Comment on Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to the US

darkevilmac@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  from odd eccentric file sharing site founder

  no. he basically started with credit card fraud and “sueing people who fileshare”. Together with a lawer he basically invented the practice of “see which IPs share copyrighted data, request the user data from the ISP and send out C&D extiotion letters to the ISP customers”

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Could you provide more info? Yes he and every hosting provider did that because they were forced to by Hollywood. They and all other hosting providers/isps certainly don’t want to do it because it costs money to track the infringers and then they lose a customer.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      He and his lawyer started doing that in the late 90s. When the labels just started knowing what the heck this newfangled internet even is.

      In den späten 90er Jahren, kurz nachdem er wegen Kreditkartenmissbrauch verhaftet worden war, wurden in Hackerkreisen Stimmen laut, dass Kimble auch seine Freunde an die Softwareindustrie gegen Entgelt ausgeliefert habe. Der damalige berüchtigte Schwarzkopierer-Jäger und Anwalt Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth hat seinen eigenen Aussagen zufolge Kimble als sogenannten Testbesteller beschäftigt.

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      Just one of the articles that goes into this assholes history

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      In the late 1990s, shortly after he was arrested for credit card fraud, there were rumors in hacker circles that Kimble had also handed over his friends to the software industry for a fee. Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth, the notorious pirate hunter and lawyer at the time, said he employed Kimble as a so-called test orderer

      They mass-collected the connection data and started mass-sueing/extorting. Nobody else did on such a large scale at the time.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wow! I had no idea.

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  • darkevilmac@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wasn’t aware of his history before Megaupload really.

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• KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wait what happened?!

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  • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    spread russian propaganda afaik

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• refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sure, but this isn’t about the person; it’s about legal precidence.

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• smooth_tea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Am I the only one who fails to see anything seriously wrong with what you list there? I’m purposefully ignoring “misinformation spreading conspiracy theorist”, because that’s a pretty meaningless accusation and is often added as an easy character assassination rather than something substantial, but I’d like to see you elaborate.

  I mean, we’re talking jail time and extradition, and nothing you’ve mentioned is even against the law in the slightest. Yes, there was piracy on his file sharing site, but that’s true for practically any service on the internet, from Google drive to Amazon S3 and anything in-between and vaguely related.

  Characters like him are targeted because they are both successful and anti establishment, the eccentricity just tops it off. But why should that result in a lack of sympathy? The world doesn’t have enough of these people who rock the boat if you ask me.

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  • darkevilmac@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You ignored the adware distribution, if you want to see him spreading misinformation feel free to check his Twitter. It runs the gamut from antivaxxer to literal Russian propaganda.

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    • smooth_tea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Do you mean malware?

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