[x-pubpol] When Stealing Isn’t Stealing

[Joly MacFie]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Keith Davidson <keith at keith.co.nz> wrote:

>  Megaupload probably have useful defence from the safe harbour provisions
> of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, if this case ever gets as far as
> going to court in USA.
>
>

My understanding, after putting the question to Mitch Glazier of the RIAA
at the recent CSUSA SOPA event, is that, while doing business in the USA
gives sufficient nexus for takedown, being located outside means that one
has zero DMCA protection.

j

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