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Originally Posted by knc1
megaupload.com MUST have been doing someing much worse than posting the wrong files.
As BMBB posted, in the USA it is up to the copyright holder to defend their rights (with take-down orders).
[Not that I am suddenly a supporter of "Big Brother" - BB can defend itself.]
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Not megaupload.com that did something wrong -- they were busted because a piss-ant little law firm that buys "Intellectual Property" from porn sites went after one of the OTHER (porn) websites owned by the same people as megaupload.com. According to what I read about this, claims like this can usually be ignored, but this time the website owners chose to defend themselves, and a (big media company-friendly) judge decided against them. That gave the feds a crack in the door to step through, when they needed some publicity to show that they had "balls" due to recent news events.
This was in the news, if you clicked the links a few levels deep (and you were interested enough to do that). Megaupload fell victim to politics after thinking that they should defend themselves against a weak claim by an "ambulance chaser" IP law firm (or at least that is how I choose to interpret what I read on the internet, and we all know that if information is found on the internet, it must be true).
