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A comment on Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by New Zealand. Parent comment

Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by kalleboo on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:17AM (#41257062)
> when a file was taken down, the host would usually make note of the hash of the file that was taken down and not allow that file to be uploaded and shared again

One of the complaints the US case had was that MegaUpload specifically did not do this. They de-duplicated uploads by hash internally, but when one download URL was DMCA'd, they only disabled that one URL and left other URLs with the same hash accessible.

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Re:Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light by... by dpedu on Thursday August 15, 2024 @05:06PM (#41260364)
How exactly are rights holders required to inform MegaUpload of content to remove? Every DMCA takedown request I've seen generally has a collection of links. I don't know the letter of the law of the actual process, but the ability of a rights holder to tell MegaUpload to take down all copies of X piece of media seems... Unfair. Not everybody has a hash based system, and even if they did, variance - such as raring, modification times, etc, would make everything mismatch. And, if that is actually the process, why do they bother to include the links at all?
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