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Megaupload was not your plausible deniability-sort of file upload service. There is loads of evidence of the Megaupload team getting a bunch of copyrighted con
by rtpg 12y ago
Megaupload was not your plausible deniability-sort of file upload service.
There is loads of evidence of the Megaupload team getting a bunch of copyrighted content and putting it up there. The team themselves. Can't really hide behind safe harbor with that.
If I were handing out burned DVDs of movies to people, I'd probably get arrested too (even if selling DVD burning equipment would be fine).
- blowski 12y agoI agree. There really is no question that the folks working on MegaUpload knew that it would be used predominantly for illegally sharing copyrighted material. The questions are whether that should be illegal, what it means to do something in one country that's accessible but illegal in another, and how it should be punishable. As I see it, employees of Megaupload must have known the risks they were running, so we can't say it's unfair to punish them. We should be actively pushing for legal framework regarding the sharing of copyrighted material, instead of just whining about the punishment meted out to those who took advantage of the current chaos.
- tomp 12y agoThat has nothing to do with my post. I just said that the damage Madoff did was an order of magnitude worse than what Mega did.
- blowski 12y agoAnd Madoff received a prison sentence that was greater by an order of magnitude. Nomm got 1 year, Madoff got 150.