"Safe harbor" in the DMCA only applies if you don't have knowledge of the infringing content that your hosting. Considering that they have internal emails of them bragging about copyrighted content and apparently uploading some copyrighted stuff themselves they are more or less fucked.
However, you did not have to pay to get access to the content in the first place. They essentially sold bandwidth, not the content; and that is an important distinction to make in legal matters concerning the internet. There are dozens of file sharing sites nearly as popular as MegaUpload, yet they are still up. The real…
MegaUpload was in compliance with the DMCA actually, removing all files that were reportedly infringed. It isn't their fault that people upload faster than they can search and delete. How much of the content on YouTube is actually original content? YouTube was born from the very concept of sharing content. The biggest…
the most messed up part was it said that even quoted copyrighted content in emails and documents could be considered infringing. so if it goes that far how are people supposed to research anything or make arrangements when they cant even quote there source.
My question is if this is targeted at any website with infringing content could we as artists with portfolio site with video of our games, models, etc be charged? Could our portfolio site be taken down without any cease and desist or letter if this is the case? Sorry there is so much to this and a lot of it is insanity but…
THE SECRET TREATY: ACTA and Its Impact on Access to Medicines "ACTA is part of the enforcement agenda advanced by rich countries outside of multilateral norm-setting institutions. ACTA would impose limits on price-reducing generic competition and jeopardize the free flow of legitimate medicines across borders. These…
Ireland and the EU signed the document, now it can be voted for turning into law in the European Parliament. So there's still a chance it's rejected before it can actually affect us if us EU folk petition our country's MEPs to distance themselves from ACTA and effectively vote against it.…
It isn't, and MediaFire (as well as sites like it) WILL be next. That's a terrible article to be honest. And CEO Kim Dotcom sent this curious e-mail to PayPal in late 2011: Our legal team in the US is currently preparing to sue some of our competitors and expose their criminal activity. We like to give you a heads up and…
Of course, Every anonymous derp will arise from the cut to try and fight the higher power instead of doing it the fair and square way. Im extremely worried about this though it feels like The world will turn out like those one scenes in movies where people are wearing extremely tight and silver/white spandex and Google has…