Posts by Russell Brown
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Meanwhile, all four Republican presidential candidates have come out against SOPA.
And Robert Bennett has withdrawn from the case, citing a conflict of interest.
Interesting times!
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to John Armstrong,
Battles a couple of years ago. Converted instantly and have discovered a lot of good music as a result
They were amazing on Friday. Quite intense, but amazing.
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MediaFire's not shutting down sharing:
We welcome any former MegaUpload users who want to legitimately store, access, and share their data on our cloud storage service. We caution new users to read our Terms of Service carefully and understand that MediaFire takes violations of our Terms of Service very seriously.
MediaFire offers a free, secure, and unlimited cloud storage service for users to upload and share data with their customers, colleagues, friends, and family. MediaFire’s Professional and Business plans offer uploaders additional functionality like company branding tools, analytics tools, and multi-seat employee accounts.
MediaFire’s premium services are based on a user’s ability to upload data and pay to distribute it. This storage and sharing model is similar to Akamai, Amazon S3, YouSendIt, etc. MediaFire has no caps or restrictions for downloading data and each upload is limited to a maximum size of 200MB for non-premium users.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
Terrorist related content and child porn are presumably explicitly illegal. Copyright material on the other hand is not.
Which is where I thought Graeme’s “these are drugs” example upthread was a little bit off.
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Capture: Big Day Over and Out., in reply to JacksonP,
Looking at the 2008 lineup, with the exception on my part of Arcade Fire, nothing really grabbed me on the two main stages, as was the case on Friday. And yet the stadium was full.
Rage Against the Machine and Bjork were also on the main stages that year, although the Rage fans didn't have a lot of patience for Icelandic pixies.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Since it’s a bit difficult to test (ahem) the functionality now, was it possible to search for content if you didn’t have the URL? Say I’d like to download the new Tintin-movie and I make the assumption that it exists on MegaUpload, could I search for it? Or would I need to ask someone in a forum for a link to it?
I have it it right, no -- you couldn't search on Megaupload for the file you were after. You had to have the URL shared with you by an individual or by one of the third-party sites that index such shares. And you could Google those.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to nzlemming,
They will know, statistically, that there is content on their system that is infringing. They’re not required by the DMCA to do anything about it until advised.
I understand that. But I would submit that they have a more than merely statistical knowledge of the content they host. They know they have entire TV programs -- even series -- on their servers. They're proactive in that they operate systems that detect the content of owners who register with them, and offer the option of a takedown or claim-and-monetise.
Remember "always blow on the pie"? Screentime, the owner of Police Ten 7, was notified just as the meme took off, and the employee responsible just hit the "takedown" button as a matter of course. I called them and they were scrambling to get the clip back up. They now have their own one up, and I would think they're making a little revenue from that -- and from the various other instances and derivative works based on the original.
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If you're trying to share files you personally own on FileSonic you're now officially shit out of luck.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to nzlemming,
Also, I believe that their ‘safe harbour’ relies on them not knowing what was there until advised by content owners – if they were posting multiple links to a file,
This is what intrigues me. Does anyone really believe YouTube management has no idea it's hosting potentially infringing content until explicitly advised by the owners?
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NBR has had Jock Anderson down at what has clearly been a chaotic morning in court.