How much knowledge does a platform provider need to have of the files being traded on its system before the site owner can be considered culpable?
New Zealand Intellectual property and information and communication technologies lawyer Rick Shera declines to discuss the MegaUpload case specifically, as it is before the courts; but he says the existence of any number of similar "file-locker" sites, to which customers upload and from which others download files, raises an important general question about provider knowledge.
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