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MEGA launch video taken down by Youtube (torrentfreak.com)
14 points by rikacomet on Jan 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



TL;DR: Business as usual. The GEMA are indeed a bunch of idiots.

So the video was automatically taken down because the GEMA flagged it for copyright infringement. Dotcom said "they will hear from our legal team". The Video was up again, probably roughly until the GEMA click the "refile" button.


The good thing about this, is that this will be in history books forever as proof of the evil that record companies have been.

They use wrongly and unethically a legal loophole to remove content they do not have any intellectual property right to remove.




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