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IIRC, Mega took down the offending URLs, of which there could be thousands pointing at the same data.



That's perfectly valid. Copyrighted data isn't illegal to distribute per se, only distributing it without a valid license. The same file can be illegally distributed by one Mega user and legally by another - it depends on who they are and what license they might have.




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