Re:Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year
by BlueAndroid on Monday February 16, 2015 @08:19AM
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I wish people were more considered, less cavalier, when providing services. You obviously thought about it. That's important and some people appreciate it. I don't buy the "I just do X, what happens next is not my fault". It doesn't wash in commerce, it's equally invalid in ethics.
Re:Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year
by hellbanner on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:35AM
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When you buy lunch, whatever that seller does with your money is not your fault. Even if that is commit a violent crime.
The police never cared about any potential copyright infringement (which I'm fairly certain must have occurred as well simply because we could not possibly monitor all the uploads manually).
Eventually I clued in to a way to really close the door on the childporn if we could collaborate even more tightly but before this could get off the ground my main contact at the dutch police force died and his replacement did not show much interest (there was a huge flap with child porn made in daycare centers here at the time so I can see why he would have been too busy).
Absent the collaboration I shut the service down, but in principle I think file sharing services have many good aspects, they are just tools and can be used for good and bad alike.