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That study is interesting -- although I would like to point out that it is hosted by Torrentfreak -- hardly a neutral entity.

The study is not hosted on TorrentFreak, they just report about it. The study itself is hosted on Scribd. Also, it's a master thesis from BI Norwegian School of Management. I can't comment on how good the school is but Lowery doesn't even bother to say where his numbers come from. And while TorrentFreak is certainly not neutral on the issue, neither is Lowery. So let's ignore who says what and just focus on whether or not those arguments stand on their own merits.

However, if the numbers are not corrected for inflation, 4% growth in Norwegian kronor revenue would likely represent a contraction of the market because inflation is typically 2-3% per year.

Those numbers ARE corrected for inflation. The 4% increase in industry revenues is mentioned twice in the article and the first time it specifically says the number is corrected for inflation in the very same sentence. The raw numbers are 1.4 billion kronor in 1999 and 1.9 billion kronor in 2009.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the future of music, but am still very concerned about the sense of entitlement among listeners like Emily White. She has 11,000 songs and hasn't paid for the vast majority of them.

I'm not concerned in the slightest. Even if people completely stop paying for recorded music (which is even more unlikely than successfully crushing all freeloaders with iron fist), musicians will simply start using Kickstarter to get paid for making completely new music. Not to mention millions of amateurs who make music just for fun without expecting a dime in return.

Of more concern to me are the neurotoxins. http://www.scribd.com/doc/29764505/Artificial-Sweeteners

Ray Bradbury wrote "All summer in a day", the story of prejudice on Venus where an earthling's Venus-born schoolmates no longer believe in the sun. In a reflection of the rare beauty of a total solar eclipse, or the rarer phenomena of a Venus the sun only appears once every 7 years on Bradbury's Venus. Mr. Bradbury might have appreciated that his last day on earth coincided with a rare alignment between Earth, the Sun and Venus where...

No one in the class could remember a time when there wasn't rain.
“Ready?"
"Ready."
"Now?"
"Soon."
"Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?"
"Look, look; see for yourself!"
The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun.
It rained.
It had been raining for seven years; thousand upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.
"It's stopping, it's stopping!"
"Yes, yes!"

Fellow midwesterner Mark Twain famously wrote: "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"

Bradbury wasn't as sardonic as Twain. He preferred walking to driving, but this preference raised suspicions of cops in Waukegan Illinois. He turned his confrontations into Fahrenheit 451. As one of the most prolific writers in the world, he should be remembered for his love of language and life. Ray has inspired millions of writers and scientists with his prolific writing and love for language and life. And if you can read one of his first short stories, "The Lake" without shedding a tear over how short our time is on this planet... I don't know.

"In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating." -- Ray Bradbury (1920-2012 R.I.P.)

Canadians face similar limitations when it comes to sharing music that other nations do. For example, it is illegal to share music covered by copywrite. While I believe the receiver is not considered to be at fault, the sender is. Those using bittorrent are just as guilty in Canada as they are in the US.

First, it's copyright. Second no they don't. In the above linked court decision the judge equated placing copyrighted music in a publicly shared folder (specifically citing P2P) is the equivalent of a library placing a photocopier in a room full of copyrighted books. The library is not authorizing you to copy a book, if you do that's on you. However, if you do copy something digital from a P2P network (or any other source) you have no way of knowing if the source is a legal one or not so you cannot be held libel for it.

The studies suggest that piracy leads to more purchases of the same type of material (music, movies, etc) so it can be true that we both pirate and purchase at the same time.

You're jumping to conclusions. [snip]

No, there are actual studies like: http://www.scribd.com/doc/93891327/Hammond-File-Sharing-Leak

Thanks for pointing it out. I love how the post has been broken for two days now, but got modded Interesting anyway :)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/39111225/Pashtun-Sexuality

The problem lies not with carbohydrates as such, but rather with the sheer amount of refined carbohydrates in everything and our collective tendency to over-indulge in them. This gives our body a large surplus of energy and it deals with that in the only way it knows to: storing it as fat for later use in times when food is scarce. But food is never scarce in the western world, hence people just put on more and more fat.

Gary Taubes talks about this "obesity from prosperity" trope by citing the Pima indians.

