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> obviously thumbing his nose at US copyright law and he thought he was untouchable because of his location.

That and the fact that MU made its profits from tricking people into paying for the download privilege of illegal content and/or displaying ads on those pages.

If they did not charge or monetize that illegal content in some way, they would not have made the 100s of millions that they did.



Tricking people? They promised and delivered faster downloads.




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