2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand
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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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I bet prison in NZ is like Mordor.
Why would you think that? New Zealand doesn't have for-profit prisons AFAIK. I think the US has the worst prisons.
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.
Isn't that where they filmed the Lord of the Rings movies?