Megaupload got taken down for copyright violations by the feds today with current law. [via]
I don’t know about Megaupload- because it was an FBI thing, and I assume something more than copyright violation was going on, but under existing law, DMCA, 350 websites were seized by ICE (which apparently enforces DMCA for some reason?) between June 30, 2010 and November 28, 2011.
Things that don’t make sense: ICE enforcing DMCA.
But, yeah, according to the indictment executives made servers specifically available to copy youtube videos and gave money to people who uploaded specific copyrighted materials (among other things). But yeah, my favorite thing about the entire indictment is:
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Question, under DMCA weren’t web sites supposed to remove the copyrighted material? That’s it? So repeated violations meant taking the entire web site down?
(Source: jarebeardontcare)
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I think 99% of DMCA was self policing. the offending sites that ICE takes down are all for the most part foreign owned...
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Question, under DMCA weren’t web sites supposed to remove the copyrighted material? That’s it? So repeated violations...
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