Ah, more of this bullshit. I think this is about 90% hyperbole.
They asked some kid to stop creating systems that circumvent their licensing deals and he wouldn't do it. Then one of the employees appealed directly, using clumsy reasoning, and then loads of people pretended it was a threat and went on an outrage spree.
Nothing is being brought to light. The comment was not well considered but it was so obviously not a threat either.
Some folk took the comment and decided to hyper sensationalise it. In truth, what the Muse guy was trying to say was that he wanted the offending user to see reason and stop hosting software that allowed users to get free access to paid content. His appeal was that is was pointless to risk legal action and he was right. Incidentally, they were well within their rights to pursue legal action. They cannot permit a backdoor to licensed content to exist.
Also worth mentioning that after this incident, they never did pursue legal action - so they obviously found some quiet solution instead. Of course that ruins a good story. God people love outrage so much, they are just unable to see the boring reality of things.
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.
They asked some kid to stop creating systems that circumvent their licensing deals and he wouldn't do it. Then one of the employees appealed directly, using clumsy reasoning, and then loads of people pretended it was a threat and went on an outrage spree.
So tedious and dumb.