{"id":228,"date":"2012-06-15T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackspherelabs.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2012-06-15T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:11:07","slug":"kim-dotcom-case-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/kim-dotcom-case-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim DotCom Case Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news revolving around Kim Dotcom is crazy.\u00a0 I still did not get how the feds were able to get the authority to go to this guys house and take his stuff but whatever.<\/p>\n

From wikipedia:<\/p>\n

New Zealand authorities were cooperating with the United States’ FBI<\/a> and Justice Department, Hong Kong Customs<\/a> and the Hong Kong Department of Justice<\/a>, the Netherlands Police Agency and the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Fraud and Environmental Crime in Rotterdam, London’s Metropolitan Police Service, Germany\u2019s Bundeskriminalamt and the German Public Prosecutors, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police<\/a> and the Canadian Department of Justice in the investigation preceding the arrests.<\/p>\n

I guess this is great but why do we have different countries with different laws if we have people thinking that laws around the world should still be the same?<\/p>\n

The worst part about all of this is how the US is being reflected on the internet over this.\u00a0 The future of cloud storage in the US is at risk now because we had to go seize a bunch of movies and whatever.\u00a0 People are not going to want to put any data in the US.\u00a0 Why host your data in the US when it is just going to be seized?\u00a0 Someone could intentionally infect your data with something illegal and then the FBI comes and takes it.\u00a0 It may just be talk on the internet now but people are actually thinking about this stuff somewhere.\u00a0 Making decisions where to put their data.<\/p>\n

I have heard that in this case though many legal take downs where tried…but who really knows.\u00a0 Many legal take downs are tried all the time everywhere.\u00a0 If one user in some city shares a file on some p2p network do we take down the entire internet in the city to find this one user?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n

I really wonder how many of those files are legit and how many people they upset by taking this data.\u00a0 In the case that they are going to pursue against this gentlemen and others this is going to be a factor.\u00a0 It may be that large amounts of data may be legit.<\/a>\u00a0 Quote from that link:\u00a0 “Counting only Web-based file-sharing, then, Megaupload accounted for more than a quarter of corporate traffic.”<\/p>\n

This is HUGE and the impacts that this case and the actions that the FBI takes are going to be important.\u00a0 The future of the security of our nation and our economy will be effected by this case.\u00a0 We may be making things more difficult.<\/p>\n

Remember this is not the first time that the FBI or a gov agency has taken a massive amount of sites or files down before.\u00a0 Remember the time they took down something like a million blogs because of a few bad nuts?\u00a0 That was miniscule compared to the amount of data and servers Megaupload had.\u00a0 Quotes like “Megaupload, the popular Storage and Back-Up Service which accounts for roughly 1% of total traffic on fixed access networks in North America.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some graphs and tables:<\/p>\n