Comments on: New MegaUpload Will Deflect Copyright Liability and Become Raid-Proof

By: Gofast

Gofast — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:36:00 +0000

Well smarty pants, just as soon as you complete you download & decryption, you too are guilty of piracy…

By: ManiVasagam M

ManiVasagam M — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:29:00 +0000

Me.ga will be back with powerfull :)

http://www.studentscrunch.com

By: O Mega Está Chegando! | Mundo dos Docs e Filmes

O Mega Está Chegando! | Mundo dos Docs e Filmes — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:27:50 +0000

[...] A Wired tem a reportagem completa, e vale a pena ler. Se o Mega realmente funcionar da maneira que Dotcom deseja, o Megaupload voltará maior, melhor e mais impossível de derrubar que nunca. [Wired via Torrent Freak] [...]

By: Zarathustras Id

Zarathustras Id — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:52:00 +0000

If you’re smart enough to ask those questions you’re smart enough to answer them. Stop asking stupid questions.

By: Megaupload se convertirá en Mega, a prueba de redadas y demandas | Dominios de Internet, Online Brand Protection, Online Security & Brand Monitoring

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:39:30 +0000

[...] por sus enfrentamientos con la Justicia en varios países europeos. Pero como bien indica TorrentFreak, se diferencia en que‘Mega’ ofrecerá cooperación a las discográficas y productoras, [...]

By: Podcast 54 – Not a lot happens on the corners | DJMcloud

Podcast 54 – Not a lot happens on the corners | DJMcloud — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:34:11 +0000

[...] The upcoming new “Mega” site. [...]

By: Davey

Davey — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:51:00 +0000

Kim really does have delusions of grandeur. He’s first got to win his Mega Upload case. Anyone wondered why nothing is moving in the courts. It’s because the case will be dragged on and on in order to incur costs for Mega which will disable his activities.

Do you really think the people this is aimed at hurting are going to lose sleep over this new Mega product? Seriously come on. Making content owners agree not to sue if they get access to a take-down tool. Is he for real?, sounds like an idea thought up by a 16 year old. The law will simply change to ensure that whatever Mega do in order to continue profiting from copyright work is illegal.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:28:00 +0000

The new Mega will NOT deflect copyright infringement from itself to its users. The new Mega can still be held liable for copyright infringement for its users.

Even if the service is encrypted, that won’t necessarily prevent Hollywood or the record labels from suing. According to Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman a federal appeals court ruled nine years ago that a service provider can’t avoid liability for users’ copyright infringement merely by encrypting files. In that case, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that shut down the peer-to-peer service Aimster. The company argued that it didn’t know whether users were infringing copyright with the service because the files were encrypted. But the federal appellate court ruled that Aimster’s encryption didn’t give the company a defense. “Willful blindness is knowledge, in copyright law (where indeed it may be enough that the defendant should have known of the direct infringement,” the judges wrote. “A service provider that would otherwise be a contributory infringer does not obtain immunity by using encryption to shield itself from actual knowledge of the unlawful purposes for which the service is being used.”

The new Mega with its encryption will now be an easy target to be sued for “facilitating copyright infringement”. If the prosecutor can show that Mega has encryption to allow users to cover copyright infringement and piracy then they will win and the new Mega will probably get shut down again.

By: Scary_Devil_Monastery

Scary_Devil_Monastery — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:51:00 +0000

Because you don’t even try to bruteforce the encryption if you have even half a clue. You lift the key directly from the system doing the encryption/decryption by using a suitable trojan.

That of course presents problems if it means you have to compromise at least one computer in each BT swarm in order to be able to crack even a single set of transmissions.

A variant of the stuxnet (or any other well written virus exploiting a difficult-to-patch vulnerability) could of course turn any infected computer into a DDoS-bot, running a variant of Jester’s old script against all other members of the swarm.

The collateral damage would be extreme but since when did that ever stop the pro-copyright crowd?

By: MEGA : El nuevo servicio en la nube de KIM DOTCOM | Eurosas IT

MEGA : El nuevo servicio en la nube de KIM DOTCOM | Eurosas IT — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:06:43 +0000