Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand
Contrast this:<p>"wildly popular pirating website Megaupload"<p>and<p>"the victims of Megaupload"<p>With:<p>"After their 2012 arrest, Dotcom and the other two men set up a legitimate cloud-storage website called Mega."<p>Maybe I'm a little bit soft on the whole copyright infringement thing, and maybe time has blurred my memory, but I don't really separate Megaupload and Mega. I thought they were both just online storage lockers.<p>The primary difference, as far as my understanding, being that the US was really focused on copyright infringement as a top priority evil back when Megaupload existed, and a low-level annoyance in the time of Mega.<p>I also think Kim Dotcom isn't exactly the kind of person we'd encourage our kids to grow into, but what the US and NZ authorities did to him, raiding his home, where there were children present, with semi-automatic weapons out, is a far worse criminal act than any scale of copyright infringement.<p>KDC isn't someone I would ever want to feel sympathy for, but the US authorities made it happen.