U.S. prosecutors say Megaupload raked in at least $175 million — mainly from people who used the site to illegally download songs, television shows and movies -— before the FBI shut it down in early 2012 and arrested Dotcom and other company officers.

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    Why would you think that? New Zealand doesn’t have for-profit prisons AFAIK. I think the US has the worst prisons.

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      I think they were just making a Lord of the Rings joke because the movies were filmed in New Zealand. I don’t think they really believe that New Zealand prisons are bad.

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        What does LoTR have to do with prisons? The only “prison” featured was the Tower of Isengard. It had one prisoner who escaped because there were no walls.

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        …Yes.

        And where they’re making smoking tobacco illegal. And where they lead a very successful COVID education campaign, better than probably any other country in the world.