Saw this earlier, what do you guys think of this?

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Edit: Redditor deleted the image linked due to criticism, restored as an imgur link.

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    Back when I was in Jordan, I visited a music store. They had a big screen on the wall with Windows Explorer open with a huge catalog of .mp3s. You could choose anything and they would burn the CD for you. Everything was clean and tidy as you would expect for a shop in a central location. Made me aware of how much legislators work to protect the rights of those few companies that own the rights.

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    that’s the best way to put a huge “RAID ME!” sticker infront of your server room

    • ErenOnizuka@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Why? Mega is so good IMO. No speed limit, no rate limit, no time limit. Rapidshare for example limits the speed I believe to only 200 kbit/s and only allows 2 or 3 file downloads per day. Uploaded is even worse with 50 kbit/s. Fuckingfast is better regarding speed, but I believe they have a time limit, meaning after X days it gets automatically deleted.

      But there are still people who upload their stuff on that platform only. And that stuff is so niche, you can’t find it anywhere else or it simply is the highest quality.

      It would be a dream if people would upload to mega.

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      He’s speaking about a previous Prime Minister of NZ. Who’s actually secular, but has some Jewish heritage through a grandmother, but was raised Anglican, but really non religious.

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      This dude’s always been a weird piece of shit so somehow this isn’t even that surprising

  • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Dotcom is now effectively Musk’s hanger-on of a somewhat insane type. He posts a lot of megalomaniac and incoherent right-wing stuff (and I mean incoherent even by right-wing standards), as seen here. He hasn’t had anything to do with MEGA for many years, he’s been in a sort of exile in New Zealand, and frankly he seems as if he’s isolated and mentally deteriorating.

    • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz
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      Down in the deep south near Glenorchy. Isolated even for a New Zealander. Find Queenstown on a map and then follow the shore of the lake Queenstown is on to the west, tada Glenorchy. He lives there

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    Kim dotcom is how I imagine John McAfee if he became a billionaire.

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        A family friend of ours knew the guy. He was even more batshit insane than the stories make him seem.

      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I briefly met him at Defcon years ago and got an immediate off putting vibe to say the least. Then I saw him get up and tell his unhinged life story which then lead to a pitch for some crypto bullshit. I wish I had saved the 60 or so seconds I spent talking to him.

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      I see him more like the Larry Flynt of file sharing. He’s a piece of shit, but he’s also fighting for the right side.

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    This guy was arrested inside his own safe with a gun. He is a lunatic. He is also obviously trying to cash out somehow, even though since 2015 he himself claims to have no ties with Mega anymore and that it has been compromised.

    Either way, Mega hasn’t been good for piracy for ages, nor is it trust worthy for private data sharing.

    • TJA!@sh.itjust.works
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      In the linked post he writes

      Full Disclosure: I’m no longer involved with Mega but it operates lawfully like Megaupload did. The fact that Mega is still online after I founded it 13 years ago shows that the case against Megaupload was political, a total Hollywood overreach and the New Zealand Govt should be ashamed for still wanting to extradite me.

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    Since it’s a Redditor and Redditor information is by default, to be taken with many levels of skepticism. I’m under the impression that this ‘criticism’ are probably in the form of people telling said Redditor that they’re a bullshitter.

    I’ve done a quick search to find an image of this copy and I’m not surprised that I have not found it word for word. The only thing close that I’ve found was a letter he actually did write to Hollywood, back in 2012

    So it’s likely that this Redditor, probably hashed up a made-up tweet image because it’s a common way to stir up bullshit, like any lowlife Redditor would want to do when they’re bored.

    Oh and I ran a Google image search on this image and what came up? The Reddit post itself, go figure.

    I stand corrected as someone actually pointed to the source.

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      When a person’s words makes then look like an ass, I’m not sure that giving them more exposure is “promoting” them.

      • Zombie@feddit.uk
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        Any publicity is good publicity.

        You may think it makes him look like an ass, but to an ass he looks like their kind of guy.

        Case in point: Donald Ass Trump

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          I really hate to accept that exposing assy words and behavior just makes it worst, but it’s hard to argue with that example.

          The way the internet enables awful outliers to find each other and organize really makes one question whether it was ever a good idea.