Here's the part I don't get: IP addresses, file ownership and payment info are stored unencrypted ( http://bit.ly/VswkJi ). If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the dat…
Here's the part I don't get: IP addresses, file ownership and payment info are stored unencrypted ( http://bit.ly/VswkJi ). If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the dat…
Encryption is only a legal defense for Mega and their partners, but i'm really waiting to see how the Dotcom campain will change after the first bust
I believe encryption will buy them some time until the law catches up, then poof.
I just noticed something: Mega's cloud loading image seems to be a slightly altered rip of this image from Stripe's website, just animated. Mega [ http://i.imgur.com/PH90lZ3.png ] Stripe [ https://stripe.com/img/frontpage/api-cloud.png ]
Here's the part I don't get: IP addresses, file ownership and payment info are stored unencrypted ( http://bit.ly/VswkJi ). If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the dat…
If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the data on there.
Has that ever happened in a copyright case? I get the impression that police are too busy with actual crime to investigate anything less than mega-size infringement.
I just noticed something: Mega's cloud loading image seems to be a slightly altered rip of this image from Stripe's website, just animated. Mega [ http://i.imgur.com/PH90lZ3.png ] Stripe [ https://stripe.com/img/frontpage/api-cloud.png ]
Well, arguably, neither is terribly original http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThereIsOnlyOneCloudIconInTheEn...
Here's the part I don't get: IP addresses, file ownership and payment info are stored unencrypted ( http://bit.ly/VswkJi ). If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the dat…
If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the data on there. Has that ever happened in a copyright case? I get the impression that police are too busy with actual crime to i…
They go after the so-called release groups, too, if the news is to be believed.
Here's the part I don't get: IP addresses, file ownership and payment info are stored unencrypted ( http://bit.ly/VswkJi ). If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the dat…
If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the data on there. Has that ever happened in a copyright case? I get the impression that police are too busy with actual crime to i…
Yes, frequently. Typically media does not cover smaller instances of a copyright investigation and thus the impression that this only happens in mega-sized instances.
This being a publicly available index pointing to data stored, I can only assume that encrypted or not the owner of 'mega' is still liable for any copyrighted material hosted.
Presumably they never look at such indicies so they'd only be liable after someone notified them of infringement.
Willful blindness isn't a particularly strong defense. Aimster tried it and failed.
Well, arguably, neither is terribly original http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThereIsOnlyOneCloudIconInTheEn...
It's not just the cloud-- the gears too.
SingleHop uses a very similar cloud + background icon motif (be it gears, a server or another object) throughout their site as well. Seems to be fairly common.