Originally, the Pima were wealthy, and had plenty of food - so much that they were contracted to provide provisions to travelers through their lands. During this time, they were lithe and skinny.

A period of famine set in, as settlers upstream diverted water, and their lands dried up, and during this time, when they had to subsist on government rations of flour, sugar and coffee, they became thoroughly obese. By your hypothesis, under scarce food conditions, the Pima should have *lost* weight. Instead, they ballooned up, in a society that was arguably more physically active than anything modern man deals with, without any modern conveniences, like running water. The answer to this conundrum is to realize that the flour and sugar caused their fat cells to accumulate fat, *not* an abundance of food.

Another example Taubes brings up is obese women in Haiti with starving children. One could posit that these women are somehow hoarding calories for themselves (in order to get fat), and failing to give those calories to their children, but everything we know about maternal instincts goes against that - what woman would sneak that snickers bar for herself rather than feeding her child? Of course the insulin hypothesis addresses this as well - the woman is fat not because she is *over* nutritioned, but because she is *mal* nutritioned - she has nothing but cheap carbohydrates, and while she feeds herself and her child (probably feeding her child more than herself), her insulin resistance turns into fat, and her child simply starves.

The other good example Taubes gives is lipodistrophy, where the top of a woman is emaciated (not accumulating fat), but her bottom is significantly obese. Should we tell the top half to eat more, and the bottom half to eat less?

http://reflow.scribd.com/6eq7pqq3pcyshyf/images/image-16.jpg

http://www.scribd.com/dahorsey/d/94673089-Felix-Roque-Complaint

Evidence of the Google searches probably came from browser history on the seized laptop. According to item 58 of the complaint:

"On or about March 22, 2012, law enforcement personnel searched Joseph Roque's East Meadow residence for evidence of criminal activity targeting Victim 1 and the Recall Website. There, they seized the Joseph iPhone and a laptop computer, both of which evidenced Mayor Roque's and defendant Joseph Roque's acts against the Recall Website, Victim 1's Facebook Account, and the West New York News Account."

Seriously go read the indictment, it has money laundering, it has fraudulent take down procedures, it have fictitious users. Copyright infringement was just an underlying thing, they have him banged to rights which is why he's trying for the "excessive force" side defense.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment

Hahaha. Did you actually read this whole document? You really should.

It also has child pornography, terrorism propaganda, and many other neat things.

It also has things taken out of context, examples of Kim uploading his legally purchased songs to his private account on Megaupload (which is perfectly legal, but presented as if he was distributing the music by uploading 2 songs to his own account).

It has many many assumptions. Assumptions that Megaupload was a 'personal cyberlocker service', then 2 paragraphs later DoJ complains that Megaupload did not have a search function - therefore, they were up to something.

No, you really should read the document. It is not an indictment, it is a propaganda document.

Cal

http://gigaom.com/2012/05/11/louis-vuitton-asks-for-sopa-like-seizure-of-hundreds-of-websites/ links to
http://www.scribd.com/doc/93228219/Louis-Vuittion-Complaint
At the end of the page 20 some ~380 domains are listed?

Not saying you're wrong as I didn't read the link, but the USPS seems to be contradicting themselves on this one according to the letter I received from them. http://www.scribd.com/doc/93249053/USPS-LiOn-Battery-Letter

Rationalization at it finest. Damn it I'm ENTITLED to see the movie EVEN IF I can't afford it.

If you CAN do something, and If it doesn't hurt anyone to do it, what difference does it make whether or not you're entitled to do it? Yours isn't an argument against entitlement; it's an argument in favor of rent-seeking behavior and memetic control by force. "They didn't pay me, so they shouldn't be allowed access to our culture."

You are not entitled to a job, a car, food on the table, or a movie in the DVD/Torrent player.

I take it they didn't have Sesame Street where you grew up, 'cause the rest of us can spot that One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others in less than a second.

Firstly, they did something: they analyzed and shared it internally between employees. That alone is bad enough: it wouldn't be the first time an employee used people's private data for his personal profit.

Secondly, considering the US government track record with demands to people's private data is enough to make just collection and storage wrong. I mean, read it from Google's own testimony: the current law is outdated and does not offer the appropriate protection, and governmental agencies make thousands of requests per year under that law.

