RIAA Suing Megaupload For "Massive Copyright Theft"

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Just days after the MPAA filed lawsuit against Kim Dotcom and associates, the RIAA has decided to jump on the bandwagon too.

The RIAA’s 30-page complaint appears to be substantially the same as that filed by the movie studios, with claims that Dotcom and his associates “actively and intentionally” encouraged users to upload infringing copies of popular content in order to distribute those copies to millions of people without a license.
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Megaupload wanted users to upload their personal data to their service so they could get ad revenue from people sharing their files. Whether or not those files were legally obtained was none of their concern.

If you rented a storage unit, and kept 20 kilos of pure Columbian blow in there, distributed it out of the unit, who should go to jail? You or the Storage Company?
 
So we should sue the government for all the drugs that get transported of the Interstate system?

A road, a server, a hammer, a gun. They are all tools. Tools are neither good nor bad, they cannot commit crimes, people can use them to commit crimes, but it's certainly not the tools fault.

We need to stop blaming anything but PEOPLE for crimes.
 
problem is the people involved can understand roads, cars, storage buildings but cannot understand analogies or technology. It would be great if tech czars were tech geeks first.
 
The term "Copyright theft" is an attempt to conflate two very different legal terms. What they're *actually* litigating is "facilitating copyright infringement", but that just doesn't have the emotional punch of "MASSIVE THEFT".
 
Galvin said:
So they going to send in a swat team again?
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They're way past that. Drone strike.

Corporations are people and people have the right to defend themselves and their property. Therefore, they have the right to drone strike Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload.

It's a stretch, but it seems to be where we're heading with that corporations are people bullshit.

Speaking of this, everyone who cares about this country should at least read this: https://movetoamend.org/ It's an attempt to overturn Citizen's United.
 
"with claims that Dotcom and his associates “actively and intentionally” encouraged users to upload infringing copies of popular content in order to distribute those copies to millions of people without a license"

I want proof of this, and not just cause its a file storage service
 
As stated before, we need to put the idea that the MPAA and the RIAA are crucial to the United States and its people in the minds of al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, etc so they'll start attacking them instead of innocent people.
 
plupien79 said:
So we should sue the government for all the drugs that get transported of the Interstate system?

A road, a server, a hammer, a gun. They are all tools. Tools are neither good nor bad, they cannot commit crimes, people can use them to commit crimes, but it's certainly not the tools fault.

We need to stop blaming anything but PEOPLE for crimes.
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Granted, except Kim already said he knew his services were being used for piracy, and when faced with a takedown notice, he would simply make the link not available to those looking for it, but it's still there for those who already know.

I don't like the MPAA and RIAA as much as the next guy, but Kim is hardly innocent himself.
 
Azhar said:
Granted, except Kim already said he knew his services were being used for piracy, and when faced with a takedown notice, he would simply make the link not available to those looking for it, but it's still there for those who already know.

I don't like the MPAA and RIAA as much as the next guy, but Kim is hardly innocent himself.
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I'm pretty sure google and microsoft know that their online storage is also used for sharing files. They're just smart enough not to admit it :D
 
Azhar said:
Granted, except Kim already said he knew his services were being used for piracy, and when faced with a takedown notice, he would simply make the link not available to those looking for it, but it's still there for those who already know.

I don't like the MPAA and RIAA as much as the next guy, but Kim is hardly innocent himself.
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Everyone knew that it was used for piracy. It may not have been the initial idea, but that's what happened. It had little protection against it.
 
I can't wait until Kim Dotcom accidentally beaches himself so his own weight crushes his internal organs and then we don't have to hear about him or the _long_ dead Mega-whatever site he used to run.
 
Jorona said:
If you rented a storage unit, and kept 20 kilos of pure Columbian blow in there, distributed it out of the unit, who should go to jail? You or the Storage Company?
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No, but if you then become aware of it and do nothing about it, and indeed help facilitate/hide the storage of pure Columbian blow, you become implicated in the act. "Willful Blindness" applies as well.
 
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