Ever since the Cold War ended and the rest of the world quickly took note of the fact the US has a bigger military than the next 5 combined.

U. A. V. 's.
Fear Them.

Regards,
toony

I believe their servers were being hosted in the USA, therefore, since the infringing material was located in the USA the US are legally in the right.

Its like the US want to be hated by everyone.. Good luck getting aid when your country is fucked in a few years time.

Oh, once we start getting fucked I am sure the aids will follow.

Your statement honestly has and still does confuse me. But okay.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/apnewsbreak-feds-shut-file-sharing-website-15396093#.Tx1wKfmO6So



So I was wrong, only some of their servers are hosted in the US.

I haven't voiced any opinion. I'm just stating what I thought happened.

Why didn't you quote and dissect my comment?

Answer: $$$$$$$¢$$$$$$$$¢$$$$

My evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5npZwUdZwnY

Pretty crazy that this movie-esque arrest scene happened 40 minutes drive from where I live, don't get much FBI action around New Zealand!

He's got NZ's best lawyer on his case, the guy is legend, so he won't be going anywhere for a while imo.

I wish I made 150k a day like this Kim Dotcom guy (and goett)

So, if a few of them don't care about their stuff getting stolen, then it's ok to steal from the rest of them?

You say the musicians make most of their money from concerts - who makes money from the CDs? Some great big company that produced and promoted the CD, right? Why do thousands of people flock to a big venue to see a top band in concert? Because some big company did a good job of promoting and producing their CDs. I've seen plenty of great bands playing on the weekends in local bars. They aren't making any real money though. The big record label adds value to the band's product and helps them make all that money from concerts and, yes, a fair bit from CD and MP3 royalties. The musician doesn't have any standing to "endorse" theft when the record label owns a large interest in the product that is being stolen. The label has a very valid ownership interest in the copyrighted material.

As to your last question: The U.S. could arrest people in another country in this case because of treaties and understandings between nations. Lots of countries cooperate with one another on law enforcement issues to varying degrees because they understand that criminals moving between countries or sitting in one country while directing criminal operations in another are bad for all of the societies involved. Every once in awhile you get a country that won't cooperate with anyone else on extradition and such. Those are the places where Nazi war criminals go to retire.

U.S. fucked us in the UK with their lop sided extradition treaty. Means they can pull our citizens with no proof , but we have to provide full proof upfront to pull a u.s citizen...its a disgrace

Well, you didn't really expect us to trust a bunch of monarchists did you?