So yeah, about Megaupload being shut down

I'm sure this was revenge for their loss of SOPA. They probably had the ability to do this for a long time, but they decided to hold back. SOPA and PIPA mean nothing it just affirms the power the FBI already has.

I heard that there was semi-shady shit like when a copyright holder would request content be taken down that they'd remove the reported link and leave the content up to be downloaded via others. That and apparently the 'top' downloaded files were apparently semi-falsified to make the site seem more legit.

Drop in the bucket though.

I haven't read any of the legal details of the site itself but its founder, Dotcom, is definitely illegal.

Not in an undocumented immigrant sense but in the sense that every facet of his being seems to violate at least 3 New Zealand laws.

That would be up to New Zealand to litigate.

Right now you have Hollywood money bribing US officials to perform an arrest on a citizen of another country.

Your country is the most ridiculous shithole on the planet, and there's really no excuse or justification for the arrogance and corruption your people in power display brazenly that wouldn't make any one look like a fucking retard trying to present it.

He's actually in New Zealand custody but good fact-checking I'm sure you'll find a way to blame the US again

If I'm not mistaken he's got a laundry list of non-copyright related white collar crimes to answer for as well. Embezzlement, maybe?

This has literally nothing to do with anything I said.

So you think the fact that he's in New Zealand custody means anything? US nothing to do with it? Are you fucking serious?

You said the US officials "performed" an "arrest" on a citizen of another country. A far sight from a request for provisional arrest pending a request for extradition.

OK you want to make this an argument about the technicalities behind US corruption that's really dodging the actual issue at hand.

Jay you're showing enough anti-US bias that I can't take you seriously. Please just hide your ulterior motives for the sake of appearances man.

GB you're acting like I'd give a shit whether or not you took me seriously, like you are the arbiter final of anything. You're not. Nobody cares about your verdicts, and your opinions aren't any more worth while than mine. Right now you're acting like you think you'd fit in on the judging panel of America's Next Top Model, which might be true but it doesn't make you any kind of asset to the world. Not even slightly. Anybody can do what you do. Anybody. So just take a seat, kid. When you are actually important enough to make your opinion matter, maybe someone will listen to you. But that's going to take a few years.

The US receives plenty negative bias from me because its inhabitants are monkeys. There's no reason anyone would not be biased against the US, except those poor souls actually born there, it's a ludicrous mongoloid joke country where millionaires purchase legislation.

Sounds like somebody is jealous of the size of America's dick

No, America is the country that buys a Porsche to compensate while we laugh behind their backs at the sweatervest and toupe they paid for in an effort to try and hide that it's got a hip replacement from China and a cialis prescription because it's been failing to penetrate anything in the past 40 years.

I think this is why Molly can't take you seriously, even if you think he'd make a great Heidi Klum. US-based companies have seen far and above the most international market penetration over the past 40 years - growth has slowed recently only because US market share is so high. US companies continue to aggressively expand into growth markets.

And if you include military endeavors, we've penetrated just about everything out there - hard. That's not necessarily a good thing, but it does make your comment pretty laughable.