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In addition to protecting itself from your pirated content with its see-no-evil encryption, Kim Dotcom’s Mega service aims to stay on the law’s good side by playing nicely with copyright takedown requests and keeping that super important DMCA safe harbor status. So far so good, too; it’s responded to an early batch of requests with all due speed and efficiency.
In this first week that Mega has been in working order, the services has been juggling a whopping 500 uploads per second, according to Dotcom. And we all know a bunch of that is probably infringing. So far, at least one anti-piracy group has been able to see through the encryption haze and spot some stuff that shouldn’t be on there. LeakID, a content managing service, submitted five DMCA-like takedown requests to Mega last week, pertaining to copyright infringing episodes of Naruto that were floating around. And according to Numerama, all five came down in 48 hours.
That’s a good start if Mega wants to maintain a strained, but not openly hostile relationship with rightsholders and law enforcement, but there are a few caveats. First of all, five out of what must now be several billion files is a drop in the drop in the bucket. Second, because of that encryption, Mega ostensibly doesn’t/can’t verify what it’s really taking down. But while you’d expect that number of takedown requests to increase exponentially (and it might), smart use of encryption by users should make infringing files harder to find, and significantly throttle the flow of takedowns Mega has to perform.
All in all, the full force back-and-forth between Mega and rightsholders hasn’t gotten up to speed and humming quite yet, but it looks like Mega’s definitely making an effort so far. And with everyone watching, how could it afford not to? [Numerama via Torrentfreak]
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This was taken form the US site wasn’t it?
They weren’t DMCA requests, as MEGA has no presence in the US it does not except DMCA requests as valid.
Also Naruto is japanese and DMCA is american.
These were standard copyright violation notifications.
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Did you HAVE to make a full reply to yourself just to fix a small typo ?? It’s fineeeeeee people will get your point in the end
Just because Naruto comes from Japan doesn’t mean that someone or some company in the US doesn’t own distribution rights. In fact, Viz Media, LLC, based in San Francisco, appears to be the North American rightsholder for distribution there, so if anyone filed a DMCA take down, it could have been them.
I’m sure there’s some kind of DMCA -> international copyright conversion process that can occur.
Surely if it doesn’t know what the files are it has to take down everything complained about so if the companies complain about every single file…
We don’t know how it works yet, MEGA could ask the company for the encryption key for that file, if they don’t have it then how could they tell that the file infringes there copyright.
I was a bit confused by this as well, but you’re explanation makes sense. Given how the uploader would have to make the encryption key public in order to share the file, the company that filed the complaint probably got access to that key first.
It’s probably just a blind takedown based on some key info like URL, file size and/or hash.
It doesn’t make any sense for a company the size of Mega to individually check each file (500 uploads per second!) to determine whether or not naruto.avi is actually an episode of naruto or a dumbly named amateur porno or renamed .doc file.
Which kinda makes the encryption side of Mega utterly, completely pointless if they just roll over and do takedowns anyway.
Yep. Either someone has been very stupid, or there’s simply a new loophole for authorities to exploit in this new miracle service.
Dotcom himself is an idiot. Once he’s pissed off the requisite people again, he’ll get more visits from law enforcement.
Out of the loop here clearly, what even is Mega?
Rebirth of megaupload. You can look through past Gizmodo articles as it hasn’t been around long.
From what I have read Mega Upload was actually really good at taking down DMCA / copyright requests. Its just that is was so big that is gained the attention of the authorities. There are a not of new and existing file hosts full of pirated content, they are easily searchable and do not seem to be bothered about taking down copyrighted content. They shot themselves in the foot really. All they got for their trouble was a new encrypted MEGA and a bunch of foreign file hosts who care not for DMCA.