Now that all the English-speaking Western nations have decided to adopt full-blown fascism against the wishes of their voters, more and more people are being crushed by tyranny daily. New Zealand has announced that it will allow the Biden regime to extradite German citizen Kim Dotcom to the US. Dotcom was the creator of a file-uploading service called Megaupload back in 2005. Joe Biden’s donors in Hollywood have been gunning for Kim Dotcom for years, and Biden now seems determined to deliver his head on a platter.
Dotcom’s website was shut down back in 2012 when the FBI traveled to New Zealand and raided his family home. He was charged by the Department of Justice with racketeering conspiracy, copyright infringement, and money laundering. The DOJ claims that Dotcom “stole” $500 million from Hollywood and made $175 million from illicit activities. But is that what really happened?
Megaupload was unique for its time. Any person could upload a digital file on the website, and any other person could download a copy of that file. Some people started digitizing copies of movies and uploading them to the site. All copyright holders, including Hollywood movie studios, could take down any copyrighted material, no questions asked. Kim Dotcom didn’t interfere with this process in any way.
This issue is further complicated by the fact that America’s digital copyright laws are outdated by nearly 30 years. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 was signed into law by Bill Clinton. The law governs the copyright of digital materials on the Internet. But in those days, the only files that were being shared on the civilian Internet were spreadsheets and RTF documents that were measured in bytes, rather than gigabytes or terabytes.
The DMCA became law three years before Napster became a thing (for any old-timers who can remember that far back) and eight years before YouTube was founded. The idea that people would be able to stream a movie on the internet—let alone upload a digital file of a movie on our blazing-fast dial-up modems—was the stuff of science fiction.
The laws have never been meaningfully updated since 1998 and the courts haven’t provided much clarification when it comes to copyright and digital works.
Imagine that Person A is walking down the street with an apple. The apple is a perfect clone of one of the apples on Person B’s apple tree. Person A didn’t get the apple from Person B’s tree. Person A eats the apple.
Has Person A committed a crime against Person B? Obviously not, but Hollywood came up with a name for this “crime.” They call it “piracy” and the FBI suddenly started treating it as if it were a real crime in 2002.
As if a 13-year-old girl downloading a Britney Spears song from Napster was equivalent to Islamic privateers capturing a schooner, murdering the crew, and stealing its cargo of spices and silks.
Let’s face it—Britney Spears songs were never that good, and American copyright laws are borderline schizophrenic. You may not realize it, but you can legally go to a piracy website right now and stream any movie or TV show on your computer for free. That’s not considered a crime. But if you download a digital copy of a movie onto your computer and never watch it, you are guilty of “piracy” and the FBI can kick your door in.
That’s the dilemma that Kim Dotcom is up against right now. The rules on digital copyright are still unclear and Dotcom has been charged with something that doesn’t seem to be a real crime. Hopefully, the courts will figure it all out at some point. In the meantime, Joe Biden isn’t going to allow the non-existence of current laws to get in the way of his Hollywood donors’ wishes.