[btown]

All someone has to do is release a white-label, searchable aggregator for links and keys, with instructions on how to copy-paste the key to decrypt the file. No need to interact with the Mega API at all. The developer releases it with a collection of Creative Commons content, legally says "This should only be used for open-access content," and open-sources or sells the source code. Then these sites pop up all over the place with pirated links. Since the aggregator's original authors never intended it for piracy, they're blameless, and the operators who use the site take all the risk of takedowns.

Such an app would bring Mega back to its former infamy. A MegaDropbox is not needed. And no developer needs to take the fall.

Piracy isn't the answer to our arcane copyright laws, or to the industry's failure to embrace digital distribution, so I hope such a thing won't be made. But I'm pretty sure it will be.

[eurleif]

>Since the aggregator's original authors never intended it for piracy, they're blameless, and the operators who use the site take all the risk of takedowns.

Are you sure? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/coder-charged-for-g...