<i>not having had the offending servers...in the US</i><p>Not accurate.  Read the indictment at the link on this page.<p>- Bottom of page 11: <i>thirty-nine infringing copies of copyright motion pictures were present on their leased servers at Carpathia Hosting... in the Eastern District of Virginia</i><p>- Page 18:<i>The Mega Conspiracy leases approximately 25 petabytes of data storage from Carpathia to store content associated with The Mega Site.</i><p>- It also looks like they leased servers in the US from Cogent, Leaseweb.  They paid Carpathia $13M US to host Mega files in the US.<p>- They also used a US-based Paypal account to receive funds and pay the different hosts in the US.<p>- They made &quot;reward&quot; payments to US residents who provided copyrighted material.<p>Mega was <i>running</i> an illegal business in the US.