Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy
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Peter Graham, in reply to
To differentiate between copies of the same show/film/software you would have to review every file individually, and compare it with all other files. And you would have to do this using humans, which would have huge cost implications and probably make the operation barely profitable.
YouTube does automatically compare audio and video against a database of works whose owners have complained to YouTube. See YouTube vs Fair Use and Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System. I think they do this to make their media partners happy and not because they are legally required to. YouTube makes good money off content licensed from big media.
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nzlemming, in reply to
YouTube does automatically compare audio and video against a database of works whose owners have complained to YouTube
Yes, that might do it. But many of MU's files would be zipped or rar files. Extracting the audio out would be difficult. MU could have done something similar, but didn't
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Meanwhile, all four Republican presidential candidates have come out against SOPA.
And Robert Bennett has withdrawn from the case, citing a conflict of interest.
Interesting times!
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The Bail hearing is still proceeding, according to Stuff
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Dylan Reeve, in reply to
Yes, that might do it. But many of MU’s files would be zipped or rar files. Extracting the audio out would be difficult. MU could have done something similar, but didn’t
And it's not required of them.
With YouTube they then also present some options to the content owners, which including monetising the content (ie. You upload a video with Pussycat Dolls track on it, their label can get ad revenue from your video).
That's not really the sort of business model that MU was operating with.
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Jock Anderson's report on the hearing so far, for NBR:
In a strong bail application, Mr Dotcom’s lawyer Paul Davidson QC has said that the US government, including the FBI, have completely misunderstood the reality of Mr Dotcom’s business.
Mr Davidson told the court the business did not involve the illegal downloading of copyright films, television series or music.
He says Mr Dotcom is not a flight risk, although he has access to helicopters and private jets and has passports in at least three nationalities under different names ...
Mr Davidson has revealed that the day before the police launched a dawn raid last week, a police officer called at the Chrisco mansion to discuss security matters with one of Mr Dotcom’s security advisers. He said the officer carried with him a concealed camera disguised as a pen that he used to take photographs around the property, presumably to identify any potential escape routes.
Two helicopter loads of armed offender squad members landed in the mansion courtyard and when Mr Dotcom was confronted by them banging on doors he became frightened and fled to the safe room where the police found him.
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Mike Graham, in reply to
He says Mr Dotcom is not a flight risk, although he has access to helicopters and private jets and has passports in at least three nationalities under different names ...
Tui billboard?
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
If I run a photocopy shop and let people photocopy stuff unsupervised should I be liable for any copyright infringement my customers are committing using my service?
For that matter, should the company that manfactures the laptop I’m writing this on be liable if I use it to infringe copyright like the dirty foreign criminal I am? Hope so – just for the sheer shadeunfreude-y goodness of watching two divisions of Sony go on a litigation jihad against another. :)
And while I hate sticking up for purverors of over-priced Christmas hampers, I wonder if Chrisco are getting a little tetchy about what this case is doing to their Google search results. :)
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bob daktari, in reply to
what you save on ya medias you can spend on our hampers
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3410,
If you're trying to share files you personally own on FileSonic you're now officially shit out of luck.
Also today,
FileSonic, FileServe, FilePost, MultiUpload, Uploaded.to, Sharebee are now all down or restricted to some extent. -
nzlemming, in reply to
just for the sheer shadeunfreude-y goodness of watching two divisions of Sony go on a litigation jihad against another. :)
We've been seeing that for a while with Sony building MP3 and video players that you have to break copyright to load up. I think it gets resolved around the board table rather than in court, especially if both divisions make money.
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Just out of interest... to what extent does a New Zealand court have to consider access to a 'fair' trial in the destination country when considering an extradition request (witness the UK court that denied extratition to Jordan (?) of an alleged islamic extremist on these grounds).
Given the large amount of money flowing from the big corporations to elected officials for influence (see the SOPA discussions above), and the present witch hunt of internet pirates that appears to be going on in the USA - to what extent would a 'fair' trial be guaranteed with elected and/or politically appointed judges in the middle of a media circus?
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Also today,
FileSonic, FileServe, FilePost, MultiUpload, Uploaded.to, Sharebee are now all down or restricted to some extent.It's on now. Talk about chilling effects.
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Peter Graham, in reply to
We’ve been seeing that for a while with Sony building MP3 and video players that you have to break copyright to load up. I think it gets resolved around the board table rather than in court, especially if both divisions make money.
Universal sued Sony in 1983 for making Betamax recorders because they're mostly used for copyright infringement.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Universal sued Sony in 1983 for making Betamax recorders because they're mostly used for copyright infringement.
And lost. How ironic. #can'tstopthesignal
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Gigaom has graphs 'n' numbers on the effect on internet traffic of the Mega sites closing down. Interesting!
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I literally had no idea that MegaUpload even had pirate content on it until a couple of weeks ago when someone showed me IceFilms... It's astonishing, a massive collection of links. Was possible to find all manner of films and episodes...
Worked very well - I'd happily have paid for the service (something like NetFlix I guess, but I wouldn't really know).
The content industry (of which I am a part) really needs to get ahead of this stuff. Unfortunately a massive number of complex rights management systems they've built up over years stand in the way and push people toward less-than-legal options...
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nzlemming, in reply to
The content industry (of which I am a part) really needs to get ahead of this stuff. Unfortunately a massive number of complex rights management systems they've built up over years stand in the way and push people toward less-than-legal options...
Yup. On this we totally agree ;-)
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For films and music it should be relatively easy (not sure why we don't have more options in that area in NZ). For Television it's a nightmare and I can't see a way it will ever be resolved, it's simply not possible for companies to provide direct, legal, immediate access to their TV content.
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Sacha, in reply to
For Television it's a nightmare and I can't see a way it will ever be resolved, it's simply not possible for companies to provide direct, legal, immediate access to their TV content.
they seem to manage it in the US market
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Pete Sime, in reply to
it’s simply not possible for companies to provide direct, legal, immediate access to their TV content.
The BBC do a good job with the iPlayer - I know they've geoblocked the tv content, but the radio is pretty good.
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Graeme Edgeler, in reply to
Just out of interest… to what extent does a New Zealand court have to consider access to a ‘fair’ trial in the destination country when considering an extradition request (witness the UK court that denied extratition to Jordan (?) of an alleged islamic extremist on these grounds).
It is certainly a matter to be considered.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
For films and music it should be relatively easy (not sure why we don’t have more options in that area in NZ).
Territorial licensing and distribution agreements are a pain -- but remain entirely logical with respect to physical product.
I'd have to say that for all it gets pilloried, the music industry is much further through the change than the screen industries. Indie labels especially are learning to harness the reach of the network.
Independent Music NZ signed a licensing agreement with Spotify several years ago, and a prominent person in that part of the industry told me once that an effective and reasonably monetised file-sharing system for music was "our dream". Even the majors are starting to get it -- at least as far as grasping the promotional power of Hype Machine et al. On the other hand, eMusic -- which was specially named as a service to be encouraged in RIANZ's Copyright Amendment Bill submission -- still doesn't have a NZ license, and iTunes still isn't network-priced.
For Television it’s a nightmare and I can’t see a way it will ever be resolved, it’s simply not possible for companies to provide direct, legal, immediate access to their TV content.
It would all have been easier if internet advertising worked better. YouTube has signed revenue-share agreements with several rights agencies and has begun to commission TV works, but there's just not enough revenue.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
The BBC do a good job with the iPlayer – I know they’ve geoblocked the tv content, but the radio is pretty good.
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