Mega is going on the offensive over the crippling accusations against it

Just being accused of profiting from from inline piracy is enough to completely screw you over, as Mega knows quite well. Despite playing by all the rules, the cloud-storage services was accused of being a “cyberlocker” that makes tons of cash by allowing users to share stolen content, which prompted all of the big name payments services to blacklist Mega, thus crippling the company. Now Mega is going on the offensive with a report of its own.

In September 2014, NetNames published a report titled Behind The Cyberlocker Door: A Report How Shadowy Cyberlockers Use Credit Card Companies to Make Millions. It accused New Zealand-based cloud-storage site Mega of being a “cyberlocker” and profiting from “content theft”. Mega reacted angrily to the report, branding it defamatory and warning of further action. This morning Mega revealed it had commissioned international law firm Olswang to critique the NetNames report, an interesting move considering the firm’s pedigree. In 2014 Olswang worked with the UK government’s IP advisor to publish a set of anti-piracy recommendations. They were later endorsed by the MPAA. “Olswang was asked to analyse the evidence and data used by NetNames in order to establish whether there was any factual basis for the claims. Olswang is renowned for its deep experience in the technology, media and telecoms sector,” Mega says.