2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/140596

2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand - SDF Chatter

Man this chaps my hide

Ortmann was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months while van der Kolk was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months. Each had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison but argued they should be allowed to serve their sentences in home detention.

Considering copyright shouldn't exist, then obviously not. These people did nothing but copy data that happened to be censored by "property laws" that are based on a flawed definition of what people can actually own.