Quote from: Brooker on March 01, 2015, 11:56:19 AM

Quote from: rszibele on March 01, 2015, 11:21:53 AM

Quote from: DGulari on February 27, 2015, 03:09:51 PM

Kim DotCom is a disgusting bloated fat pig. He peddles in illegal stolen wares. He profits from the illicit use of other people's creations. Most around here don't like copyright, but it remains legitimate law. Nerds love 'free' movies, but it is killing the people who produce movies just like the music industry.

Do we really need to have bitcoin involved in more criminal uses? Do we really want to associate bitcoin as this go to tool for assholes who want to steal?

Bitcoin will be great as soon as we get rid of the anarchy assholes think its primary use is to traverse the law.

Kim Schmitz is merely a dirty filthbag. I don't accept him as an ambassador for Bitcoin.

You are ignoring the fact that Megaupload gave entertainment companies direct access to Megaupload's servers, allowing copyright owners to delete infringing content themselves. Megaupload also deleted content if you filed a DMCA complaint, so your arguments are completely baseless and your name-calling is also not appropriate.

Do you have a solid source for this? I find it hard to believe they gave companies direct access though I'm sure they complied with DMCA notcies as would most file hosting sites.

I've read it on an article about a year or two ago, but Kim Dotcom also created a whitepaper in which he states:

http://kim.com/whitepaper.pdf
Page 4, Last paragraph:

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While Megaupload systematically responded to countless DMCA take-down notices, it went even
further to guard against copyright violations. It voluntarily gave major copyright holders direct
access to its servers to remove links they considered to be infringing without any oversight by
Megaupload and without requiring them to follow statutory take-down notice procedures.

My previous post is incorrect though, they gave direct access to delete links, but not data. I presume this is the reason that they lost the court case, as the DMCA actually requires you do delete the data, not just block access to it.