20 Jan
2012
20 Jan
'12
3:06 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:37:16 -0500, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote:
... Whenever they received a DMCA take-down they would remove the link, not the underlying file, so even though they knew that a file was illegally hosted, they never actually removed it.
And that's where their safe harbour evaporated. Upon receiving notice a file is infinging, they know that *file* is illegal, and must now remove all the links to it, not just the one that was reported. Mega is in a possition to know all the links, where as the copyright holder is not. They thought they had a gaping loophole. Well, the DOJ is about to teach them how wrong they are.