[dekz]

From what I've read about Dotcom he seems like a shady guy. But in all honesty, how is he worth persuing over some drug cartel in a different country. (Note: I'm not making an opinion on whether drugs should be legal or illegal). Was it really worth the potential international relations fiasco, dollars spent on investigators; agents et al. All this wasted time and money to go after a set of people who have allowed internet users to write 1's and 0's and share them.

Oh the humanity! How can these people be allowed to live. /s

The time for cyber villans is not now, when the streets are still full of their ancestors.

[rbanffy]

Considering some people will neither stop doing drugs nor sharing copyrighted files against the copyright holders' will, the authorities felt they could go against the folks who were least likely to shoot back.

Now, seriously, comparing the amount of misery illegal drugs cause with the amount illegal file sharing does is, at best, ludicrous. It's like all the more serious problems are solved and now they have to turn their attention to the copyright infringers.