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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by dialup_sounds on Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:20AM (#41255703)
MegaUpload was primarily funded by ads displayed on download pages, not the small number of people paying for storage.
Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by loa_in_ on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:08AM (#41256262)
Can you provide some source for the claim about the volume of sales MU had?
Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by dialup_sounds on Thursday August 15, 2024 @01:15PM (#41258261)
The original indictment put it at $25mm from ads and $150mm from subs, so my original statement is wrong.

But, I misspoke--the point I intended to make is that MU was making far more from download users than upload users. I made it sound like subs weren't a part of that, but they were. It's a question of what they were actually paying for.

Technically the subscriptions were paying for storage, but the indictment also cites MUs on database as showing only 5 million out of 60+ million registered users ever uploaded anything.

I mean, is it really a file sharing service if the vast majority of your paying customers don't share any files?

Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by throwaway48540 on Thursday August 15, 2024 @04:21PM (#41259962)
Sounds exactly like a file sharing service. My Google documents are also downloaded much more than uploaded, very often by people who don't upload anything at all.