Matsuda Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Three months before federal authorities shuttered Megaupload and indicted its top seven executives, the file-sharing site’s founder, Kim Dotcom, urged PayPal not to do business with rival sites because of their “criminal activity,” according to a 200-page document Virginia federal prosecutors unveiled today.If true, the revelation, one of countless the authorities noted in their filing, adds a touch of irony to a long-stalled criminal prosecution of what U.S. authorities have said is “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.”The October 2011 e-mail from Dotcom to PayPal, the text of which was released today, came as Megaupload terminated a rewards program that provided monetary incentives to some of its 66 million users to upload content.Our legal team in the US is currently preparing to sue some of our competitors and expose their criminal activity. We like to give you a heads up and advice [sic] you not to work with sites that are known to pay uploaders for pirated content. They are damaging the image and the existence of the file hosting industry (see whats happening with the Protect IP act). Look at Fileserve.com, Videobb.com, Filesonic.com, Wupload.com, Uploadstation.com.These sites pay everyone (no matter if the files are pirated or not) and have NO repeat infringer policy. And they are using PAYPAL to pay infringers. It’s not the first time Dotcom, who is in New Zealand fighting extradition charges to the United States, has undermined his rivals.Eighteen months before Megaupload’s operators were indicted in January 2012, the company complied with a secret U.S. search warrant targeting five of its users, who were running their own file-sharing service using Megaupload’s infrastructure, according to interviews and court documents.The June 24, 2010 warrant to search the Megaupload servers in Virginia (.pdf) was part of a U.S. criminal investigation into NinjaVideo, which was piggy-backing on Megaupload’s “Megavideo” streaming service.Though the feds had already begun quietly investigating Megaupload months before, in this case the government treated Megaupload as NinjaVideo’s internet service provider, serving Megaupload with the warrant and asking them to keep it quiet.Megaupload kept the warrant a secret and turned over information on the alleged NinjaVideo operators, as well as database information on the 39 pirated movies detailed in the warrant. The NinjaVideo probe led to the indictment of the five top NinjaVideo administrators, including founder Hana Beshara, on charges similar to those now faced by Dotcom and other Megaupload operators.In today’s filing, the government blasted Dotcom’s e-mail to PayPal:In direct contrast to DOTCOM’s statements in his e-mail, for over six years as part of the “Uploader Rewards” program, the Mega Conspiracy paid users who had uploaded “pirated” content, and as demonstrated in the sections entitled Willful Failure to Remove Copyright-Infringing Files and Misrepresentations to Copyright Owners, the Mega Conspiracy failed to terminate repeat infringers.Megaupload says it’s innocent of the federal criminal copyright charges, was acting as an internet service provider and is immune to its customers’ activities under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The government claims Megaupload does not enjoy the so-called DMCA “safe harbor” protection because it accuses Megaupload of failing to remove content at the request of rightsholders, an accusation and others that Megaupload disputes.The government, in today’s filing, counters:“The preliminary analysis of the database for Megavideo.com further reflects approximately 34.9 billion video streams, or views, of all files. Of these, at least approximately 15 billion streams, or roughly 43%, are of unique video files that had received at least one copyright take-down request.”An extradition hearing for Dotcom is tentatively set for next summer. Dotcom is free in New Zealand, awaiting the hearing and challenging the charges against him and six of his colleagues.The government’s indictment said the site facilitated copyright infringement of movies “often before their theatrical release, music, television programs, electronic books, and business and entertainment software on a massive scale.” The government said Megaupload’s “estimated harm” to copyright holders was “well in excess of $500 million.”In addition to the indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia, the Justice Department seized 18 domains connected to Megaupload. The agency said it executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries, seizing $50 million in assets.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 being a pirate 300 hundred years ago was a cut throat operation...and apparently it is today too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kn_andre Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Stabbing people in the Back Goes Further down Thousands of years ... Julius Caesar .... Rings a Bell ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Gelatin Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 No honor among thieves, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Stabbing people in the Back Goes Further down Thousands of years ... Julius Caesar .... Rings a Bell ????he got more than just a stab in the back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastershake Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 honestly i hate the new mega and dont use it and really dont know to many who do, i only ever used megaupload because for certain things there was no one else who had the files. otherwise i was never really a fan. and it seems now more of the truth of dotcom comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 The U.S. Department of Justice has released a new 191-page filing in which Megaupload is portrayed as a massive piracy hub. The Government is using data obtained from Megaupload’s seized databases to back up and expand several of the allegations against Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants. Among other things, the evidence suggests that “repeat infringers” drove a lot of traffic to Mega’s sites. The document further shows that roughly 43% of all files streamed on Megavideo received a takedown notice. The Department of Justice recently requested a secret order to help copyright holders by releasing sealed evidence from Megaupload’s servers. Despite protests from Megaupload, the