Hello!
This week I watched “Kim Dotcom: Caught on the Web”, a documentary about the founder of MegaUpload – a file-sharing business that profited largely from users illegally downloading music, movies and TV shows. It follows the buildup to his extradition hearing, which was claimed to be the largest copyright case the world has ever seen.
The documentary depicts the development of Copyright law throughout the 2000s, and how regulators struggled to adapt to the emergence of the internet. It canvases a lot of the copyright issues we have dealt with in class and helped me visualize concepts, such as moral rights and the liability of ISPs for copyright infringement by its users.
I highly recommend taking a look. Unfortunately, MegaUpload was seized in 2012 following the US indictment accusing it of housing millions of copyrighted files…but it is available on Amazon Prime Video!
Here’s the link to the trailer if you want to take a look: https://youtu.be/M8iTRn8GUWc
Communications Law