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Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

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Re: Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

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Post by illuminate »

ari_elle wrote: post #10

the interesting thing about megaupload as i understand it is, that even though they are protected by the digital millenium copyright act, there was something different in their service. they try to prove that they were knowing that copyright infringement did take place? so as i understand megaupload, there were many many links pointing to the same failes, as they wanted to minimze same uploads, meaning that they got…

As far as I recall, they were not protected as internal emails disclosed not just knowledge of piracy, the company actively encouraged it from within.

Re: Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

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Post by cafard »

joelrunyon wrote: post #9
benologist wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because there rarely is a story, there's just TorrentFreak whose business is pandering to digg (once upon a time), reddit, hn, etc and the people on them who want to believe they're saving the world one pirated movie at a time. The really sad part is it works just as well on hn as it ever did on digg.

Well, if this actually turns up like Kim says it is, then it WILL be a story (right?).

Wow. Do Democratic VPs always run the Internet? (In case you're wondering about partisanship, there's only been one Republican VP since the internet really took off, and he was busy running the world...)

Re: Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

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Post by smashing »

_o99w wrote: post #13

"Romney is simply the better bet for a free Internet." Didn't Romney say something to the effect of 'Porn should be banned on the internet'?

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1]: Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. I don't care what your politics are but the Democratic party is not the party that wants to stop the Republicans[2] from shutting down the Internet as we know it. Most people on HN probably think they do, however.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

[2] This presupposes that the Republican Party want to shut down freedom on the Internet.

Re: Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

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Post by sampsonjs »

smashing wrote: post #14
_o99w wrote: post #13

"Romney is simply the better bet for a free Internet." Didn't Romney say something to the effect of 'Porn should be banned on the internet'?

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1]: Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. I don't care what your politics are but the Democratic party is not the party that wants to stop the Republicans[2] from shutting down the Internet as we know it. Most people on HN probably think they do, however. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... [2] This presupposes that the Republ…

Who knew the DMCA banned porn? Not me, that's for sure!

Re: Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

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Post by smashing »

sampsonjs wrote: post #15
smashing wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1]: Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. I don't care what your politics are but the Democratic party is not the party that wants to stop the Republicans[2] from shutting down the Internet as we know it. Most people on HN probably think they do, however. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... [2] This presupposes that the Republ…

Who knew the DMCA banned porn? Not me, that's for sure!

If the porn is copyrighted then the DMCA will allow the content owners to send a DMCA notice for each copyright infringement. That's the law and now you know it.

Re: Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload

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Post by TylerE »

smashing wrote: post #14
_o99w wrote: post #13

"Romney is simply the better bet for a free Internet." Didn't Romney say something to the effect of 'Porn should be banned on the internet'?

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1]: Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. I don't care what your politics are but the Democratic party is not the party that wants to stop the Republicans[2] from shutting down the Internet as we know it. Most people on HN probably think they do, however. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... [2] This presupposes that the Republ…

For all the blather that gets thrown around about the DMCA, the safe harbor provision is what basically allows a large number of the biggest sites on the internet to operate. Do you think we would have a YouTube without it?
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