Allow him to continually ignore their requests to remove their work from his site?
Actually they gave the companies direct access to remove content from the site. I think it was only limited to 100,000 files per day. So the site was completely DMCA compliant and cooperated with them in every way. In fact, they were even working a deal with a few media companies to distribute their content legally. The companies were just butt-hurt because no matter how hard they tried the pirates were always one step ahead.
So they did everything they could to stop it. Including using their crony friends in the government take the site taken down illegally!
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Actually they gave the companies direct access to remove content from the site. I think it was only limited to 100,000 files per day. So the site was completely DMCA compliant and cooperated with them in every way. In fact, they were even working a deal with a few media companies to distribute their content legally. The companies were just butt-hurt because no matter how hard they tried the pirates were always one step ahead.
So they did everything they could to stop it. Including using their crony friends in the government take the site taken down illegally!