one of the leading lawyers that is representing ten uh... dot com robert
bennett uh... has decided to no longer work on the case because of a conflict
of interest now this is really interesting because no details of being
disclosed at this point
uh... basically what they're saying is that robert bennett has another client
uh... and dot poses a conflict of interest with ken dot com uh... i think
the reason why he dropped out of the cases because it's an unpopular case and
he just doesn't want to get involved with it
yeah prior better has dealt with a lot of one popular cases as long as they
make it kind of money from it like for example
uh... he represented enron but in washington representing and run doesn't
cause any trouble
if you represent uh...
people that are not popular with people who have money then you've got some
trouble okay
and at my guess is that his lawyer of law firm a whole new of locals
is gonna make more money from the entertainment industry than they would
from a make-up upload and so they're like
ned to stick with that guy
may be sure that you adequately represented it is you sign on the
representatives your client
by all these legal ethics tears legal ethics where they'd more money from
other side dicted double
this is a really fascinating case because look we talked about this
yesterday but i don't think that we delved into just how calm
complex the case really gets right
so and for those of you were unaware of this case megaupload is a site that
allows users to upload large files
right hand to add a share files
and the whole reason why uh... megaupload was taking down the by the
government
and the whole reason why active dot com is being prosecuted a lot of along with
six of his colleagues is because the f_b_i_ believes
that he knowingly allowed unknowingly created this website allowed people to
upload high pirated material
aidid up to one hundred seventy five million dollars off of it
okay macbeth daisy that i think about what they are at the website was it was
a platform for people to share files
social at the f_b_i_ bill after the person who
lou is facilitating organizing creating the website
should they go out for the individuals
that's the whole question here and also
what is considered piracy right
so if i have alone
movie night at my house and a bunch of my friends come over and they watch a
movie for free
that despite dvd fortis back considered
file-sharing you're not doing it online you're doing a with your friends at your
house
so what it's it's a very very complicated case by neil did some sights
are set up
basically to do
to ally levy easley facilitate arrive sharing of movies that you should be
sharing
in fact file sonic and file sir richard gigantic by the way file serves ranked a
hundred thirty second website in the world while signing site in sixty six
have ways of sharing among
they're different users
that apparently they are now worried about and have voluntarily shut down
uh... what they call cyber lockers
and uh... and basically file sonic was encouraging whatever you upload i should
say
they've more people downloader will pay you more
does that encourage piracy to some degree
i think it does to be honest right and now we've got a lot of countless people
say hey you know what is on the one with piracy slides and i was explaining it's
like you're in your living room in your staying with your friends
yeah but you know what you're not in your living room
and i would take it to the jury
and i'm not saying i would rule one way or another i'm just saying it's not
clear cut and and i have some issues with the way filesize
uh... is doing now but when he comes said megaupload
i think the number one problem though the government
i did wrong was not only the written detail again
but they shut down as website but what do you have a trial there's no due
process there right
and so you're showing our website in it's a hundred seventy five million
dollar business
but he didn't have the trial's you should be the
it should be open until you decide if you decide that he is guilty animate one
of the website was piracy
okay then you could shut it down but in the shutdown preemptively by the time
the trials over the site is that
and you've killed it
one way or another that's not right i'd think that this entire situation
kind of gives us evidence that we don't really need so far
might because in this case look there outside the down sides of the way the
f_b_i_'s handling this they shouldn't have taken down the website yet they
should have gone with the trial first-rate but at least in this case
there's a actual due process with that without
you know the motion picture
uh... association and the government decided hey this website looks like it
might have links that have pirated material budget shutdown without due
process and and we won't have any trial whatsoever it's done when we move on
with their lives
so they're is gonna be trial that subset as we explain the down side is
with eighteen even wait for the trial is that the other side
so
it's very frustrating and at any space in the government say
well you one on sofa congradulations
but was shut down some website so we don't like anyway
anna will figure out later if if we should a set of that are not
after which it might be too late