FILE-SHARING
“Tat’s enough information for us to remove the file,” he says, adding that the take-down request must come from, or on behalf of, the copyright owner rather than the third party.
As we go to press, Mega is in its fourth month of operation. So far, the team has not been contacted by any authorities with requests to shut down. “Hopefully they’ve been able to look at the website and accept that its compliance with the law is satisfactory,” Kumar says.
If the team is confident the site is not breaking any laws, would it consider operating the site from the US?
“We definitely do not want to have any cloud storage in the US,” he says. “Te US government is twisting and extending the law into new and novel areas where the law was never intended to be in a way we call ‘legal overreach’. Tat’s not a very friendly environment for any Internet provider to be in.”
What does he make of the recent Carnegie
Mellon University study that concludes legal movie sales and downloads in some regions increased by 10 percent since Megaupload shut down?
“I normally don’t comment on anything to do with Megaupload because I was never associated with it,” he says, adding that there have been different studies with different conclusions. “Tis particular study was funded by people who have a vested interest in the outcome,” he says.
“THE US
GOVERNMENT IS TWISTING AND
EXTENDING THE LAW INTO NEW AND NOVEL AREAS WHERE THE LAW WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE IN A WAY WE CALL ‘LEGAL OVERREACH’.”
Kumar envisions a future where Mega hosts a range of applications from its cloud storage platform, starting with an instant messaging service. But with half of his team awaiting extradition, and a prevailing appetite for free content, how does he rate Mega’s chances of survival?
“Mega will not only survive but do very well,” he says. “Te Mega team’s intention is to provide a valuable service that the people will appreciate and use, so it’s not only entirely legal, it’s something that is actually quite welcome.
“At some point I expect we’ll have more of an enterprise focus—perhaps an application which companies can put behind their own firewalls and run that themselves. I think there’s a pretty good roadmap ahead—all of them with that privacy angle.
“Sharing is good, but obviously it has to be within a legal framework,” Kumar says. “Te real issue is whether copyright law should be updated in an Internet age”.
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