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And an allegedly shoddy takedown system was one of the key complaints from the content industries about MegaUpload v1.ДЄnd, of course, even if Mega is indeed legally protected, there is the issue as to whether the proposed new business could ever reach the scale of MegaUpload, especially if you buy the music and movie industryвЂ™s argument that the majority of the original Mega platformвЂ™s users were not interested in buying cloud storage of the digital firm, but in accessing unlicensed music and movie files stored in other usersвЂ™ lockers. So, as we say, something of a grey area until itвЂ™s tested in court.ДЄnd even if the encryption plan did enable Mega to wash its hands of files uploaded to its servers, if a user then posted a link to an unlicensed file complete with unlock code, then under the American system the rights owner would have grounds for issuing a takedown notice against that file, and the Mega company would be obliged to remove it. Though rights owners might argue that adding encryption into the mix simply to circumvent liability for the infringement you are enabling is not in the spirit of the law. Though MegaвЂ™s lawyers would probably counter that the encryption and subsequent upload to a server in the cloud of copyright material is not in itself infringement (in jurisdictions where a private copy right exists, which is most jurisdictions). So a judge might rule that MegaвЂ™s encryption system should do such a check for known copyright material before locking content up.

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In the big P2P file-sharing cases in the US courts, judges have generally ruled that if a tech company could theoretically install filters to limit the sharing of unlicensed copyright material (using meta data and/or fingerprinting technology to spot and block such files), then they should, however ineffective such filters might be. ItвЂ™s a grey area really, in all jurisdictions. Or so Dotcom and OrtmannвЂ™s lawyers reckon. So, if users were using the new Mega to distribute unlicensed music or movie files, liability would fall solely on said users. This will offer extra privacy protection to users uploading their own files, but, Ortmann reckons, will also protect the Mega business from liability for contributory copyright infringement, because there is no way the digital firm could know what is stored on its platform.

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Users will be given a unique key code for each file uploaded, and only someone with that code will ever be able to access the content that has been stored on the Mega server. Kim вЂDotcomвЂ™ Schmitz and his business partner Mathias Ortmann have been talking to Wired about their plans for a new file-transfer platform to replace MegaUpload, the company they ran before it was shut down by the US authorities in January amidst allegations of money laundering, racketeering and copyright infringement.Д¬alled simply Mega, the new file-transfer platform will include a new bit of technology that will automatically encrypt any file a user uploads to the system.

Digital Legal MegaUpload Timeline Top Stories New Mega file storage platform hopes to avoid copyright liability with encryption By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 19 October 2012