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Megaupload dares the RIAA to sue it
CYBERLOCKER Megaupload has dared the RIAA and MPAA entertainment cartels to sue it.
Big media companies have been getting rather cross lately with cyberlocking companies by leaning on Mastercard to block financial transaction to them. Earlier this week the RIAA called them "rogue websites".
Cyberlockers are websites that host large files for their users. They enable users to download those files and save some outfits' bandwidth costs.
Megaupload has hit back saying that it is not up to payment processors to take the law into their own hands.
Bonnie Lam of Megaupload said that it is not up to them, rather than elected governments, to decide what's right and what's wrong.
Otherwise we would be getting into the silly situation where people cast their votes by choosing a conservative or a liberal credit card, she said.
Lam told Zeropaid that the loss of Mastercard will not be a problem for the website, as the majority of Megaupload's cash comes from advertising and a ban would have little effect.
Lam said that Megaupload is a legitimate business that operates within the law. She said it has never been sued by a single content owner in five years and if the RIAA or MPAA had legal grounds to shut it down they would have done so.
She suggested that the media cartels should be attacking within the legal system and stop labelling the company until they have something to show that will stand up in a court of law.
Lam said that Megaupload has more than 100 million registered users and 45 million unique visitors daily. She claimed that more than 70 per cent of the world's Fortune 500 companies have accounts with the outfit.
With more than a billion legitimate files, if Mastercard turns against Megaupload it will have a problem, as the only one who will lose is Mastercard, she said. Of course if the company was in Blighty it could sue for defamation. µ
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"Yes if the storage facility was facilitating the illegal theft of property they most certainly would be convicted as an accomplice".
How do train stations and self storage depots assist "theft" (it's copyright infringement btw, not piracy) any more than megaupload? Idiot. May as well prosecute schools because some students store weed in their lockers. Prosecute the municipalities for the fact that drug running happens on their streets. Quite the fool u are, "bob"
The media cartels (run by the very few privileged, infinitely wealthy and infinitely powerful) are not stupid. They know exactly what they are doing by striking down everyone and everything that dares go against their business model/profit line. They (and their very few privileged, infinitely wealthy and infinitely powerful ancestors) have been refining their tactics for hundreds of years. They are experts.
They operate on the following principles (study history and you will notice this pattern being successfully used over and over again):
1) Demonize your opponents via propaganda through the medias (which of course you or your friends just happen to own and control). Use powerful and suggestive negative labels to make the general public and lawmakers loath them. Brainwash everyone in to loathing them.
Some powerful examples that have been used against disliked groups throughout history are; a threat to jobs, homeland security and families. In addition disliked groups should be labeled as homosexuals, pedophiles, dangerous, rogue, deviants, deranged, criminals, terrorists, threats, radicals, etc.
2) If your opponents dare to try to protect themselves, repeat step one and use other powerful negative labels if they try to defend themselves.
4) Hire lobby groups to brainwash government officials to ensure that they are are buying your propaganda.
5) Bribe lawmakers. Threaten lawmakers. Force them to do exactly what you want.
6) Once you've brainwashed the public and lawmakers, have the lawmakers enact laws in your favor including ones that take away or violates civil rights and freedoms.
7) The new laws should turn all of the public and governments services in to your puppet. The police, military and even the most powerful elite intelligence services are now at your disposal at the expense of the taxpayer.
8) In the courts, the laws are now all in your favor and no matter what you will win by default with or without proof or evidence offering ridiculously high settlements that are set BY the cartel without any justification or reason.
9) Like in chess, blanket the legal system with laws that eventually make everyone and everything win in your favor. This leads to new precedences allowing you to win by default no matter who you go against.
10) Extract as much money as you can from your opponents through your lawsuits. Intimidate everyone that dares go against you. Make examples of others that can not afford to defend themselves to show everyone else that you have the power to destroy the lives of everyone whether it be the future of entire families, children, the elderly, etc.
11) If a foreign government does not bend to your ideals; use these same tactics against them.
This is what the RIAA/MPAA does and they do this all very methodically.
The world is in denial, all the financial institutions still believe they have clout and are now thrashing about. Commerce in general is having a difficult time and collaboration such as this is not unexpected. Fact of the matter is, people are awakening to the idea of things being online and free/cheap. Soon, royalties will be a thing of the past. This is a fact. Residual payments, are gone. It's already happened to other "entertainment" industries, now the mainstream will feel the hurt. Technology prices go lower, but current salaries in the entertainment business stay high, and it's unsustainable, and suddenly people say "you're killing our industry!!" Listen, the MP3 from the day it was unleashed on the world, killed the industry. The day Mpeg's came along, the movie industry was doomed. Now the industry, a decade and a half later, are complaining that their industry is dying?
