Dotcom's New File-Sharing Offers 50GB Free Space With Privacy
The U.S. authorities are on the move to extradite the German- born Internet tycoon from New Zealand, presently free on bail. The prosecutors claim that Dotcom made ten millions of dollars whereas filmmakers and songwriters had lose to around $500 million in terms of copyright revenue.
The entrepreneur also raised an argument that he can’t be held responsible for copyright infringement committed by others and insisted that Megaupload conformed to the copyrights by removing links to pirated material when questioned.
“I can assure the Court that I have no intention and there is no risk of my reactivating the Megaupload.com website or establishing a similar Internet-based business during the period until the resolution of the extradition proceedings”, said Dotcom.
The prosecutors referred to a court document neither commenting on the new site, by citing several promises Dotcom made while seeking the bail, neither can he nor will he start a Megaupload style business until the current criminal case is resolved.
The complaint filed by The Motion Picture of America about alleged infringement by Megaupload was not impressed. “We are still reviewing how this new project will operate, but we do know that Kim Dotcom has built his career and his fortune on stealing creative works,” the MPAA said in a statement.
