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Old 03-02-2012, 09:59 AM  
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
Nothing too shocking. Obviously he wasn't going to go on there and admit that they ignored DMCA. I have a feeling this is going to be one of those legal cases that could take a while to get through the system, however, when it does it could be precedent setting and it could be used as case law for future cases.
AFAIK the argument is:

Megaupload started to de-dupe files in order to save space. DMCA would issue takedown request on 1 links (there could be many for a single file) Megaupload would remove only that link instead of all links to that file.

Not sure where this lands him legally.
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