There is no saving the entertainment industry if it refuses to be flexible, and by flexible I mean work with technology's imposed limitations. If megaupload can claim to make money without payments and distribute content, then so can the entertainment industry - they just refuse to act like the rest of the world and take a $100,000 pay cut. AMD did it, man up and maybe people will actually support you.
Indie is the way of the future and Indie isn't all that bad for content. Makes no difference to me whether the Industry wishes bend, or break. Most content out there is garbage anyway.
*I THINK* that it would be 182% more congruent for organizations like the RIAA's/MPAA's financial agenda if less time were spent on the Legal avenue, and more time(thus capital) be invested in a solution such as...EVOLVING with digital winds of change. As long as a connection to and network, internet or otherwise, exists...people are going to download. Period.
It's amazing the ignorance displayed by some folks in denial. Yes if the storage facility was facilitating the illegal theft of property they most certainly would be convicted as an accomplice. See the Pirate Bay Boys as a reference. They talked shitze and ended up with prison sentences and millions in fines. Being in denial is not a good legal defense.
It's a good thing stupidity isn't a crime or some folks would have a permanent home in prison.
Does it mean it's time to sue waterparks and railway stations for lockers? Someone could put stolen goods there and actually many times did already. :)
I am tired of the whole world bending over for MAFIAA. :|
...also known as a lose/lose or a double bind.
Megaupload may not technically perform infringement themselves, but they certainly make it easier for others to do so. On the other hand, they do provide some useful and valuable services.
Given the choice between supporting Megaupload on the one hand, or a tag-team including the RIAA and members of the credit-card industry on the other hand, I'll support Megaupload. I believe that a workable solution to third-party copyright infringement can be crafted.
Allowing the RIAA and/or the credit-card industry to determine who is or is not allowed to make use of the international credit system would essentially give the bankers and debit traders de facto control of the world's purse strings. I do not fancy the idea that Visa should have the right and/or the power to tell me what I can or cannot sell on Ebay.
Glad to see someone finally standing up that has capital. Like to see more companies doing this, from the comments here, I guess not only do they love to get rimmed by the music industry but also they will not mind when they have to pay extra when the ISP decides to change the rules.
Or maybe RIAA goonies have to much time on their hand and like to post on anything dealing with them.
If MegaLoad is violating copyright laws I hope the RIAA and MPAA sues them bankrupt, shuts them down and imprisons their owners.
As an author who has been obliged to send repeated DMCA notices to Megaupload, I would disagree with Bonnie Lam when she alleges that her site is "fully compliant with copyright safeguards already. It has a mechanism by which rightsholders can demand infringing material to be taken down."
OCILLA (DMCA #512) requires that repeat copyright infringers' accounts are removed. Megaupload does not do this, although the TOS give it the power.
Quote "Section 512(c) applies to OSPs that store infringing material. In addition to the two general requirements that OSPs comply with standard technical measures and remove repeat infringers, ยง 512(c) also requires that the OSP: 1) not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, 2) not be aware of the presence of infringing material or know any facts or circumstances that would make infringing material apparent, and 3) upon receiving notice from copyright owners or their agents, act expeditiously to remove the purported infringing material."
So, maybe RIAA would win. Now, that would be interesting.
Mega Troubles Start When Court Is Convened. Public LAW Turns Sour With Private Enterprise Taking Over Courtroom Bench.
Radio italee' Agency, Based In Marin County, Calif,USA Founded at Marin County Milatary Institute Way Back When, Morphed Into RIAA, Will Burn Public Law, Constitutional Law, US CODE & any other defense With Deafness Resounding.
Their Judge, Inspite of Defendant Right to Picking Hon Judge for Case, Becomes Look Alike Contest. Monacur' Takes Over, Do People Have Copyright Upon One Hon Judge, Picked By One Defendant for One Case. Apparently NOT.
If Winning case Is Presented, Often Defendant Is Moved to Next CourtRoom, Again To Be Tried by Imposter Judge Whom has Clearer idea of Defense & Negation, On Second Speak, In New Courtroom.
If Mega Can Sustain ItSelf In Court, Might Think, Iverson RadiaLogic or Russia as next BattleGround, As Fight for Word Never Ends, Pure Money Is BET .
vondrashek Radiologist.