Kim Dotcom, the owner of Megaupload who was recently arrested for illegal file sharing and loads of other charges reveals that many U.S. government officials from both the Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate also have illegal accounts on Megaupload.
Talk about hypocrisy.
http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/shocker-many-department-of-justice-officials-have-illegal-megaupload-accounts/
"Little has been made in public in the 2 or so months since Megaupload’sgovernment-ordered shutdown.
Following the arrest of founder Kim Dotcom and his associates, the site’s users have found that many of the files they had been put on the site were trapped, and that they were basically stuck waiting in limbo (much like Dotcom and his associates themselves) until the trial started.
In a recent interview, however, Dotcom revealed that many government officials also had Megaupload accounts, which would make the piracy issue a little less cut and dry than the Department of Justice might have originally hoped.
While the DoJ waits to take specific action and delete specific files, Dotcom was quick to point out the hypocrisy of it all.
“Guess what?” he said to Torrentfreak a week ago. “We found a large number of Mega accounts from U.S. Government officials including the Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate. I hope we will soon have permission to give them and the rest of our users access to their files.”
While Geekosystem highlights that neither Dotcom nor his lawyers are choosing to say how they know this, it seems plausible enough: in addition to movies, music and porn, MegaUpload is otherwise known as simply afile uploading service, and that’s likely to be one of the defense’s chief arguments. Along with the evident hypocrisy involving some DoJ members, that last obvious bit may also not make it as much of a slam-dunk case as some officials may have hoped for.
And about that tangled web, which only seems to grow more and more convoluted as its networks stretch overseas, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, often suspected of some heinous behavior himself, was recently found to have been engaging in his share of illegal downloading (even after speaking out against it liberally).
And elaborating on the ‘don’t sh*t where you eat’ theme is none other than Lamar Hunt himself, Grand Inquisitor of the SOPA witchhunt and also a copyright violator himself: Hunt was recently found to have used stock images on his site without permission, which would have violated the very legislation he was trying to pass.
While the current answer to the conundrum stands at, unfortunately, ‘we’ll have to wait and see,’ it’ll be only too interesting to see what happens as a result of this unveiling of hypocrisy on the part of our officials. One might hope for some serious retribution at the hands of Anonymous (who would arguably give the DoJ what they deserve instead of the punishment they’ll give themselves), but that would be a bit unlikely with all the arrests "
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