U.S. has now made this information public.The evidence offers new details obtained from Megaupload’s databases to back up claims that were made in the original indictment. According to the United States the new evidence makes it even more clear that Megaupload was mostly a piracy hub, and that Kim Dotcom and his colleagues were well aware of that.In large part the new evidence deals with how Megaupload and Megavideo responded to DMCA notices. The Government accuses Megaupload of misleading copyright holders, as they only disabled URLs to infringing files, and not the files themselves. In addition, the new evidence shows that “repeat infringers” were allowed to continue uploading copyrighted material.For example, the Megavideo database revealed that there were 33 active user accounts that had more than 10,000 URL links disabled through DMCA notices. The decision not to terminate these users was due to the millions of views these repeat infringers were driving, the Government says.“In total, links created and distributed by these repeat infringer accounts attracted more than 475 million views on Megavideo.com. Had the Mega Conspiracy terminated the accounts of these repeat infringers, for which they had actual knowledge, the Mega Sites would have lost these millions of views,” the Government writes.According to the new information the infringing users were responsible for uploading the files that generated the majority of all views on Megaupload.In total there were 93,878 users that had at least one of their links disabled through a takedown notice. The links of these infringing users were accessed more than 27.2 billion times, which is roughly 77% of Megavideo’s total views.In addition, the Government claims that 43% of all video files that were viewed on Megavideo had received at least one takedown notice.The Government further states that Megaupload was not primarily a cyberlocker, as most users couldn’t store files permanently. Only premium subscribers could store files permanently, and free and unregistered users would lose access to files that weren’t downloaded regularly.“One of the databases shows that on or about January 19, 2012, the Mega Sites had approximately 66.6 million total registered users. Of these, approximately 800,000, or roughly 1.2%, were premium subscribers. Therefore, approximately 98.8% of users did not have significant capabilities to store private content long-term,” the Government writes.Most users were indeed not interested in storing files, as information from Megaupload’s databases shows that the vast majority of Megaupload’s users never uploaded a single file.“In addition, of the 66.6 million total registered users, at most, only 5.86 million registered users, or less than 9%, had ever uploaded a file to either Megaupload.com or Megavideo.com. Therefore, the vast majority of users accessed the Mega Sites to view and download content.”The Government then goes on to detail several of the “repeat infringer” accounts, and how the Megaupload team interacted with these users. The evidence also includes various email and Skype conversations between Dotcom and his team where there are seemingly aware of the infringing use of Megaupload.The Government had requested to release this information so copyright holders could use it to their advantage in possible lawsuits. Whether the evidence released thus far will be good enough to make a case against the Megaupload team remains to be seen.Source:http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-releases-more-evidence-of-megauploads-mass-infringing-use-131221/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kn_andre Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 I got a Feeling about how all these is gonna End .. But Lets just wait and see how it all Plays out - As if we Don't .. Thanks for sharing the Post .. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kn_andre Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 (edited) Stabbing people in the Back Goes Further down Thousands of years ... Julius Caesar .... Rings a Bell ????he got more than just a stab in the back What i was pointing out was that MegaUpload was the One who was Stabbing Other people in the Back by Ratting them out .. LoL ... Its quite Ironic, just like the Old Italian Adage - When you think you are Screwing other people Over, You Really are the One who is going to Get Screwed at Last .. Edited December 23, 2013 by kn_andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kn_andre Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 No honor among thieves, eh?None at all, at least Amongst this young Ones... Once they get Cornered, they will even sell their Mother to save their Neck .. It was the Older " Mobs " ( According to Gangster Movies ) who Knew the Real Meaning of a Code of Silence ... LoL ... But these Youngs ones of our Days will Rat out Anybody to Cut a " Deal " with the Feds when they are Caught...P.S. Note that i said all these with a Tongue in my Cheek !!! Mega LoL .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Orus Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Threads merged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Stabbing people in the Back Goes Further down Thousands of years ... Julius Caesar .... Rings a Bell ????i just read nemos fish lips...he said et tu andre :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kn_andre Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Stabbing people in the Back Goes Further down Thousands of years ... Julius Caesar .... Rings a Bell ????i just read nemos fish lips...he said et tu andre :lol:Ouchhhhhh.... :P But, am sure you know am not one who could Stab Someone in the Back ... Its just not in my Character .. And by the way, I Rocked the Heck out of Nemo's World ... Ask him - am sure he will tell you it was an Experience of a Lifetime !!! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Stabbing people in the Back Goes Further down Thousands of years ... Julius Caesar .... Rings a Bell ????i just read nemos fish lips...he said et tu andre :lol:Ouchhhhhh.... :P But, am sure you know am not one who could Stab Someone in the Back ... Its just not in my Character .. And by the way, I Rocked the Heck out of Nemo's World ... Ask him - am sure he will tell you it was an Experience of a Lifetime !!! :PI am not one to judge...as i have never seen what nemo "allegedly" saw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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