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stockastic:
But note that Kim Dotcom was charged with things like money laundering - not copyright violations. Whatever he was doing, he p!ssed off the wrong people, who were able to get big time law enforcement on his trail.

Uncle Pete:

--- Quote from: stockastic on January 23, 2019, 15:38 ---But note that Kim Dotcom was charged with things like money laundering - not copyright violations. Whatever he was doing, he p!ssed off the wrong people, who were able to get big time law enforcement on his trail.

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Actually, charges of conspiracy, racketeering and money laundering. Plus, Although the site knew it had infringing videos and songs on its servers, it wanted the contents to spread far and wide for maximum ad money. In order to reach their goals, they bribed users to do it for them. Also, The U.S. Department of Justice labeled it as one of the largest copyright crackdown in history.

And his answer when asked to stop allowing people to share copyrighted music, files, and video was: "We are a hosting company and all we do is sell bandwidth and storage. Not content. All of the content on our site is available for 'free download.'"

If Fiverr is going to say they aren't making money from theft, and aren't allowing copyright infringement and want to play the innocent game, that's fine, but it's not going to let them continue without someone wanting to file charges. The fact that they know that people are uploading stolen collections and don't do anything about that, lets say SS collections, is not going to be good if they come to the US.

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