The end result, however, is that the five sites on the list have been forced to go on the defensive hoping to avoid criminal prosecution with the federal government twisting everything they do to present it in the worst possible light.
But the thing is, many (if not most) of the other sites on this list do the same thing. RapidShare, of course, has also been found legal by multiple courts, because it follows the basic precepts of the DMCA and takes down infringing content when it discovers it. The company, which does offer the same basic services and gets a ton of traffic, has actually been one of the only cyberlockers who has hit back against Hollywood where it counts: with Washington DC lobbyists. I find it amusing, by the way, that they’ve dropped RapidShare from the list. Last week, Paramount’s VP of “Content Protection,” Alfred Perry, made a ridiculous and childish presentation in which he effectively put criminal targets on the backs of five companies, and suggested that they were all no different than Megaupload, and that the government was coming for them next: We noted right after the US government shut down Megaupload, that it was creating massive chilling effects on all sorts of online cloud businesses - leading some to already turn off useful services that consumers and businesses relied on.
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