Well not to get into a whole seperate discussion; but from emails recovered by prosecutors it seems they knowingly violated the safe harbour provisions by claiming to copyright holders that they had no access to raw files, when in fact they did.
Actually, that context does have relevance. To what extent to we balance the rights of copyright holders against what's best for reusers. And how does that place us and the foundation legally?
Tom On 1 Jan 2014 11:33, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, What effective claim has been made against Kim Dotcom and, THAT is your argument. Thanks, GerardM
On 1 January 2014 12:21, ??? wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 01/01/2014 07:41, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, When you go the way of comparing to Kim Dotcom to make a point, you will have to recognise that the government has been shown to act illegally. Consequently your argument is without real merit. Thanks, GerardM
The first thing that is wrong with the above is that copyright holders
are
not the Government.
On 31 December 2013 20:45, ??? wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 31/12/2013 15:01, Yann Forget wrote:
2013/12/31 ??? wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk
Isn't that the attitude that got Kim Dotcom into trouble? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/us-unveils-the- case-against-kim-dotcom-revealing-e-mails-and-financial-data/
This is a typical trolling. Comparing Megaupload with Wikimedia
Commons?
Don't you have better (constructive) arguments?
I'm comparing your attitude that rather than fixing the known
copyright
issues upfront one should await complaints before addressing, to be similar to that exhibited by megaupload. An attitude that is essentially one of "We'll get away with it for as long as possible, until someone complains." Meanwhile falsely advertising that the content is free to use.
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