Well, the report confirms what was in the summary and title of this story.

How so? Read the 3rd bullet point on page 22 of the report.

"The record also shows that Google's supervision of the Wi-Fi data collection project was minimal. In October 2006, Engineer Doe shared the software code and a "design document" explaining his plans with other members of the Street View project. The design document identified "Privacy Considerations" and recommended review by counsel, but that never occurred. Indeed, it appears that no one at the Company carefully reviewed the substance of Engineer Doe's software code or the design document."

Um, no.

Here's the actual design that Apple is basing its case on: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-000181607-0001

Nothing about that is new, novel, or "specific".

Actually, that's quite specific. In order to infringe that design, you have to copy each and every element of the design. Corners have to be the same, the bezel has to be the same, lack of logo, etc., etc. You've clearly followed the Samsung-Apple fight, so you probably know that Apple listed dozens of potential design changes that Samsung could make and not infringe. Additionally, there are dozens of competitor's models by HP and others that don't infringe. That seems pretty highly specific.

And as for new and novel, I hadn't seen anything that looked exactly like that before the iPad came out. Do you know of any? Mind you, it has to look exactly like that, which is why the Kubrick 2001 tablets don't qualify, with their legal-pad aspect ratio, 10 channel buttons, and angled control panel.

... except that the "rounded corners" weren't patented. Rather, the entire and specific aesthetic design of a tablet computer was patented, in a very narrow design patent.

If this is your justification for "throwing out the entire USPTO," you're going to need to work a lot harder to convince anyone.

Um, no.

Here's the actual design that Apple is basing its case on: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61944044/Community-Design-000181607-0001

Nothing about that is new, novel, or "specific".

If they were worried about the little hidden magnetic strips for attaching covers or stuff like that you might have a point. They aren't, they're arguing about the rounded corners.

Full underacted text (other than the name of Engineer Doe, is available here.

It was clearly a tiny project that got little oversight, and less review. For the NYT to say it was "approved" is quite beyond the facts. Collecting wifi access point locations was approved. But Engineer Doe went off the reservation and did way more than that.

I downloaded it the other day. Its available on Scribd. Its telling that this NYT hack fails to give the source link, and the more you read it the clearer it becomes that nobody really knew what Engineer Doe was up to, and even he didn't find any convincing use for the data.

The streaming services are succumbing to exorbitant fee-per-play costs. For a price that is utterly arbitrary, and set by the Big Music cartel, you would think that the correct market reaction would be to lower this arbitrary cost so that it is profitable to maintain a Streaming Service. But I guess it is difficult to control streaming services if they are not on a short leash.
BTW, here's the letter from the group filing the complaint. Look at the paragraph on page 2, referring to royalty fees (Because of the unique royalty structure...)

Ah. I did find this:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/86948628/Trayvon-Martin-Police-Report

The officer on scene (Timothy Smith) indicates Zimmerman did have injuries and was treated for them by the SFD, but that was the extent of his involvement; this officer never questioned Zimmerman. That police report just isn't very meaty. It's also VERY interesting that the second officer on scene (Ricardo Ayala) doesn't mention Zimmerman's injuries; not even once. If I take the liberty to speculate on this, like everybody else seems to, it does seem as if they minor enough to go unnoticed, or at least unmentioned, by at least one of the officers arriving upon a homicide crime scene. Makes it seem like they'd be minor enough to not be apparent on film, too.

This does make one wonder, though... since the only weapons Zimmerman had to fear were Martin's hands, how serious did his personal injuries need to be to "prove" his "It was either him or me!" defense? Can I shoot someone for socking me in the mouth once and call it self-defense? Yeah, not so much. But, speculation time is over. I don't know the truth; none of really do.

This approach of meeting the student's needs is central to Paulo Freire's radical pedagogy. Trying to stuff people full of facts doesn't really work very well and is frustrating to both the teacher and the student. Create a space where people learn to do things because they have a curiosity or a need for them and have the tools, time, and space to work and they will teach themselves and each other.

I found this excerpt from a book on the topic interesting: http://www.scribd.com/doc/85646832/Education-and-Capitalism-Excerpt

Here's the full text, for anyone interested.

