue if someone wrote the word on the side of a piano and dropped it on him. I just wish Obama would grow a pair and kick this corrupt asshat to the curb.

Aaahhh, that felt so much better..
- Billadoid
  
  A rich man fighting against corruption is like a devout christian
  fighting an angel; it doesn’t happen. It appears that he’s not a bastard
  because while the companies he fights are gigantic bastards, he and his
  private company are only large bastards. I refuse to support one
  bastard because he’s being picked on by a larger bastard. Fuck them both
  I say. If they can take each other down, then that’s the happiest
  outc?me.
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    ”
    A rich man fighting against corruption is like a devout christian
    
    fighting an angel; it doesn’t happen.”
    According to the bible, numerous prophets have wrestled angels so…at least use the proper metaphor.
    
    And if the MPAA takes down Dotcom they just gained more ammo to use against the rest of us and no bag limit. Dislike dotcom all you want. Me, I’m looking at a situation where he’s the only current case likely to embarrass the DoJ into ceasing to cater to the MPAA.
    
    Your way entails accepting collateral damage on your own side as a direct result of you not liking “rich” people. Fine. That makes you the enemy of ordinary people the same way you claim Dotcom is.
    - Billadoid
      
      lol, I just copy pasted it, stfu
    - Guest
      
      Not to disagree with your major message, but the bible never shows any prophet fighting an angel to the death, or even in serious battle. Wrestling isn’t the same as battling.
Blah

What happened to the people that used to use FTPs?
What happened to the people that used to use torrents?

Kim and his ilk are the cancer that is killing the our scene, bringing in uploaders that are just doing it for the cash.

BRING BACK THE REAL SHARERS FUCK THESE CASH HUNGRY PRICKS.
- https://twitter.com/#!/OffensivAtheist bismarket
  
  In a perfect world, YES! There have been times when i’ve only found some hard to find movies, thanks to Mega-UP, & i don’t eat for at least 1day a week 2 pay for my Internet connection, so there’s a place for folks like Mr .Com & it’s NOT in jail. I can’t believe anyone seriously sees any defence for an industry that year-on-year posts record profits or charges for stuff that should be Public Domain!
methamp

Winning, duh.
https://twitter.com/#!/OffensivAtheist bismarket

They hate this guy almost as badly as Bradley Manning & you can bet your ass they’d treat him in much the same way if he was in the US rather than NZ. Although NZ have acted terribly in this, at least they’re not torturing him. If/When either of these guys are free of the bullies, i’m gonna have a HUGE party!
- http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq
  
  He’s damn lucky to be in NZ. Most countries would sell him on down the river.
Kevin Grech

I guess Kim’s Law firm is about to get a bump up in profits
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Guest

well sure, money has to flow to the lawyers. Can’t not have that happen!

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