I think so (Off-Topic)

by kapowaz, Tuesday, August 05, 2014, 13:24 (3553 days ago) @ RC

MegaUpload got big and rich enough to be noticed and became worth suing.

Not exactly:

Acting upon a US Federal prosecutor's request, the New Zealand Police arrested Dotcom and three other Megaupload executives in a leased $30 million mansion at Coatesville near Auckland on Friday, 20 January 2012. This was pursuant to a request from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that the four be extradited for racketeering and money laundering.

There's a whole more to it than that, but it's highly political and was far more Pour encourager les autres than a legitimate case of prosecuting wrongdoing (not to say that it was illegitimate, but there's plenty of evidence that the way it went down was highly inappropriate).

The thing with this kind of service is that it's very, very difficult to police the stuff that people upload. Manually reviewing everything that gets uploaded could be thousands of hours’ work. You could invest millions in writing software to automatically detect copyrighted works (as Google has done with Content ID) but that's prohibitively expensive for most businesses, not to mention even when you write something like that, it has a tendency to false-positive on content.

There's no easy way of solving it, basically.