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Yes, and equally great if criminals got convicted instead of awarded damages.

• cLeEOGPw 13y ago
  What was his crime? Bribery?
  • earbitscom 13y ago
    Sort of, yes. He incentivized users to upload popular content for credit on their service knowing full well that the popular content was generally copyrighted. There is a legal difference between letting users upload files for storage, or files they own for sharing, then trying to squash the copyrighted material you do get, vs actively incentivizing users to upload infringing material and then taking it down while you pay the next guy to upload it again.
    • makomk 13y ago
      Not really. MegaUpload's ToS said that they wouldn't pay out rewards to people who uploaded pirated content, and they actually enforced it - probably because it cut their costs by quite a bit, but they did enforce it. This was, from what I recall, fairly well known at the time amongst people who'd have otherwise considered uploading pirated content for profit.