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by wpietri
3005 days ago
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I don't believe Section 230 is a sufficient defense here. If you have a site that is used for a lot of things but has the occasional bad actor, then Section 230 means that bad actor is the legal publisher of the content, not the site. Megaupload, though, was not that. They paid people who uploaded popular content, which was of course mostly other people's property. They they sold ads against it. If you look at the structure of the business and compare it with a a real cloud storage provider, it's pretty obvious they are no Dropbox: https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Virginia_Eastern_District_... The indictment has a clear claim that Section 230 doesn't apply, as well as a lot of detail. Dotcom was pretty clearly running a criminal conspiracy, and just thought he was clever enough to avoid getting arrested for it. Had he stayed small, he might have managed. |
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