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...PayPal is also named as a defendant on the basis that it offers financial services to Hotfile, Titov and Lemuria. Liberty demands that the court freezes defendants’ assets held by PayPal pending the outcome of the case...
In respect of safe harbor, Liberty Media claims that while Lemuria had a registered agent as required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) at the time of the infringements, Hotfile did not. As such it is “not entitled to the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions for the complained of infringements.”
Liberty describes Hotfile as a massive copyright infringer which encourages affiliates to upload copyright material in order to attract further visitors to its website from which both the company and affiliates profit.
With demands for a jury trial, Liberty Media claims Hotfile is guilty of inducing, contributory and vicarious infringement and wants statutory damages of $150,000 per infringed work.
Furthermore, Liberty requests that the court seizes Hotfile’s domain name pending the outcome of the case.
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http://torrentfreak.com/hotfile-1000...awsuit-110118/
I believe this one is a very strong case. Unlike previous loosy attempts to pick on rapidshare, there's a good chance of actually winning this time (especially no registered DMCA agent is a strong arguement).