Wasn’t aware of his history before Megaupload really.
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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agofrom odd eccentric file sharing site founder
no. he basically started with credit card fraud and “sueing people who fileshare”. Together with a lawer he basically invented the practice of “see which IPs share copyrighted data, request the user data from the ISP and send out C&D extiotion letters to the ISP customers”
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Could you provide more info? Yes he and every hosting provider did that because they were forced to by Hollywood. They and all other hosting providers/isps certainly don’t want to do it because it costs money to track the infringers and then they lose a customer.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
He and his lawyer started doing that in the late 90s. When the labels just started knowing what the heck this newfangled internet even is.
Source
Just one of the articles that goes into this assholes history
Translation
They mass-collected the connection data and started mass-sueing/extorting. Nobody else did on such a large scale at the time.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wow! I had no idea.