No but I remember the Lost finale…Now that was a crime against humanity but I can say I was surprised.
The difference between Seinfeld and Lost is that the Seinfeld finale is relevant to this thread.
Many moons ago there was a documentary on Belgian television regarding the Gumball rally. It openly showed Kim (and pretty much everyone else in that silly rally) bribing officials, committing traffic crimes and hinted at the filming-hit-woman incident.
And during this whole Megaupload bitch-fest there were plenty of articles in Belgian papers regarding his criminal activities as well as mention the fact that he filmed a woman cringing in pain while mocking and degrading her instead of helping (or just calling an ambulance or whatever).
Like this one: https://standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=G2E3L7KCG
“Tijdens de rally reed een vriend van Schmitz in Kessel een schoolopzichtster van de baan. De vrouw brak haar been en lag hulpeloos op straat, toen een tweede Mercedes met Duitse nummerplaten stopte. Juist, met Kim achter het stuur. Hij haalde zijn videocamera tevoorschijn en begon doodleuk het slachtoffer te filmen.”
- During the rally a friend of Schmitz hit a school supervisor in Kessel. The woman broke her leg and fell down helplessly on the street, when a second Merceded with German licenseplates stopped. Right, with Kim behind the wheel. He grabbed his camera and started filming the victim with great joy.
As far as crimes against humanity goes, it’s not as spectacular as a Stalin or the shit Dilma Rousseff is about to do, but it’s still a crime against humanity as far as the pure definition of the term goes.
Wow, that’s just fucked up. Fucked up, and only fucked up, not exactly worth a crime sentence if you ask me, unless he put up the film on YouTube to disgraced her entirely, or something like that, then I don’t think he should get charged for it. Anyways, the prosecution should only focus on the MegaUpload charges, not what happened a few years ago. And 50 years for running a file sharing site with millions upon millions upon millions of files, making it extremely hard to keep up with whether they’re copyrighted or not, isn’t very just. I know he could have checked them out, but usually, file sharing sites that do that have huge offices, with hundreds of people on computers checking the files, but I don’t think MegaUpload was that big.
To say that MegaUpload was built on copyright infringement really, well, ignorant. It was made on file sharing, just like RapidShare and MediaFire.
You see, he isn’t getting 50 years for running a file sharing site. He’s getting 50 years because he committed fraud. So of course they’re going to take him in and shut down anything that has to do with the fraud.
If Kim was the owner of a fucking pizza joint and committed a similar $500,000,000 fraud he would’ve been taken in as well, the pizza joint would’ve been closed down as well and he would’ve risked going to prison for 50 years as well.
How is this so terribly hard to understand?
I never said he was being charged for running a file sharing site, I just said that, since MegaUpload has 100000000+ files on it, and since there’s not a big management of MU that I know of (what I mean by this is, MU isn’t like some huge office building, I think Kim runs it alone, let me know if I’m wrong though), it has to be hard to keep track of everything that comes in to the site, so I think the prosecution should keep that in mind.
A pizza hut is easier to maintain what comes in it then a site that has millions of files uploaded to it everyday.
He was the founder and owner, but wasn’t the only one running it.
Anyway, sucks for the users (especially the gullible ones that paid for the service). I was also pissed off when the garage I bought my car at got shut down a month or 3 later because of insurance fraud, but there you go.
Driving schools that sell driving lessons certificates instead of giving lessons are starting to get shut down in Montreal, I have a 340$ down payment and still owe 210$ to one. Why does the government have to try to fix everything, it’s not like I need extra driving lessons just to get my learner’s permit.
I do praise you for providing evidence for your claims, Bolteh, and I see where you’re coming from in your arguments.
Although I still think most of the fraud is invalid, since it’s really like saying a whole town should be held to blame over someone illegally selling drugs in a discreet manner. By the way, did anyone check out that link I provided for that one hour presentation on how piracy can be good? It’s a couple pages back I believe. Give it a watch, it’s long, but it gets into the juicy stuff fairly early.
Actually, he’s not getting fifty years at all. He has been sentenced to exactly nothing thus far. I’m guilty of spreading this 50 years number around, but in retrospect, I wonder where it came from?
My point is that his arrest is fair, and hopefully his trial will be fair as well, effectively sending him to jail for however many years they deem justified.
I just hope that the judge, jury, and trial are good and rational. These days, that seems to be a rare thing.