The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched an effort to help lawful users of Megaupload retrieve their files.
Tag Archives: Megaupload
Ben Wright / Megaupload’s Innocent Users
January 25, 2012 – 7:00 am
Ben Wright makes the excellent point that disabling Megaupload should not result in the disappearance of non-infringing files that users have uploaded.
UMG Doubles Down
December 18, 2011 – 2:56 pm
In its response to Megaupload’s lawsuit, UMG makes the startling claim that it has authority to seek removal of YouTube videos in which it has no copyright interest: “The UMG-YouTube agreement grants UMG rights to effect the removal of user-posted videos through YouTube’s Content Management System (“CMS”), based on a number of contractually specified criteria […]
Megaupload Censored
December 10, 2011 – 5:41 pm
The folks at TorrentFreak report that Universal Music has issued DMCA takedown notices to remove from YouTube a video posted by Megaupload in which Universal has no copyright interest. Alas, misuse of takedown notices is all too common.