MegaUploads antwort an RIAA zur Mastercard sperre

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  1. 25. Dezember 2010
    Exclusive: MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff

    Yesterday, we reported on the RIAAs efforts to get Mastercard to cut off payments to MegaUpload. Today, we have received an exclusive response from MegaUpload on this news.

    Blocking so-called “rogue websites” isn’t necessarily in the law books in the US yet, but things are heating up between the RIAA, MPAA and several websites they accuse of facilitating copyright infringement. Some of these sites, it turns out, are cyberlockers – websites that host large files for their users and allows for many to download those files as a side bonus of saving some companies bandwidth costs. Some note the recent strategy of pressuring payment methods to cut off funding from websites they accuse of duping consumers into paying for pirated content as a more recent change in strategy in the organizations strategy to fight piracy.

    At issue specifically is the effort by the RIAA to get Mastercard to block payments to MegaUpload.



    It’s quite a statement that sparked an even more interesting statement from MegaUpload, one of the sites explicitly mentioned among these “rogue websites”



    Ouch. Not quite the effect the RIAA or MPAA might have hoped with their recent actions.

    Lam continued to defend MegaUpload, “Megaupload is a legitimate business operating within the boundaries of the law. In five years of operation we have not been sued by a single content owner. If the RIAA or MPAA would have legal grounds they would have taken us to court by now. We suggest that they attack us within the legal system and stop labeling us until they have something to show.”

    It is true that the RIAA and MPAA have yet to try to litigate the company. It would indeed be hard with a copyright complaints system in place in that website where if a copyright holder sees their infringing material on MegaUpload, they can have the link taken down.



    Indeed, it’s hard to see anyone who would lose out in all of this other than Mastercard.

    One things for sure, things could get quite interesting in the weeks ahead between Mastercard, MegaUpload and the RIAA should these tensions keep rising.

    We would like to thank Bonnie Lam for taking the time to respond on this issue.

    Quelle: www.zeropaid.com

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    Dieser vorauseilende Gehorsam, wahnsinn! Bin ja gespannt, ob sie rechtliche Schritte einleiten werden und wie die Reaktionen der Firmen die ihre Backups bei MU hosten ausfallen.
     
  2. 26. Dezember 2010
    AW: Exclusive: MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff

    Aha, weswegen denn? Welchen Grund haben sie denn? Keinen, solange es ein Abuse System gibt und die Checksummen geblockt werden kann Megaupload auch nichts dagegen tun und das Hosting ist rechtlich einwandfrei.
    Wenn dann sollte Megaupload rechtliche Schritte gegen Mastercard einleiten.
     
  3. 27. Dezember 2010
    AW: Exclusive: MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff

    Den vorauseilenden Gehorsam zeigt Mastercard, ohne Not oder rechtliche Grundlage.
    Und wie in dem Interview von Mr. Lam (MU) angedeutet überlegen sie sich rechtliche Schritte dagegen.
     
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