U.S. prosecutors say Megaupload raked in at least $175 million — mainly from people who used the site to illegally download songs, television shows and movies -— before the FBI shut it down in early 2012 and arrested Dotcom and other company officers.

  • @itchy_lizard@feddit.it
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    41 year ago

    Why would you think that? New Zealand doesn’t have for-profit prisons AFAIK. I think the US has the worst prisons.

    • @Gray@lemmy.ca
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      31 year ago

      I think they were just making a Lord of the Rings joke because the movies were filmed in New Zealand. I don’t think they really believe that New Zealand prisons are bad.

      • @itchy_lizard@feddit.it
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        11 year ago

        What does LoTR have to do with prisons? The only “prison” featured was the Tower of Isengard. It had one prisoner who escaped because there were no walls.

    • CrimeDad
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      11 year ago

      Isn’t that where they filmed the Lord of the Rings movies?

      • @itchy_lizard@feddit.it
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        1 year ago

        …Yes.

        And where they’re making smoking tobacco illegal. And where they lead a very successful COVID education campaign, better than probably any other country in the world.