I'd like to put Chevy parts in my BMW, but it's neither Chevy's nor BMW's problem, it's a problem with me feeling self-entitled to have things "my" way regardless the realities of life.

An imbecile makes threats specifically against his ex-wife and local police, then tries to hide behind "freedom of speech" after they took his intimidating and threatening rants (calling them rap lyrics is being way too generous) seriously. I guess he thought this was golf and he'd get a mulligan.

I didn't know Kim Dotcom could fly. Float, maybe.

Besides being the subject of a lot of clickbait, exactly what has he accomplished?

Because then he becomes even more irrelevant than he already is.

Everything is a boring clone of some other game. so lacking the ability to raise capital through the usual investment channels this one has decided to fleece the kickstarter crowd.

Any decision he disagrees with is a) any document or rule he disagrees with is toxic, b) any decision he disagrees with is misguided, and c) he's taking his ball and going home.

Recognizing the value of an asset (e.g. stocks, bonds, paintings, sculptures and etc.) doesn't confer legitimacy as a currency.

There is no democratic process in international treaties and agreements and only a naive person would suggest there was. In international trade, as in any business agreement or contract negotiation, both parties are out to get as much from the other side in the agreement as they can while giving up as little as possible. And as negotiations proceed it's common for things to be included in the bargaining that the proposer has no intention of actually giving away or accepting ... it's just part of the negotiations. Open the negotiations up publicly and no deal would ever be reached because neither side would be allowed to compromise.

the press is too busy pretending to be a news organization to impersonate a government organization.

It doesn't matter what you call it ... declining or dilution ... the end result is fewer women in CS career fields than men. The effect is less a less robust CS field and the resulting negatives that come along with a technology field operating with blinders.

I love when someone writes drivel assuming what they think is what everyone needs or wants.

And then you connected to the internet to make it all work and your emails and files were routed through Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft datacenters and your effort was wasted.

Every country (and reasonably sized corporation) on the planet is doing the same thing, always has done the same thing, always will do the same thing. Only fools believe their online activity is safe from snooping or ever will be.

Remember the old adage; don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Ross needs to stop whining and pull up his big boy pants and take what he's got coming. If it hadn't been the US gov't it would have been another gov't that took him down. Ross should be happy it was the USA. Some of the less polite gov'ts would have just wacked him, dumped him in the ocean, and saved the legal expenses.