Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music

bs0d3 writes "Not so long ago, a legal video was taken down by repetitive DMCA requests to YouTube. In response, Megaupload filed a lawsuit against Universal Music. This past week, Megaupload was raided by U.S. authorities and forced offline, which is costing Megaupload millions of dollars in damage. Today; while employees are in U.S. custody, Megaupload has mysteriously dropped their lawsuit against Universal Music."

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Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload

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It would seem very unusual for a nation to permit extradition of a person for acts which are not in that country illegal - even if they're unquestionably illegal in the country requestion extradition. Since violating the DMCA is the foundation of all the other acts in the indictment (if there is no other crime, financial transactions cannot be money laundering; there cannot be some conspiracy to not break the law) and NZ doesn't have the DMCA it seems to me they're unlikely to grant extradition. But I could be wrong.

Re:A link in the article

[Kjella]

Since in America we have trial by jury, if it goes to court it seems unlikely there will be able to find a jury willing to convict.

Ahhahahahhaaha... when you've got juries willing to convict people to $1.5-2 million in damages for sharing 24 files as a plain normal P2P user, then the Megaupload guys will be lucky to not see the death penalty.