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Originally Posted by azazel1024
For Megaupload. Well, they certainly complied with most of the safe harbor provisions of DMCA, but they can't really claim to be a truely legitimate business as their primary method of income was related to/because of copyright infringement even if they weren't directly violating copyrights and were pretty quick about take-downs.
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That makes an interesting point.
Assuming they did comply with take-downs (I don't know in this case), then hypothetically, any site that allows user content and generates revenue directly or indirectly (for example the pirate bay was indirectly making revenue) based on that service is a potential candidate for the same treatment that MegaUpload got? Regardless of whether or not they make an attempt to comply with the DMCA?
If they really did comply with the DMCA, and the US shut them down anyway, doesn't that make safe harbor useless? Couldn't the US then go after any user generated content site that they wanted to? Is it OK as long as it only happens to sites that we don't like?