> I had to be made an example of as a warning to all IT people who were intending to work in similar companies.<p>That's scary. I'm supposed to police my employers actions? To some extent I can understand, but that puts a lot of IT people in awkward positions. Do Dropbox employees need to worry that infringing content is being taken down fast enough, lest the face prosecution?<p>I didn't follow Megaupload too closely, so I hope I'm blowing this out of proportion...
So basically employers/entrepreneurs get all the rewards if their companies succeed but if they fail, it's the employees who take the fall.<p>And then, when things do work out, these 'entrepreneurs' are the ones who boast about how they overcame adversity in the face of impossible odds.<p>Now I understand why Donald Trump is so popular in the US.
People just lost all faith in the system; so they might as well get some entertainment out of it.
Some of the coders from Lovoo (dating site/app) may be next. They created fake bots for male customers which the german IT magazine c't reported on last year based on a set of Outlook mailbox dumps they were handed. Now the police raided Lovoo HQ.<p><a href="https://mopo24.de/nachrichten/razzia-grossaufgebot-polizei-stuermt-firmenzentrale-von-lovoo-69557" rel="nofollow">https://mopo24.de/nachrichten/razzia-grossaufgebot-polizei-s...</a><p><a href="http://www.heise.de/forum/c-t/Kommentare-zu-c-t-Artikeln/Interne-Mails-bekraeftigen-Abzock-Verdacht-gegen-Dating-Plattform-Lovoo/The-LOVOO-SCAM-BEWARE/posting-24557526/show/" rel="nofollow">http://www.heise.de/forum/c-t/Kommentare-zu-c-t-Artikeln/Int...</a><p><a href="http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.de/2016/06/fraud-with-fake-profiles-police-raid-on.html" rel="nofollow">http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.de/2016/06/fraud-wi...</a><p>What's the thought process behind documenting the illegal activities in email threads? It makes you wonder if they honestly thought they were just developing test bots for QA purposes.
I do not understand how the US can charge someone with copyright infringement if that person is not a US citizen and has never been to the US. Is there an international agreement on how to handle infringement? Can Americans be extradited for infringing upon copyrights from other countries?
Clearly our prison system in the US is terrible. Of course most other countries are even worse but you'd think we would be more civilized. It's also embarrassing that the only person they were able to put in jail was a simple programmer.
It's a little sad specifically his own government didn't provide him much help. Numerous other issues with the US aside, I've always been reasonably confident that if I'm out of the country, the American embassy will help me.<p>And going after the IT staff is pretty awful. Generally speaking, we're just there to make it work. While I make a point to work jobs and clients I think do good work and are moral entities, the reality is, IT doesn't generally decide what a company does or what messes they get themselves involved with.
So this guy was jailed because he coded an advertising platform and a video hosting service.
I know Mega was on a thin shady line, but what has he done wrong to be jailed in USA ?
why not a interview with fbi or the DA? the "reporter" dont even mention if they were reached for comment.<p>yeah the little guy was screwed. we got that from the tittle.
> I don’t believe the US will help Estonia in any war. They also promised to help Ukraine, but did they really?<p>No. No we have not, and it is to our shame.
As someone working on a side project that allows people to upload data publically (think something like codepen), what can I do to stay away from trouble like this?
"All Kim ever cared about was how to promote himself on Twitter."<p>In sum, he's a total scumbag. I thought he was a cool guy, but now I think otherwise.
Crazy how the FBI has become the biatch of the american copyright mafia even to a degree of tromping and violating people's rights in other continents. GO USA!<p>What exactly was the claim against this software eng? By this article it almost sounds like the FBI (guided by the copyright mafia) fabricated a case against some defenseless software dev just to gain more leverage on dotcom.