Kim Dotcom's legal team exits as Megaupload founder runs out of money

[DAOWAce]

Still don't understand why they're prosecuting someone who created a site where the users were doing all the illegal things.
If he didn't, someone else would. And since Megaupload was one of the first of these types of sites, it became the biggest, and of course, a target for the US government.

Just, so stupid.

 

[itsme]

$10,000,000 for a single case? Someone got hosed... no way it could cost that much. Even with a legal team of 3 lawyers each at @ $200 hour based at FULL time is only $180,000 a year.

There's more to a lawsuit than the attorneys themselves. Travel, copies, paralegals, filings, parking, food, hotel, long-distance calls, and more get charged to the client. Additionally, $200.00/hour is cheap as I've worked for a few attorneys that charge $400.00/hour, and that was almost 20 years ago.
But either way, the freaking govt wins, as usual, by not having to disclose all of their findings, by dragging out the process and waiting until the defendant runs out of money.

 

[captaincranky]

Defensis Lawyerii in action:

Surely y'all had to know that inevitably, even a carcass the size of Dotcom's would be picked clean ...

 

[infiltrator]

Wow .... just looking at that house; can you imagine how many irobot vacuums it would take to keep it clean?!?!?!?!

I was actually admiring the irony of a fat man owning a property with a full-size tennis court.

Its very ironic isn't it? I too was admiring and even asked myself, why own a tennis court, if you are not into exercising?

 

[cliffordcooley]

Maybe it wasn't the tennis court he wanted. You guys have heard of the honey-do-list, have you not? You are only belittling yourself, by opening your mouth about someoneelse's physical condition.

 

[captaincranky]

Its very ironic isn't it? I too was admiring and even asked myself, why own a tennis court, if you are not into exercising?

Maybe Dotcom likes sniffing the used towels...

Maybe it wasn't the tennis court he wanted. You guys have heard of the honey-do-list, have you not? You are only belittling yourself, by opening your mouth about someoneelse's physical condition.

And perhaps you are a bit naive in thinking Dotcom's, "condition", is not of his own doing.

You don't amass a fortune the size of Kimmy boy's, without a healthy streak of greed running through you. And quite often, that greed spills over to the dinner plate.

In this man's case, I have a sneaking suspicion that he very much enjoyed presenting himself as being God damned fat, God damned important, God damned rich, and doing it all while being photographed next to a $100,000 (or so), huge expensive luxury car.

 

[cliffordcooley]

And perhaps you are a bit naive in thinking Dotcom's, "condition", is not of his own doing.

And here you are once again putting words in someone else's mouth. At no time did I suggest he wasn't the cause of his own doing. You should stop trying to read between the lines and actually read the lines.

 

[captaincranky]

OK, this is what you said.

Maybe it wasn't the tennis court he wanted. You guys have heard of the honey-do-list, have you not? You are only belittling yourself, by opening your mouth about someoneelse's physical condition.

Scolding, tyrannizing, bullying, and pontificating towards the noobs as per your usual modus operandi.

And here you are once again putting words in someone else's mouth. At no time did I suggest he wasn't the cause of his own doing. You should stop trying to read between the lines and actually read the lines.

Firstly, I can and do read. In fact, my reading interpretation scores are generally off the charts. And I can also read your "subtext", which you deem fit to excuse as, "putting words into your mouth".

IMHO, Kim Dotcom is is a massive pile of flab and over consumption of his own doing. In having done thus to himself, he's made himself fair game for any and all comments he may engender about his, "condition".

 

[captaincranky]

Since this part of my post will most likely get pulled, I'll deliver it separately.

Don't start with your nonsense, pouting, and BS in general. Like, "how I force you into breaking forums rules to deal with me" (*). The, "breaking forum rules" usually digresses to you calling me names.

Get this through your head once and for all; "it takes a troll to know a troll".

The bold face facts here are, you can't out think me, and you can't out write.me, and that's why I stick so firmly in your craw.

The only substantial difference between us is, you're constantly voicing your negative opinions in every thread possible. Which in many cases, are anti-establishment rants, guaranteed to net you the most admiration from our throngs of teenaged dissidents.

I at least have the good taste to go for the humor, pick my topics more carefully, and less frequently.. (IMHO, of course).

(*) Actually what I believe are best described as, "oh woe is me, self pity sulks". That mean old captaincranky has just ruined my whole day...., (again).