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		hengli on March 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kim Dotcom’s first TV interview: ‘I’m no piracy ki... You don't need a guarantee, Megaupload is already passing the buck to the content provider who requested the takedown. Megaupload has a TOS to protect them in the event that they takedown a legitimate file. I estimate the chance of a legitimate file being deleted by this process at 1% or less.

vidarh on March 2, 2012 [–]

> I estimate the chance of a legitimate file being deleted by this process at 1% or less.

That's not very comforting for customer who might want to pay to store files there.

Especially not given the long stream of high profile cases of mistaken takedowns at sites like Youtube.

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