But don't steal. If it's not yours, hands OFF!

It's no one else's responsibility to make your poor business model work. Using language like "steal" where it's not appropriate just makes you look foolish.

It is libel and defamation. That is what the judgement against her was for. http://www.scribd.com/doc/74870113/Crystal-Cox-Opinion http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/12/crystal_cox_oregon_blogger_isn.php

Actually, it looks like the judge said "good luck" http://www.scribd.com/doc/87691774/Oracle-Google-fail-to-settle-court-order

I wonder if this device was at all inspired by this story?

Case Closed: Weapons Clearly Seen on Video of Reuters Reporters Killed in Iraq
You may want to read the documents from the official investigation which are seen at the bottom or the link above.

Nowhere more appropriate I can think of to post this again.

It depends on what ownership is being claimed on.

And it's very hard to think of anything this design patent shows that isn't "rectangular. round corners": USD627777S1

Then you're not looking very closely. The curved back, with an oval profile, is part of the design. The particular radius of rounding on the corners is part of the design. The placement of the home button is part of the design. The particular placement of the screen and bezel size is part of the design. There are many more elements to the design.

Just "rectangular. round corners"? That describes a bus, too. Does that patent look it claims the design of a bus? No. This is a lot narrower than you think it is.

Then maybe Apple's "rectangle with a screen" religious patent should be nullified: USD627777S1

As for the rectangular tablet thing, Apple like any claimant must describe in detail every single aspect in legalese. The rectangular tablet is one of the many details they had to spell out.

No, no they don't. Design patents are illustrative, not descriptive. And it's very hard to think of anything this design patent shows that isn't "rectangular. round corners": USD627777S1

The URL for that PDF didn't translate very well. Here is a direct link to the Microsoft SPLA Datasheet stating that Office can be licensed per processor. Any information on whether (and under what conditions) that is actually possible would be helpful: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23123212/Spla-Datasheet

Kinda old. It mentions the replacement project, Sentinel, due "sometime in 2009". What happened to it? Why, it's been delayed multiple times, had severe contractor problems, including a stop work order, and has as of last word, been delayed to next May. But it'll be done by then, you betcha.

`Based on information provided by the CW, and based on a transcript of Internet chats recorded by the FBI, I know that on or about August 4, 2011, the CW and an individual using the online nickname "palladium" exchanged private chat messages over the Internet. During the chat, the CW and palladium discussed the theft of Palladium's online by another individual. Palladium inquired what he could do to prove his identity to the CW and stated, "I can post some info I have from really old opps," meaning prior computer hacking activity.

Palladium continued, "I can explain something about the sun" and "I can give you some info I still have from the first fox LFI [hack]." Later in the chat, the CW asked if certain IP address (the "Palladium Address") was used by palladium, to which palladium responded that the "ip [address] looks like a wifi I connect from." The CW also asked whether palladium uses "Perfect Privacy," a virtual private network service located in Germany, to which palladium responded, "Yes I use that vpn."' scribid

"Currently looking for internships / summer work in the InfoSec industry". linkedit

>>Then some people flew some planes into some buildings and we all lost our collective shit.

No, it was happening well before that. 9/11 just gave them a reason to accellerate it, and to increase their budget for doing it.

Ever heard of Echelon? http://www.scribd.com/doc/49552147/ECHELON-Surveillance-Program (written in 1999/2000)

20 features? Care to point them out?

Google is your friend. Give him all your data to look after.

What "right" does a teacher have to keep their employment evauations secret? Please.

That's not to say there aren't plenty of ridiculous things they *do* have a "right" to:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2406704/How-To-Fire-An-Incompetent-Teacher

Yes Mr Ray Mai and I are located in Shenzhen. But trademark is not belong to Shenzhen company but Taiwan company. That the reason why we chose the meeting location in Taiwan.

