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His expectation there matches his past behaviour, hardly surprising he has it (and probably justified). It's been a while but in the early 90s he ratted out pirates and fellow credit card fraudsters, still ended up with two years suspended sentence (tried as juvenile) for fraud, computer fraud, organised fencing (not the rapier kind), and misuse of titles.
Then there was that investment fraud thing, one and a half year suspended plus 100k Euro, early 2000s.
Generally speaking: Big brain, giant ego, complete lack of wisdom.
Now I'm sure Kiwis have plenty to gripe about about the behaviour of their government, but rest assured that it's not hitting anyone innocent.
/c/piracy has entered the thead
Can you point to the person who is a victim here?
At the very least, everyone who had to suffer his inflated ego on IRC or usenet back in the days. In case you read German.
That's not criminal.
It's a crime against good character.
Let me put it this way: Noone, absolutely noone, who knew him before he started megaupload, and among those are what 90% privacy tinfoil hats very invested in all kinds of civil rights, were up in arms when his bullshit finally caught up with him.
That NZ fucked up doing it -- well, so be it. Noone over here was doubting his guilt because grifting is all he's ever done. Don't confuse him for the TPB folks, people with an actual mission: Kim is a crook with attitude.
I still don't see a victim. Being upset by someone speaking mean things on the Internet is not make you a victim.
I agree he's a controversial figure and probably an egotistical ass. That doesn't mean we have the right to use violence to lock him in a cage.
In fact, many would argue that he's the victim. He was illegally raided. He had hard drives stolen at the hands of violent thugs. Making a copy of information isn't theft. Physically stealing a hard drive is theft.
From where I stand he shouldn't have gotten suspended sentences the first two times around so his current aggravated troubles are, well, karma.