justAnotherNutzy

Hi Stephen..

Thanks for the AMA.

Your search engine retains the copyright on everything that your engine calculates.

This seems to be similar to a calculator wanting copyrights on the result (copyrighting 4 on 2+2) or google retaining copyright on my email.

What is the thought process behind this ?

Hi, thanks for protecting our 'electronic' freedoms. Now that I know that we can subscribe, I will pony up the $60... hope it helps.

On the Megaupload issue, could you please help me understand why it should not have been taken down ?

Megauploads seems like a deliberate creation for exchanging copyrighted digital material. Yes, I am sure a significant number of people using the site, used it for legitimate purposes, BUT, most of the paying members and most of the traffic from the site was in uploading/downloading copyrighted material. While I can understand that copyrighted material is expensive etc. etc., it is finally still a crime to distribute copyrighted material isnt it ?

Do we even know what the fraction of non-infringing users was in the total user base ? Does it matter (say if only 10 were non-infringing users) ? What makes downloading music that I have not paid for legal ?

Trying to find non-digital examples.. .

Assume X owns a building with 6 condos and manufactures/sells crack in two apartments. We also will assume that the other four apartments had innocents living in them. Would the govt. not be able to confiscate the building and ask the apartment lessors to vacate ?