btw, big gov backs the big music industry, just like the big banks- that's the key difference. If we buy something the gov tells us not too, especially something that challenges or even usurps it's establishment and government big banking- than you are seen as it's enemy, and do you find yourself surprised that the gov won't help you get back the bitcoins you hope to usurp it with?
im sorry to inform you but governments have not said bitcoins are a no, no.. infact major governments are in the middle of making regulations, this means they recognise it as something people want and that they need to monitor the sale/purchase of.
There's the difference. It's a bit like being a freedom fighter in Ukraine now and then complaining to that government who you are fighting against that a fellow rebel stole your cache of ammo and RPG's. Oh... waaaa.
the ukraine scenario is where protestors held cops and government members hostage.. but now the cops and government members have an arrest warrant. not for protesters, but for their own leader.. well ex leader now he has ran off to the border.
The moral of this is, if you are going to go against the banking industry, the national currency, and create your own 'currency' outside the safety net of regulated fiat AML KYC suable structures, then you don't have much to say if you lose your stuff. You can't go crying to big banking, big gov and plead with them for help.
bitcoin is not against FIAT, it is beside fiat. much like the euro is beside the dollar, or the pound. its just another currency. Bitcoin is not designed to remove FIAT from the face of the planet, its designed to give people choices. and my last post gave 2 examples that authorities do actually know the difference between legitimate users of bitcoin, and users that have done illegal activities using bitcoin (pirate@40, DPR, Shrem) so dont even try saying the authorities don't get involved.
-Sorry guys. If it's really the wild west here in Bitcoinia, then confront Gox people wild west style, -yourself (not with guns obviously.)
-It seems that no sheriff is going to save you.
i seriously think anyone trying to say that a class action cannot happen, are either trolls trying to bait a argument. or friends of karpeles trying to dissuade people from following it through.
and my last 'opinion'... the guys that are protesting outside mtgox offices should be the ones that front the lawsuit. they are already in the country which makes taking karpeles to court much easier to handle.
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i just read how some of you think class actions don't exist in japan..... you seriously need to get your head out of the san and research once in a while..
try researching QCO's.. infact i know you are lazy so ill just link you one result
http://www.amt-law.com/pdf/bulletins3_pdf/120518.pdf