Hotfile As Bad As Megaupload, MPAA Tells Court
Found on TorrentFreak on Thursday, 08 March 2012
“Hotfile’s business model is indistinguishable from that of the website Megaupload, which recently was indicted criminally for engaging in the very same conduct as Hotfile. Defendants even admit that they formed Hotfile ‘to compete with’ Megaupload.”
“Hotfile is responsible for billions of infringing downloads of copyrighted works, including plaintiffs’ valuable motion picture and television properties. As with other adjudicated pirate services that came before it, from Napster and Grokster to Isohunt and Limewire, Hotfile exists to profit from copyright infringement,” they write.
Megaupload's case isn't even in court, yet the MPAA already claims victory and wants more sites to be shut down. Sites which, like Megaupload, supposedly caused billions of losses, sums which make you wonder if people are spending money on anything else but music and movies. Plus, in a classical "pot and kettle" moment, let's not forget that Hollywood was founded to infringe patents and copyrights. Just ask the MPPC.