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This is not a new battle. Essentially the same legal arguments justified the MegaVideo takedown, where the MPAA convinced US military to invade their servers/HQ
by mushufasa 7y ago
This is not a new battle. Essentially the same legal arguments justified the MegaVideo takedown, where the MPAA convinced US military to invade their servers/HQ in New Zealand -- a legal battle that is still ongoing. When something goes wrong, shoot the messenger. You can always claim they should have done more.
But I have faith in the legal team from Microsoft. Capital One though...
- azernik 7y ago"Convinced the US military"?? They filed a request for extradition, and local police arrested him.
- ma2rten 7y agoI don't think it's exactly same. The MegaVideo case was about copyright. That is normally protected by DMCA, but they have some proof that MegaVideo employees uploaded copyrighted material themselves. This case, on the hand, is not about copyright but privacy sensitive data.
- tzs 7y agoDo you mean Megaupload? If so, it isn't essentially the same thing at all. Megaupload was deliberately hosting content without permission of the copyright holders, pretending to remove it when notified but actually just invalidating the particular URLs that the copyright holders knew about but keeping the material available at different URLs. Their business model was to be a piracy site. If you can find a copy of the original Megaupload indictment, it includes several emails between Kim Dotcom and other top Megaupload people that lay this all out.