8 billion files (Score 1)

(repost - didn't log in!) Megaupload hosted over 8 billion unique files. Even if that figure were to include a copy of every book and magazine ever written globally (~130m), every film produced (250k), and every piece of music ever recorded (I can't get a figure for this, but 20m is surely vastly overestimating), that leaves 98% of their unique files being non-infringing. (Yes, there will be lots of non-identical duplicates, but one can be pretty sure that the majority of books/music/films will not feature at all). So we can look forward to the coming days, when Megaupload's 150million (iirc) registered users realise that they have lost their backups, and their photo collections, and businesses have lost critical data, and independent artists their distribution platform. And then people might wake up to how the USG has been bought-into to protect and police the profits of the falsely-named "creative" industry middlemen? We can pray ...