NZ arrests in US-led copyright operation

[davereid]

Looks like Megaupload was just about to roll out something that might have done that:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/11131408...ts/HQJxDRiwAWq

Interesting link. The artists would have been well paid, but little room for the music companies to clip the ticket. Certainly adds to the pile up of information around this case.

A techy dweeb mate tells me there is some furious work going on to create an application that enables you to share your files via your email provider.

The idea is you upload what you want to share to your gmail or yahoo account. When someone wants a copy, they just tell the application. It logs onto your gmail account, and sends the file to the requestors gmail account, without sharing password data.

The idea is to demonstrate that if the holder of the server (ie mega-upload) is fully responsible for the content held on the server, that public email systems and cloud computing in general are all likely to be liable as well.

[oneofsix]

Looks like Megaupload was just about to roll out something that might have done that:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/11131408...ts/HQJxDRiwAWq

That can't be allowed! That might be allowing the artists to keep the copyright on their creations as it was originally intended Must stop. Must go in with FBI and guns blazing :AR15:

I thought FBI was USA domestic and CIA international. So isn't using the four FBI advisers in NZ to lead the AOS on their daring raid infringing on the CIA's property rights?

[mashman]

Looks like Megaupload was just about to roll out something that might have done that:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/11131408...ts/HQJxDRiwAWq

The Rain Man won't be happy if that's true.

[riffer]

Current music industry works like this:

[flyingcrocodile46]

Current music industry works like this:

The question as to whether it is illegal to copy songs and movies is up in the air again (at least in NZ) if this is anything to go by.

Small wonder that lawyers are associated with snakes and sharks when public prosecutors have morals no better than those of catholic priests.

http://rt.com/usa/news/dotcom-megaup...-evidence-235/

Dotcom’s case has been stirring controversy on both sides of the Pacific. His attorneys say the US illegally poached evidence from New Zealand, taking 18 copies of evidence despite an agreement with Kiwi prosecutors that it would remain in the country. That charge was deflected by prosecutors, who said that the clause only pertains to original data, and not copies of it, Radio New Zealand reported. Those prosecutors also said it would take another two and a half months to comb through the site’s archive before sufficient evidence is produced.

How the fuck are we expected to respect the law when lawyers have no shame in flouting them. Cock smokers.

BTW I have no opinion on dot com's guilt or innocence but the way in which the issue has been handled from the planning stage onward is fucking shameful.

[Swoop]

the clause only pertains to original data, and not copies of it

Well, that intimates that a recording of a song is perfectly able to be distributed around the internet as it is not the original. That would obviously be the one recorded in the studio. All others are copies from that.
The same would apply to movies, obviously.

Time to dismiss Dotcom's charges...

[scott411]

Well, that intimates that a recording of a song is perfectly able to be distributed around the internet as it is not the original. That would obviously be the one recorded in the studio. All others are copies from that.
The same would apply to movies, obviously.

Time to dismiss Dotcom's charges...

in the end, thats the US's call, we have a extradition treaty with them, no one complained about it when they caught and sent back that asian prick that killed his wife,

i am sure the pack of lawyers that dotcom employes will keep the case in the courts for years, the truth, and the victims (companies or artists or anyone else) have very little effect in the process, the process is what they will argue on,

i have no idea if he is guilty or not, and doubt that the laws they are using were really made for this sort of thing anyway,

Dotcom is a interesting guy for sure, he did not like the fact trying to buy off John Banks got him no help when he was in prison,

[flyingcrocodile46]

Well, that intimates that a recording of a song is perfectly able to be distributed around the internet as it is not the original. That would obviously be the one recorded in the studio. All others are copies from that.
The same would apply to movies, obviously.

Time to dismiss Dotcom's charges...

Exackery