Didn't this guy make something in the region of £250K from the site, or was that someone else?
Edit: "But the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency shut down the website claiming he had earned more than $230,000 (£147,000)"
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/28/wikipedia-extradiction-law-review-odwyer
Assuming he earned anything close, he can afford his own legal bills
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 8 Dec 2012, 21:51,
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One assumes that fighting the extradition wasn't cheap
You can also be pretty sure that the Customs Enforcement Agency had no way of knowing exactly what he earned so guessed on the upper end of the scale.
I still tend to agree though.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 8 Dec 2012, 22:03,
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I don't have much time for people who host file sharing sites which by their very nature encourage illegal file sharing
It's not a very nice way of complementing the people who make films and software just because you are a cheap skate. DVD's cost fuck all these days; my sympathy factor is zero with this guy
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 8 Dec 2012, 22:08,
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I have a lot of sympathy for these people.
This is just the modern moral equivalent of swapping disks and tapes in the playground, or sitting around with friends to watch a taped TV show, (or attending a VHS screening on an oil rig, etc.).
People like this were/are the trailblazers for on-demand TV/video - and very often offer a better service than the official channels.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 9 Dec 2012, 1:22,
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How do morals come into it?
Applying a standard of good or evil doesn't work with this.
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