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Originally Posted by Azure
Megaupload is to blame, but the Feds didn't exactly use their brains when they took it all down. They could have just as easily gotten access to the servers, and started removing illegal files....and given users with legal files 48 hours to remove all their stuff. Instead they just shut everything down, which is pretty dumb.
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You would give the government full access to everyone's files because the website administration was blatantly unwilling to fulfill their legal obligation to remove items indicated by a DCMA take down notice?
I get that you want the website to be still functioning. I get that people got screwed by this. This is MegaUpload's fault though. They knew what they were hosting and chose to take a chance that they wouldn't get shut down. Almost every user of MegaUpload knew, or should have known, that the website was used in violation of copyright laws. I was completely aware of it, and I had probably downloaded 10 or less things from the website the entire time it existed.
If your business model, I don't care how enterprising or how much of a good idea it is, is knowingly to you, being used in illegal activities AND you resist all attempts by the justice system to attempt to bring your business into compliance, then you are at fault.