[148738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joly MacFie)
Fri Jan 20 22:19:09 2012
In-Reply-To: <12460417.5979.1327112445543.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:17:46 -0500
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Technical nuances notwithsatnding, isn't the guts of the case that the
megaupload team wilfully engaged in harbouring infringing files as
evidenced by the email snooping, eg boasting to each other about having
feature movies available prior to release etc.
Similar evidence brought grokster down, and was confirmed by the US Supreme
Court.
j
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