One
of the MegaUpload programmers indicted by the US has pleaded guilty and
got one year of jail time. Within a plea deal, he had to admit that he
downloaded copyright infringing content from Mega websites.
It’s been about 3 years of relative inaction in the case against the well-known Dotcom-run MegaUpload, but now there is some news about 7 of its employees. For example, several days ago the American authorities arrested one of the indicted MegaUpload defendants, a 36-year-old programmer, who came to the US from the Netherlands to take a plea deal and get imprisoned for one year and one day.
The employee had to acknowledge that he had been aware that MegaUpload stored copyright violating content, including movies and TV-shows, and had personally downloaded them. In addition, the employee continued to participate in the Mega Conspiracy.
This seems to be the first victory of the US law enforcement authorities in this case, and they are eager to bring the other defendants to the country as well, claiming that the Mega Conspiracy had engaged in massive infringement of copyrighted works for illegal profit.
As for Kim Dotcom, who has founded MegaUpload and later – Mega, he slammed the American legal system in a comment, but said that he could understand the decision of the coder, who had no other chance rather than to plead guilty after 3 years of DOJ abuse to be able to finally move on with his life. At the same time, the US authorities might have taken advantage of this particular employee, because he was an Estonian citizen living in a foreign country and therefore very vulnerable and running out of money.
The matter is that the facts mentioned in court – for example, a lack of cloud filtering of copyrighted files – were civil secondary copyright issues, but not criminal. As for MegaUpload, the company insisted that it had a robust take down system that provided direct delete access to copyright holders, thanks to which millions of links were removed from the service.
The sentencing of the programmer for criminal copyright violation surprised the industry observers, because there was only one example of possible copyright violation –watching a copy of a pirated TV-show – in the indictment. Perhaps, the authorities had other evidence, but it wasn’t announced to the public.
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It’s been about 3 years of relative inaction in the case against the well-known Dotcom-run MegaUpload, but now there is some news about 7 of its employees. For example, several days ago the American authorities arrested one of the indicted MegaUpload defendants, a 36-year-old programmer, who came to the US from the Netherlands to take a plea deal and get imprisoned for one year and one day.
The employee had to acknowledge that he had been aware that MegaUpload stored copyright violating content, including movies and TV-shows, and had personally downloaded them. In addition, the employee continued to participate in the Mega Conspiracy.
This seems to be the first victory of the US law enforcement authorities in this case, and they are eager to bring the other defendants to the country as well, claiming that the Mega Conspiracy had engaged in massive infringement of copyrighted works for illegal profit.
As for Kim Dotcom, who has founded MegaUpload and later – Mega, he slammed the American legal system in a comment, but said that he could understand the decision of the coder, who had no other chance rather than to plead guilty after 3 years of DOJ abuse to be able to finally move on with his life. At the same time, the US authorities might have taken advantage of this particular employee, because he was an Estonian citizen living in a foreign country and therefore very vulnerable and running out of money.
The matter is that the facts mentioned in court – for example, a lack of cloud filtering of copyrighted files – were civil secondary copyright issues, but not criminal. As for MegaUpload, the company insisted that it had a robust take down system that provided direct delete access to copyright holders, thanks to which millions of links were removed from the service.
The sentencing of the programmer for criminal copyright violation surprised the industry observers, because there was only one example of possible copyright violation –watching a copy of a pirated TV-show – in the indictment. Perhaps, the authorities had other evidence, but it wasn’t announced to the public.
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