The UK stormed the Libyan embassy way back in the 1980s to capture a gunman who had shot a British police officer. This is a totally different situation and will be very interesting to see who the diplomatic world reacts.

Who is this chick Venus and why is she driving a Transit?

...the close resemblance between Rupert Murdoch and Emperor Palpatine...?

Your point would be wonderfully made, if not for the fact that Earth is at the bottom of the gravity well and the Moon is near the top. If there was crude oil on the moon (or any other useful energy-bearing ore), all that would be needed would be to get it to free-return trajectory, which is a whole lot less than raising it to LEO from Earth.

Employees are not yet in US custody. They are currently being held by New Zealand authorities (in court as I type this) pending extradition hearings. The extradition is not automatic and is being contested.

"I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that darn Cisco Kid"

That's acute pun.

I have not noticed any difference in total international traffic at the ISP which I run between now and before the new law came into force. I do notice more VPN and seedbox traffic on residential connections and less UDP torrent traffic.

I am also yet to see a copyright infringement notice properly formatted with the requirements of the new legislation. I have bot even received an automated form letter from a rights owner, as used to be the case on a regular basis.

No rightsowner, or agent thereof has been in contact, nor RIANZ or NZFACT to discuss the relationship between the rightsowners and the designated IPAPs.

As a so-called IPAP, I have so far received a Grand Total of Zero infringement notices for my netblocks.

So you mean that you demo'ed wireless gear by turning it into wired gear?

So the entire eBay VM operation could fit into 6 racks? 200 physical servers @ 1RU each = 5 racks 10x 10TB 2U SSDs = half a rack 5x 2U switches = quarter rack

All that law enforcement needs to do is to purchase payload delivery on the botnet and include commands to delete Windows from each offending PC. Alternatively, they just need to place copyrighted material on each host and send in the MPAA and RIAA with infringement notices. That should get the job done.

...and then Vatican City will be consumed by light.

If you are asking on here at that level of naivete, you are probably already compromised.

The movie grossed $103 million at the US box office

Assuming a movie ticket price of $20, this means that 5.3 million people saw the movie in theatres. These guys are suing 23222 people, or about 230 times fewer

At $150K per defendant, the potential works out to $3.48billion or roughly 33 times the US gross (and $700million more than the highest grossing movie ever - Avatar

My business pitch to the movie studios would be: "Straight to torrent then litigate - that's where the money is..."