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> What was the main difference of the initial phase of YouTube and MegaUpload?

Kim dotcom didn't go to Stanford and have layers of contacts within the DoJ



Salty hot-take but not grounded in reality if you remember or look back on the facts. He actively encouraged piracy, of whioch there is ample proof, then doubled-down on this, then tried to frame his own take on "following the rules" - all while continuing to poke the bear. We can debate what the laws and punishements should be, but he's about to feel justice in many different forms.


YouTube was acquired by Google within two years of it launching. It's life as an independent operation was just too short to get into that sort of trouble.


One of the cool things that lawyers do is that they advise you on how you can comply with the law and avoid such pesky things as “imprisonment” and “extradition”.




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