i also understand that the megaupload ceo was money laundering. which is a huge crime already, but money laundering through megaupload user accounts is kind of crazy. he also did a lot of other illegal things with/via megaupload, as great as it was.
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so i’m more upset at the ceo of megaupload for making choices that put the megaupload’s existence in jeopardy. like, dude, if you weren’t doing all that illegal stuff, maybe megaupload would’ve had more of a chance to survive instead of making its shutdown inevitable.
i mean. i still miss megaupload. but reading up on all the crap this ceo guy did makes me think that it was set up to be taken down, unfortunately… :T
I was wrong.
Apparently all other uploading/sharing sites do illegal stuff that might be worse. So it’s not that Megaupload shouldn’t have used the site for breaking laws (that I probably wouldn’t completely agree with myself), it’s that they weren’t smooth enough to hide that they were abusing the system… and seemed rather boastful about it. Which did lead the CEO of Megaupload to an arrest because he didn’t hide the blatant proof of documented piracy (and I mean piracy in its truer form in that he was making money off of copyrighted material as well as paying others when they did the same). Allow me to quote an individual from the web:
They didn’t get arrested for running MegaUpload. They got arrested for being incredibly fucking stupid and documenting the fact that they used Megaupload for criminal purposes. If they had just quitely taken files for themselves and not put in writing how they were intentionally using the site for illegal purposes, it would still be up and running. Most crimes aren’t solved by top notch police work, they are solved by criminals being stupid fucking loud mouths.
… /cough
