Exploring the limits of permission... Check out the details and their implications...
Source:
http://gizmodo.com/5839739/warner-br...raud-and-abuse
Quote:
When Warner and four other major motion picture studios contacted Hotfile about pirates using their service to copy their movies, Hotfile gave them a Special Rightsholder Account (SRA), a tool designed to flag and delete any content they owned. With the tool, Warner could easily search for their copyrighted material and destroy it. That's alright. It's their stuff.
But instead of just doing that, they went around living up to their douchebag legend and erased everything they wanted, which included material that was not owned by them. They deleted freeware and open source software left, right and center.
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