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I don't think you even need to make a class war argument here.. Just consider prosecuting Google drive engineers in this manner and you see how ridiculously po
by elif 3y ago
I don't think you even need to make a class war argument here..
Just consider prosecuting Google drive engineers in this manner and you see how ridiculously political this is.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoGoogle drive engineers do not run a side-business of actively selling access to drives with copyright infringed content, as far as we know. And there are many similar storage-services without those problems. MegaUpload and others got into those trouble for very obvious reasons, which others in the same business could avoid.
- elif 3y agogoogle drive engineers might sleep fine at night but plenty of people use it for copyright infringement routinely.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoYes, but the google engineers are not encouraging and supporting them with this, unlike MegaUpload. They are also doing their best in preventing it (as I heard), unlike MegaUpload.
- elif 3y agotheir ideas about what they are doing (their ideology) being at problem rather than the their actual actions is precisely what makes this a political crime rather than a technical one.
- zirgs 3y agoThe business model is completely different. Megaupload paid uploaders and charged money from downloaders. So there was incentive to upload popular pirated content to earn money. Google doesn't do this. It charges money for storage space and doesn't pay anything to google drive users. There's zero incentive to share pirated content through google drive.
- elif 3y agoExcept the incentive of not paying to watch movies.