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Re:10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload by jffry on Sunday February 27, 2022 @09:37AM (#30488827)
> But a lot of piracy happens with publicly downloadable files, which MEGA can definitely decrypt and search for copyright violations

How would MEGA do this, without crawling the web looking for links + keys? Which is certainly something they'd have no interest in doing.

Naturally, I'm sure that third party "rights enforcement" companies might trawl for these links and look for infringing content and issue a takedown notice to MEGA, but there must be an ongoing arms race between people sharing links+keys and the bots crawling for them.

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Re:10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload by vmception on Sunday February 27, 2022 @12:10PM (#30490257)
> How would MEGA do this, without crawling the web looking for links + keys? Which is certainly something they'd have no interest in doing.

By doing that.

They receive reports and take links down.

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