Giveaway of the Day Forums

1. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   The MPAA argues that Hotfile is a piracy haven where more than 90% of all downloads are copyright infringing.

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17300225

   Panama-based Hotfile has claimed safe harbour protections under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

   These offer sites immunity if they take down illegal material when asked and protect services such as YouTube from being forced offline if a member uploads someone else's video.

   https://www.scribd.com/doc/84379991/Mpaa-Hotfile-Summary

   DEFENDANTS CANNOT PROVE ENTITLEMENT TO DMCA SAFE HARBOR.?

   http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/169581/mpaa-argues-hotfile-liable-for-users-copyright-in.html

   Posted 12 years ago #
2. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   https://www.eff.org/takedowns

   Bogus copyright and trademark complaints have threatened all kinds of creative expression on the Internet. EFF's Hall Of Shame collects the worst of the worst.

   Posted 12 years ago #
3. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120309/03444518043/mpaas-argument-against-hotfile-assumes-any-popular-content-online-must-be-infringing.shtml

   MPAA's Argument Against Hotfile Assumes Any Popular Content Online Must Be Infringing
   from the and-for-this-they-want-summary-judgment? dept

   When the MPAA filed its initial lawsuit against Hotfile, we noted that we were surprised at just how weak the argument was. Honestly, we thought that for all the talk of how evil Hotfile was, they would have a stronger argument. As expected, the MPAA has now filed for summary judgment in the case.

   In the end, one other thing strikes me about all of this. If the MPAA believes that it has such a slam dunk case here... why did it never sue Megaupload in federal court? Yes, Megaupload is based outside the US... but it has been sued in the US before and took part in the case. So why did the MPAA never actually sue Megaupload?

   Posted 12 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.