Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

If you read the indictment you will notice the emails between company exec's are what the whole thing stems from.

On or about April 10, 2006, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail toORTMANN asking ?Do we have a server available to continue downloading of the Youtube?s vids? ? Kim just mentioned again that this has really priority.?

They purposely denied dmca's.

"It was further part of the Conspiracy that members of the Conspiracy deliberatelymisrepresented to copyright holders that they had removed copyright infringing content fromtheir servers, while, in fact, they only removed certain links to the content file, which could stillbe illegally downloaded through numerous redundant links. Redundant links were sometimescreated by members of the Conspiracy"

Directly stole and uploaded videos

"In approximately April 2006, members of the Mega Conspiracy copiedvideos directly from Youtube.com to make them available on Megavideo.com"

paid uploaders they were fully aware were in violation

On or about February 21, 2007, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail toORTMANN entitled ?2 reward payment files.? Attached to the e-mail was a file containingMegaupload.com users? e-mail addresses and reward payments for that time period, whichranged from $100 to $500. For one user that was paid $300, VAN DER KOLK wrote, ?30849files, mainly Mp3z, some copyrighted but most of them have a very small number of downloadsper file.? For other users, all of which were selected for reward payments of $100 by the MegaConspiracy, he wrote the following: ?Our old famous number one on MU, still some illegal files


33but I think he deserves a payment?; ?Loads of PDF files (looks like scanned magazines)?; ?lookslike vietnamese DVD rips?; ?This user was paid last time has mainly split RAR files, however more than 50% deleted through abuse reports.?


they will have a hard time fighting this one