[148719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Fri Jan 20 15:06:28 2012
To: nanog@nanog.org, "Paul Graydon" <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:06:04 -0500
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F19C26C.4010909@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:37:16 -0500, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
wrote:
> ... Whenever they received a DMCA take-down they would remove the link,
> not the underlying file, so even though they knew that a file was
> illegally hosted, they never actually removed it.
And that's where their safe harbour evaporated. Upon receiving notice a
file is infinging, they know that *file* is illegal, and must now remove
all the links to it, not just the one that was reported. Mega is in a
possition to know all the links, where as the copyright holder is not.
They thought they had a gaping loophole. Well, the DOJ is about to teach
them how wrong they are.
