Two of the four Megaupload execs busted for copyright infringement are going to jail

I did not expect to be writing about Megaupload again, but here we are in the middle of 2023 and two executives/coders/large shareholders of Megaupload, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, have been sentenced to 2.5 years in a New Zealand jail. The Megaupload story should be well known by now - they hosted a shitload of copyrighted material and did practically nothing to remove it when forced to by the copyright owners. In 2012 the FBI prodded New Zealand (where Megaupload's execs, including boss Kim Dotcom was based) to arrest and extradite them to the USA. Finn Batato was diagnosed with terminal cancer during the trial and died a year ago, Kim Dotcom is still appealing his extradition to the USA and these two guys gave and took the relatively sweet deal of just a few months in an NZ jail before they're out on parole.