To kar se je zgodilo z megaupload.com je prestrašilo marsikaterega ponudnika gostovanja datotek - večino z opravičenim razlogom.
In fact, prosecutors allege that the entire website was specifically designed to encourage piracy. The website provided cash bonuses to users who uploaded content popular enough to prompt mass downloads - such content was almost always copyrighted material.
Stefan Mentzer, an intellectual property partner with the White and Case law firm in New York, said it's likely that Megaupload will try to argue at least two defenses: One is that its service qualifies as a so-called "safe harbor" under Digital Millennium Copyright Act - the federal law governing copyright infringement - if they can show, for instance, that they had no actual knowledge that infringing material was on their system. Another possible defense would be jurisdictional - specifically, that a case can't be brought in the Eastern District of Virginia against a Hong Kong-based company like Megaupload without evidence that they directed criminal activity related to the district.
več: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120121/D9SD28T82.html
Problem je tudi, da se administratorji megaupload.com vedeli kaj imajo na svojih serverjih, kar je razvidno iz emailov na zaseženih serverjih, število takedownov, ki so jih lahko naredili dnevno je bilo najprej 2500 oziroma kasneje je Kim odobril 5000 ... morali pa bi brisati vse, a ne?
Megaupload.com kot recimo tudi filesonic/mediafire/... so plačevali uporabnike, če so drugi downloadali njihove vsebine in nekateri so s tem služli $xxxx na mesec. To samo po sebi ni sporno, dokler ne gledaš na celoto in ti obesijo še spodbujanje piratstva.
@theDegriz, kolikor vem še Kim ni v US in je naslednje zaslišanje v ponedeljek, pa še potem ko/če bo, mu bodo morali dokazat te stvari.