direi che la pistola fumante c'è tutta.
FBI — Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement.
The indictment states that the conspirators conducted their illegal operation using a business model expressly designed to promote uploading of the most popular copyrighted works for many millions of users to download. The indictment alleges that the site was structured to discourage the vast majority of its users from using Megaupload for long-term or personal storage by automatically deleting content that was not regularly downloaded.
The conspirators further allegedly offered a rewards program that would provide users with financial incentives to upload popular content and drive web traffic to the site, often through user-generated websites known as linking sites.
The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicized their links to users throughout the world.
In addition, by actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicize infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicize such content on the Megaupload site.
Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users.
As alleged in the indictment, the conspirators failed to terminate accounts of users with known copyright infringement, selectively complied with their obligations to remove copyrighted materials from their servers and deliberately misrepresented to copyright holders that they had removed infringing content.
Operazione molto efficace, basta guardare il buco nel traffico di http://www.internettrafficreport.com/.
(per quanti pochi siano gli ISP partecipanti e quindi la significatività non eccelsa (grazie GB))
Sarà efficace ? tecnicamente sono pronto a scommettere che gli utenti troveranno altre strade, ma molti potrebbero imparare dalla lezione nella misura in cui i responsabili verranno sanzionati
ricordo che…
… sequestrando i server, le forze dell'ordine hanno l'intero database degli utenti con tanto di indirizzi email, numeri di carte di credito e probabilmente log ed indirizzi IP. Ricordo che è reato mettere a disposizione materiale protetto da copyright per averne un profitto (che non vuol dire lucro, ovvero incassare quattrini; basta trarne una utilità).
(ovviamente anche account paypal e anche chi ci ha guadagnato diffondendo materiale piratato..)
osservo anche però che persone erano disposte a pagare…
5USD/mese per accedere ai video. E' un peccato che que soldi non siano andati all'industria per promuovere la creatività, ma che siano finiti a organizzazioni criminali… no ? #offertelegali