The Shenzhen company definitely own the trademark for China, not the Taiwan holding company.
Apple acknowledges that there was a mistake and the trademark for China was not owned by the Taiwan holding company but believe the agreement was made with the full consent of the owner of the trademark and the owner of the trademark had deliberately set out to decieve them (corporate hypocracy considering Apple was using a shell company to decieve the owners of the trademark?). The owner claims Apple dealt with the holding company and he did not give permission to sell the trademark for China.
The Hong kong decision stops the Proview owner from selling the China rights till everything is settled -

This might violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The threshold phrase there is "exceeds authorized access". Explicitly bypassing a security measure is usually considered to satisfy that definition of criminal conduct.

Attempts to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse act have failed with regard to "Flash cookies", because the plaintiff was unable to show $5000 in damages, even across a large number of users. But since then,. Google has offered a deal where users give up their privacy for $25 in gift cards. Google has now put a price tag on privacy, which can be used as evidence against them in valuing future intrusions.

You're the one shouting. Shall I quote you again? Okay, here you go, your words:

"imitation is not a crime"

Yes, it is. If your product imitates a competitor to a certain legally defined point then it is illegal. Anyway, you're wrong about patents too. Apple does own design patents on the iPad and iPhone. Here's one for the iPad: http://www.scribd.com/matt_macari/d/66467658-USD627777S1. IIRC Apple's lawsuit in Germany was mostly based on imitation, not patents, while their suit in California is based on the patents.

I don't really understand you. Are you having trouble with the facts or can you just not admit you're wrong? Are you so strenuously objecting to my example of a Versacci bag? That's clearly not a counterfeit, it has a different name. But it is similar enough to the genuine article that it can easily be confused. My point with that example is that's the origin of laws regarding products that are too similar, even if there isn't an actual design patent involved.

Take a deep breath. Maybe a nice walk. You seem to be getting pretty excited about this.

Here you go.

On a related note, I wish there was a job where you just google things for people. That seems to be the only thing I'm good at now.

There's a slight difference between
a) a houseowner documenting a meteorite strike in his own property, and
b) a bunch of Israelis going to USA country to work for a front company, and documenting the 9/11 attacks while doing some peculiar things in the process.

I suppose you'd believe this document is an elaborate fake job too:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62392807/Dancing-Israelis-FBI-document-Section-1-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-1-944861

See page 30-37, 86-87 of the 141 page doc.

Or go ahead and believe what Popular Mechanics tells you. Move along now, nothing to see here.

Source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment HTH. HAND.

Just playing the devils advocate.

I reviewed an academic paper (which unfortunately the others on the PC didn't like, so it wasn't accepted) which examined the economic model of Megaupload, related services, third-party links to Megaupload, and the popular files, especially the "Uploader Rewards", and concluded that the company's business model really was about "Profit from Piracy".

I agree with you on this, but it is not yet illegal to "Profit from Piracy".

Combined with the email trail that the feds apparently got (eg, emails concerning scraping of Youtube for the creation of MegaVideo, emails about reward payments including clear descriptions of the types of uploads), and the RICO indictments etc are not a surprise. (the indictment)

Scraping of youtube is violation of the terms of service, but again is not criminal act. I would be happy to see Megaupload sued by Google. Calling the description, clear, is a stretch. It includes file type and the description provided by the uploader. I would be surprised if any of these can be considered the real description.

For example, if its true that their takedown is by URL, but they duplicate based on hash (so one can have multiple URLs for the same file), thats clearly attempting to game the system, as any legitimate takedown system would take down all separate URLs which point to the same file. (Paragraph 23 on the indictment).

Again not a requirement of DMCA. In fact, apart from Youtube, I dont think anybody looks for similar files are removes them. Say you have two files in your server containing BluRay keys, and receive a takedown for one of them, would you also volunteer to take down the other?

Especially if this is related to the creation of a "dummy lifetime premium user" to "to prevent the loss of source files due to expiration or abuse reports" (from a Megaupload email).

Also, at least according to the indictment, there really should be very few legitimate files lost in this: Anonymous uploads needed to be downloaded every 21 days or they were deleted, and even free named accounts required 90-day downloads, which is very different from Dropbox and other systems, where persistence, rather than popularity-of-download, is the goal.

You should read their terms again. They dont "need" to be deleted in 21 days. They simply guarantee to retain your file for 21 days without any downloads in the period. Depending on their resource availability they could retain files they believe would bring them revenue, for as long as they like and in any structure they like. And why shouldnt popularity-of-download be a goal?

