Well I've set the bar low to mean exonerate the guy to the extent that he's only as bad as the youtube crowd:
"On September 23,2005, YouTube co-founder
Chad Hurley emailed YouTube co-founders
Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, stating: "can we
remove the flagging link for 'copyrighted'
today? we are starting to see complaints for
this and basically if we don't remove them we
could be held lìable for being served a notice.
it's actually better if we don't have the lìnk
there at all because then the copyright holder
is responsible for serving us notice of the
material and not the users. anyways, it would
be good if we could remove this asap."
Their only mitigating behaviour is the moral dilemma they exhibit, I'm sure something similar could be pulled from Mega's email archives - again my point being the FBI/DOJ are better at making a case than Viacom.
"On September 23,2005, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley emailed YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, stating: "can we remove the flagging link for 'copyrighted' today? we are starting to see complaints for this and basically if we don't remove them we could be held lìable for being served a notice.
it's actually better if we don't have the lìnk there at all because then the copyright holder is responsible for serving us notice of the material and not the users. anyways, it would be good if we could remove this asap."
Their only mitigating behaviour is the moral dilemma they exhibit, I'm sure something similar could be pulled from Mega's email archives - again my point being the FBI/DOJ are better at making a case than Viacom.