[pp.int.general] MegaUpload raided, shut down on request of US authorities

[Mozart]

What about the Sheffield Student who got extradited for links  
recently? PPUK & PPAU made comment on this.

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On 22/01/2012, at 8:42 AM, Christian Hufgard wrote:

> On 21.01.2012 22:28, Justus Römeth wrote:
>> They host torrents files that link to infringing copyright. Without  
>> being
>> an expert on US law, I am pretty sure that is illegal in the US,  
>> because
>> - even links to streaming sites are illegal as recent cases have  
>> shown
>
> Do you have any cases for links to files that have been declared  
> illegal?
>
>> - there is a lot of published letters by rightholders, some of them
>> American, demanding to take the torrents down, citing American law.
>
> Lawyers always write such latters. But its up to a judge to decide if
> law was broken.
>
>> - TPB is hosted in Sweden, and even under mounting pressure from  
>> Swedish
>> authority did not move out of Sweden.
>>
>> And seriously, the best argument you can come up with that you  
>> think TPB
>> would be legal were it hosted in the US? Seriously?
>
> I never said that TPB is illegal in sweden. The site is up and  
> running.
>
>> If it would be as easy as you say, why are not European countries,  
>> where
>> holocaust denial or glorifying the Third Reich (by using it's signs  
>> and
>> symbols in a non-historic contest) not going after German-languaged
>> neo-nazi sides hosted in the US?
>
> There must be a reason why google blocks links to those sites... On  
> the
> other hand it depends on the legal cooperations two countries are
> running. Copyright is handled by various international treaties.  
> Freedom
> of speech is not.
>
>
>> Sorry, I am calling bull on all you have said so far in this  
>> discussion.
>> -J
>
> Be my guest.
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