He made $300,000,000.00 off MegaUpload off the backs of actual content creators. He knowingly and willingly broke the law. He's scum and he deserves to rot in jail.
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#12He made $300,000,000.00 off MegaUpload off the backs of actual content creators. He knowingly and willingly broke the law. He's scum and he deserves to rot in jail.
It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic.
You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic.
The providers do not know what streams are valid or invalid, and we do not want them to have the ability or right to monitor all of our internet traffic to determine that.
They know that many of their users are likely streaming or downloading media from sources that do not compensate the content creators. But they also know that if they start identifying that, then they'll start being liable.
Kim Dotcom was in the same situation. He knew that people on his platform were likely using it for file storage of files they didn't own the distribution rights to or own a license to have a personal copy of.
He was legally been unable to start going through those and removing access (unless reported through a DMCA-like-mechanism) because then he would be moderating his platform and that opens him up to liability if his moderation tactics are not 100% effective.
Safe Harbor provisions are important and he was trying to keep them in place for his service.
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#13Yet another investment scam from a lifetime fraudster. Isn't he due to change his last name again? Hopefully his undeserved Robin-Hood glamour from government-troubles has faded by now.
I don't know, Megaupload and mega.co.nz are and were legitimate products and services. Surely a fraudster who was after investment scams wouldn't actually deliver products?
One of the few advertised products he's ever delivered, really. There's a decent writeup [0] for some of his past run-ins with the law and crazy claims. Come to think of it, there are some Trumpesque parallels.
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#14There is an interesting pattern developing lately. From the numerous examples: Lavabit relaunch now requires name/personal details on signing up for the email. Now the Megaupload 2.0 will add an exact record to their service. How are all these services that praised anonymity now requiring less of it?
At the end of the day they have to cover their ass. So they are doing things that if they end up in court, they can use to defend themselves.
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#15He made $300,000,000.00 off MegaUpload off the backs of actual content creators. He knowingly and willingly broke the law. He's scum and he deserves to rot in jail.
It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic. You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic. The providers do not know what streams are valid or invalid, and we do not want them to have the ability or right to monitor all of our internet traffic to determine that. They know that many of their users are…
Sad part is for people who used it extensively for legitimate purposes and lost important data. Even businesses.
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#16He made $300,000,000.00 off MegaUpload off the backs of actual content creators. He knowingly and willingly broke the law. He's scum and he deserves to rot in jail.
It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic. You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic. The providers do not know what streams are valid or invalid, and we do not want them to have the ability or right to monitor all of our internet traffic to determine that. They know that many of their users are…
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic. You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic. The providers do not know what streams are valid or invalid, and we do not want them to have the ability or right to monitor all of our internet traffic to determine that. They know that many of their users are…
Sad part is for people who used it extensively for legitimate purposes and lost important data. Even businesses.
I have never heard of a business using Mega.
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#19There is an interesting pattern developing lately. From the numerous examples: Lavabit relaunch now requires name/personal details on signing up for the email. Now the Megaupload 2.0 will add an exact record to their service. How are all these services that praised anonymity now requiring less of it?
Lavabit now accepts Bitcoin and requires no personal information. I just signed up without supplying a name or address and using Bitcoin.
[edit] Also worth noting that I signed up using the Tor Browser Bundle and that there was no issue, no captchas etc.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sad part is for people who used it extensively for legitimate purposes and lost important data. Even businesses.
I have never heard of a business using Mega.
People stored important data, they used megaupload as a "liable" service, not as a toy file sharing for unpaid stuff.
The fact that it was raided and destroyed without a warning made these customer backup disappear overnight.