The indictment papers specifically claim that megaupload was also dedupping files (general allegation 22.) That's related to their claim that the DMCA take dow

The indictment papers specifically claim that megaupload was also dedupping files (general allegation 22.) That's related to their claim that the DMCA take down requests weren't honored: Allegedly, while appearing to comply with requests to remove infringing content, they would merely take down the reported links, yet would keep alternate links to the same md5-hash-matching content working.