[148721] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joly MacFie)
Fri Jan 20 15:07:59 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F19C26C.4010909@paulgraydon.co.uk>
From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:06:35 -0500
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
aka "deduplication".
In Viacom vs. YouTube it was pretty successfully argued that there was no
way for YT to know that *every* instance of a work was illegally uploaded.
However they *were* able to produce 'smoking gun' evidence of Viacom agents
uploading material.
j
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> From what I understand about MegaUpload's approach, they created a hash
> of every file that they stored. If they'd already got a copy of the file
> that was to be uploaded they'd just put an appropriate link in a users
> space, saving them storage space, and bandwidth for both parties. Fairly
> straight forward. 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. That comes up
> for some argument about the ways the company should be practically
> enforcing a DMCA take-down notice, whether each take-down should apply to
> just an individual user's link to a file or whether the file itself should
> be removed. That could be different from circumstance to circumstance.
>
> Paul
>
>
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