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Users are required to hand over encryption keys in several countries, including the UK. Worse, encryption keys are likely to find their way to Google ("check ou
by JoachimSchipper 14y ago
Users are required to hand over encryption keys in several countries, including the UK. Worse, encryption keys are likely to find their way to Google ("check out this great $POPULAR_ARTIST song: www.mega.com/mykey"), so proving that Mega hosts lots of infringing content will be really easy. Finally, Mega can easily detect such files just by looking at the access patterns (10MB plus lots of hits from all over the world? Likely pirated MP3.)
Of course, all of this assumes that they get the crypto right in the first place.
- learc83 14y ago>Mega can easily detect such files just by looking at the access patterns (10MB plus lots of hits from all over the world? Likely pirated MP3.) How is that pattern any different from a musician legitimately distributing an mp3?
- JoachimSchipper 14y agoMusicians legitimately distributing their songs don't get any hits. (No musician likely to generate a pirate-ish number of hits is going to use Mega to distribute the song - people who make money don't send their users to sites with completely different branding.)
- learc83 14y agoYou can say that, but there's no way to prove it short of commissioning a study. I don't think the DMCA requires you to hire statisticians to investigate the usage patterns of your site. And what if someone uploads a wikileaks like pdf that gets downloaded by thousands of people? Is that going to get automatically shut off.
- goatforce5 14y agoPlenty of musicians post the official copies of their music videos on YouTube (and don't always embed the videos directly on their own site).
- makomk 14y agoOr - to name a random example - a Linux device driver perhaps?
- gweinberg 14y agoWell, if the encryption is in client side javascript, people should be able to find any flaws in it pretty quickly.