Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition
I always wanted to know how is the damage done determined ?<p>&quot;U.S. authorities say Dotcom and three co-accused Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material.&quot;<p>Distributing copyrighted stuff is illegal, period. But the way those calculations are made worries me. Do they start from the presumption that if the movie wasn&#x27;t uploaded on megaupload, some person would have bought tickets to that film ? Is that the underlying premise?<p>I mean as a consumer I could either buy the movie, or watch an illegal upload of it. Isn&#x27;t that a false dichotomy?. I could just as well not watch it, if that illegal upload didn&#x27;t exist, and as such I would not have costed the company one cent.