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Originally Posted by gideongallery
actually it backup/recovery.
biggest mistake
hit mega upload after they were the victim of a bogus dmca take down
in the sme month they introduced a new music serice that pays artist 90%
and a new program that pays musicians when their songs are shared.
they obey the DMCA takedown notices process.
and it happened the exact week that sopa died.
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Yep a two and a half year long multi national investigation just happened to have been concocted in that very same week.
FFS give me a break.
Firstly, warrants were executed overnight in several countries, Australia and NZ being two of the many involved. Secondly if you read between the lines of the official statements being made then this is probably the first of many takedown operations that will transpire this year.
Anyone processing a hundred million dollars is going to attract the attention of all sorts of authorities.
Fact is Megaupload offered inducements, constantly failed to act against infringements and according to the police they have pretty good evidence that they even engaged in deliberate infringements themselves.
The raids will have happened because the investigation was at that stage, not because of what was going on politically. Global actions like this take lots of preparation and depend on many factors.