[finikytou]

how old are you? did you live through the megaupload era? for a few years it was ubiquitous and def a cashcow machine

[actionfromafar]

Yes, but converting that cashcow to a hundred million dollars in actual bills, is something special.

[Gormo]

If someone's a weirdo and wants to stuff their millions into a mattress, that by itself should not be sufficient to presume them guilty of any illegal activity, or justify seizing their money.

[queuebert]

Wait til you hear about this new startup called Google. They are going to launch yet another search engine. I doubt there's much money in it, though. They'll be lucky to make a few million.

[popcalc]

He's an example to be made of by rights-holders. People smarter than him decided to quit the business or go into becoming IP owners themselves: see Manwin -> MindGeek -> Aylo. It was a calculated risk.

[finikytou]

it was. he chose freedom and trusting people. if you go to jail for that you can be sure that it already created a precedent that put into jail a lot of innocent people

[account42]

Since when is file hosting a cash cow?

But no matter how big/small he is, I don't approve of other countries extraditing their citizens to the US for things they did while physically outside the US. Especially when the US wouldn't do the same when it comes to its citizens.