> everyone here knows what was going on at MegaUpload and anyone trying to deny is either twisting their minds into a preztel with the mental gymnastics they'd have to do to convince them otherwise or they're just outright lying. I said it.
The question remains however, how big a part of "what was going on at MegaUpload" involved copyright infringing data. The article implies that the old MegaUpload was indeed using data deduplication. The Feds confiscated 25 petabytes of data. It just doesn't add up if you consider all Blu-Ray releases in the movie industry to date (which at 10GB a piece would make up the vast majority of infringing data). The only conclusion (that makes any sense to me) is that the vast majority of those confiscated 25 petabytes (about 95% if I remember my previous back-of-the-envelope calculations correctly) must have been legit user-generated or individually produced data, such as the 4GB photos that are mentioned elsewhere in this thread, or who knows what it could be, raw video data, the only reliable way to share huge amounts of sensor readings from whatever instruments for scientific research maybe. I have no idea, but given they used deduplication, Hollywood just didn't produce that many films. 25 petabytes are huge.
Don't get me wrong, it still means they were infringing on an enormous scale, just that it wasn't quite entirely fair to just take and hold the whole 25 petabytes, they don't do that when Google infringes either.
The question remains however, how big a part of "what was going on at MegaUpload" involved copyright infringing data. The article implies that the old MegaUpload was indeed using data deduplication. The Feds confiscated 25 petabytes of data. It just doesn't add up if you consider all Blu-Ray releases in the movie industry to date (which at 10GB a piece would make up the vast majority of infringing data). The only conclusion (that makes any sense to me) is that the vast majority of those confiscated 25 petabytes (about 95% if I remember my previous back-of-the-envelope calculations correctly) must have been legit user-generated or individually produced data, such as the 4GB photos that are mentioned elsewhere in this thread, or who knows what it could be, raw video data, the only reliable way to share huge amounts of sensor readings from whatever instruments for scientific research maybe. I have no idea, but given they used deduplication, Hollywood just didn't produce that many films. 25 petabytes are huge.
Don't get me wrong, it still means they were infringing on an enormous scale, just that it wasn't quite entirely fair to just take and hold the whole 25 petabytes, they don't do that when Google infringes either.