I reviewed an academic paper (which unfortunately the others on the PC didn't like, so it wasn't accepted) which examined the economic model of Megaupload, related services, third-party links to Megaupload, and the popular files, especially the "Uploader Rewards", and concluded that the company's business model really was about "Profit from Piracy".

Combined with the email trail that the feds apparently got (eg, emails concerning scraping of Youtube for the creation of MegaVideo, emails about reward payments including clear descriptions of the types of uploads), and the RICO indictments etc are not a surprise. (the indictment)

For example, if its true that their takedown is by URL, but they duplicate based on hash (so one can have multiple URLs for the same file), thats clearly attempting to game the system, as any legitimate takedown system would take down all separate URLs which point to the same file. (Paragraph 23 on the indictment). Especially if this is related to the creation of a "dummy lifetime premium user" to "to prevent the loss of source files due to expiration or abuse reports" (from a Megaupload email).

Also, at least according to the indictment, there really should be very few legitimate files lost in this: Anonymous uploads needed to be downloaded every 21 days or they were deleted, and even free named accounts required 90-day downloads, which is very different from Dropbox and other systems, where persistence, rather than popularity-of-download, is the goal.

I'd like to say there is some hope for educating people like this person you know, but I'm afraid the PR machine is massive, and the rabbit hole goes much deeper than anyone suspects. Think for a minute about the SOPA/PIPA timing and the seizure of MegaUpload. Think it's coincidence? I don't. The only thing I think didn't work out right was the unexpected response to black-out day, which got the SOPA vote delayed. It would have been better marketing if the bill had passed and the arrests used to justify it.

If you read the indictment, you'll notice a lot of emails (unencrypted) with damning evidence, including a lot of "users" from places like Northern Virginia, Norfolk Virginia, Alexandria Virginia, etc. And Kim Dotcom was the obvious "ne'er do well" criminal kingpin type, with her castle-like mansion and staff of 12 to run the place. A very movie-like villain in the Scarface drug lord tradition. Except the Great Evil that the heroes at the Justice department were combating is IP Infringement - the great Internet-enabled scourge of our time that is OMG! costing jobs!

I don't believe for a minute that this is anything but a well-orchestrated PR stunt. The actors playing the MegaUpload executive are not going to prison - more likely they'll be given new identities and left in nice little homes in Paraguay to serve out their "sentence". The public is being completely duped with this thing. Sorry, but, please, I'm not buying it.

No. See the indictment. Very interesting document. The real evidence against these guys is not on Megaupload at all. It is in the emails they sent to each other and to outsiders.

The Feds' case hangs on the allegation that these guys formed a criminal conspiracy, i.e. that they knew that they were breaking laws and that they conspired to hide this because of the vast profitability of their operation. The evidence is all email records, bank statements, and Kim Dotcom's fleet of luxury cars.

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On or about February 5, 2007, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail to ORTMANN entitled âoereward paymentsâ. Attached to the e-mail was a text file listing thefollowing proposed reward amounts, the Megaupload.com username, and the contentthey uploaded:

100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] 10+ Full popular DVD rips (split files), a fewsmall porn movies, some software with keygenerators (warez)
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] 5845 files in his account, mainly Vietnamesecontent
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] Popular DVD rips
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] Some older DVD rips + unknown (Italianserries?) rar files
1500 USD [USERNAME DELETED] known paid user (vietnamese content)

On or about February 21, 2007, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail toORTMANN entitled âoe2 reward payment files.â Attached to the e-mail was a file containingMegaupload.com usersâ(TM) e-mail addresses and reward payments for that time period, whichranged from $100 to $500. For one user that was paid $300, VAN DER KOLK wrote, âoe30849files, mainly Mp3z, some copyrighted but most of them have a very small number of downloadsper file.â For other users, all of which were selected for reward payments of $100 by the MegaConspiracy, he wrote the following: âoeOur old famous number one on MU, still some illegal files but I think he deserves a paymentâ; âoeLoads of PDF files (looks like scanned magazines)â; âoelookslike vietnamese DVD ripsâ; âoeThis user was paid last time has mainly split RAR files, howevermore than 50% deleted through abuse reports.â