[148759] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jan 21 21:27:22 2012
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:26:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAM9VJk1cMKGj2P1CG_SghDf6DLOM+xFDH74_R6h-nx9zVk4BXg@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joly MacFie" <joly@punkcast.com>
> 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.
That appears to be the case at this time, based on things which are hearsay
to we the public, and should not have been released.
But "has a substantially non-infringing use" is, if not a defense, a fact
which should have made them *much* more careful in how they did the take
down, a response which is all of a piece with our objections to SOPA.
Cheers,
-- jra
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