Hollywood film studios sued Megaupload for $ 500 million

Yes, strangely it turns out a little: Megaupload is already gone (by the way, more than a thousand servers of the former file sharing service are still gathering dust at the public warehouse as material evidence), and there is a lawsuit against him and his administration (you can view or download from here ). In this case, the lawsuit is rather big, claims of right holders are estimated in millions of US dollars. The lawsuit was filed jointly by such well-known companies as Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Universal, Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros.

The lawsuit mentions three people from the administration of Megaupload. This is many times mentioned on Habré Kim Dotkom, Mathias Ortmann and Bram Van Der Kolk (Bram Der Derk). The essence of the lawsuit is the same: copyright holders accuse the creators of the file sharing service that they were making money by distributing unlicensed content. Yes, the administration deleted the url of some files upon request, but the files themselves remained, and were available to who downloaded the file.
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According to the right holders, Megaupload was created as a system that encouraged the download of unlicensed content (movies, TV shows, games, software), which was then downloaded by other users. Losses of rights holders, in their opinion, reached many millions of US dollars, including the so-called lost profits.

The lawsuit itself was prepared by the lawyers of the right holders for many months, and only now this lawsuit has been officially filed.

In turn, lawyers of Megaupload claim that it was a “white and fluffy” resource, where everyone could share files and also store their files for remote work, downloading data as needed. And all the requirements of the right holders were fulfilled upon request, according to the DMCA.

The new lawsuit has been accepted for consideration by the Federal District Court of the United States of Virginia County, and promises to be a precedent for many similar cases where various kinds of cloud data storage and file sharing services are involved.

Via torrentfreak