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by matheusmoreira 1273 days ago
Bullshit. What they did is called veiled threat of violence. They implicitly threatened to sue him, an act that threatens his legal permanence in the US if convicted. They thought far enough about the consequences of their actions that they reminded him of the possibility of being arrested, tortured and disappeared in China for wrongthink if deported.

I really don't give a shit if he infringed a million copyrights. Not a single person on this earth deserves that fate, especially not over copyright infringement. That's seriously disgusting.