January 31, 2012
Buried in the January 5 indictment against MegaUpload, are e-mail communications between two managers, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, from April 2006.
"Well we only have 30 percent of their videos yet," Ortmann wrote. "In my opinion it's nice to have everything so we can decide and brainstorm later how we're going to benefit from it." In a subsequent e-mail conversation between Ortmann and van der Kolk, the latter man wrote: "Kim really wants to copy Youtube one to one."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-5...tried-smearing-rivals-u.s-says/?tag=mncol;txt
U.S. officials also say DotCom tried to smear his competitors... From the indictment:
"Our legal team in the US is currently preparing to sue some of our competitors and expose their criminal activity," DotCom wrote a PayPal representative in October 2011. "We like to give you a heads up and advise you not to work with sites that are known to pay uploaders for pirated content. They are damaging the image and the existence of the file hosting industry (see whats happening with the ProtectIP act). Look at Fileserve.com, Videobb.com, Filesonic.com, Wupload.com,Uploadstation.com. These sites pay everyone (no matter if the files are pirated or not) and have NO repeat infringer policy. And they are using PAYPAL to pay infringers."
Buried in the January 5 indictment against MegaUpload, are e-mail communications between two managers, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, from April 2006.
"Well we only have 30 percent of their videos yet," Ortmann wrote. "In my opinion it's nice to have everything so we can decide and brainstorm later how we're going to benefit from it." In a subsequent e-mail conversation between Ortmann and van der Kolk, the latter man wrote: "Kim really wants to copy Youtube one to one."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-5...tried-smearing-rivals-u.s-says/?tag=mncol;txt
U.S. officials also say DotCom tried to smear his competitors... From the indictment:
"Our legal team in the US is currently preparing to sue some of our competitors and expose their criminal activity," DotCom wrote a PayPal representative in October 2011. "We like to give you a heads up and advise you not to work with sites that are known to pay uploaders for pirated content. They are damaging the image and the existence of the file hosting industry (see whats happening with the ProtectIP act). Look at Fileserve.com, Videobb.com, Filesonic.com, Wupload.com,Uploadstation.com. These sites pay everyone (no matter if the files are pirated or not) and have NO repeat infringer policy. And they are using PAYPAL to pay infringers."
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