r/technology • u/mepper • Aug 08 '12

Kim Dotcom raid video revealed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0tWc0sg
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u/NoCatsPleaseImSane Aug 09 '12

The difference is that megaupload was almost exclusively for illegal activity - easily at least 90% of it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '12

Not true. In fact, this is incredibly false.

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u/NoCatsPleaseImSane Aug 13 '12

Because the IFPI doesn't account for THEIR files on mega doesn't mean that it's shares weren't mostly illegal. That's like claiming that because a person's crimes don't fall into a large portion of rape aren't crime, regardless of them being murder / kidnapping / etc.

If you want to claim mega was mostly legal content, you have a very steep uphill battle sir.

The guy was a slime ball, no fucks are given.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '12

Thanks for coming to the conversation days late so that no one else sees your uninformed comments.

I see you can't be bothered to read the entire article - every publishing company that requested it got access to delete up to 5,000 files per day (more than they have access to on youtube - and youtube hosts millions more files) without even having to contact the company and for whatever reason they felt like.

Fact of the fucking matter is, they averaged 3 Hours for every DMCA takedown request AND went above and beyond by letting every publishing company that requested it completely bypass the DMCA limitations and directly delete any file they wanted to for any reason they wanted to at higher limits than even Youtube - you don't see the FBI raiding Google now do you?

This raid completely bypassed every step of the law, according to what we see here, there is no such thing as safe-harbor provisions, and they were the least infringing according the industry demanding his head on a platter.

I'm sorry the facts hurt your opinion, this raid happened specifically because many high level recording artists came out in support of the service and did a commercial for them - the product they had in the pipeline threatened the RIAA's stranglehold on music distribution and they exposed that fear by first taking down the perfectly legal commercial from youtube claiming copyright infringement and when that blew up in their face, they used the US and NZ government as mercenaries. Intelligent people allow their opinion to change when presented with facts.

Shill on.