Apple co-founder Woz defends MegaUpload's Kim DotCom

26.06.2012

"I scratch my head wondering why the studios went after the guy doing more than can be imagined to remove the links the studios wanted removed," Wozniak added.

"There are so many legitimate uses to peer-to-peer file sharing and cloud storage," he said, noting that while "copyright violation is wrong" he feels that being too heavy handed could "halt the progress of the digital age."

Woz pointed to Apple as "the pioneer in finding the first good compromise with iTunes."

"When you can't stop something like a steamroller get out of the way." Wozniak wrote.