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pkehah
12y ago
Civil lawsuits != prosecution. Different problem than the one that the coward who deleted his posts was talking about. Sadly, we lost context because he hit delete after realizing that he was wrong. That said, YouTube survived those lawsui
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pkehah
12y ago
There's less than zero value in bringing Megaupload into the discussion at all. They're not some 'content hosting site' that was 'aggressively prosecuted'. Megaupload was run by pirates who left mountains of
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pkehah
12y ago
That's an extraordinarily disingenuous description of the status quo. MegaUpload was explicitly meant to host pirated content, and Kim Dotcom (a convicted felon) explicitly arranged for it to be seeded with pirated content. It was pos