Disney Enterprises, Inc. et al v. Hotfile Corp. et al
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
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MIAMI DIVISION
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DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.,
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM
Case No.
11-20427
CORPORATION, UNIVERSAL CITY
STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LLLP
COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES
INC., and WARNER BROS.
ENTERTAINMENT, INC.,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
HOTFILE CORP., ANTON TITOV,
and DOES 1-10,
Defendants.
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HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER
DEPOSITION OF DANIEL S. LEVY, PH.D.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
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REPORTED BY:
CYNTHIA MANNING, CSR No. 7645, CLR, CCRR
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Deposition of DANIEL S. LEVY, PH.D.,
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taken on behalf of Plaintiffs, at 235 Montgomery
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Street, 17th Floor, San Francisco, California,
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before Cynthia Manning, Certified Shorthand
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Reporter No. 7645, Certified LiveNote Reporter,
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California Certified Realtime Reporter.
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APPEARANCES:
FOR PLAINTIFFS:
JENNER & BLOCK
BY: DUANE POZZA, ESQ.
1099 New York Avenue, NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20001-4412
202.639.6000
dpozza@jenner.com
FOR DEFENDANTS:
FARELLA, BRAUN + MARTEL LLP
BY: ANDREW LEIBNITZ, ESQ.
235 Montgomery Street
17th Floor
San Francisco, California 94104
415.954.4400
aleibnitz@fbm.com
Also present:
Richard Waterman, Ph.D.
(Telephonically appeared except from 11:00
to 11:30 a.m. PST)
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the incidence of infringement occurring on
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Hotfile?
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I've provided comments on the protocol
that Dr. Waterman has provided.
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Have you designed such a protocol
yourself?
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No, I haven't been asked to design a
protocol to sample.
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So you've not been asked to design a
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protocol to attempt to measure the incidence of
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infringement or noninfringement on Hotfile?
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Not independent of the starting point
that Dr. Waterman has provided.
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Q.
But just to be clear -- this might be
implicit in your answer -- do you have an opinion
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on the level of infringement that is occurring on
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Hotfile?
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I haven't been asked to design a sample
to do that, and I haven't done so.
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Why not?
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Objection; calls for
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speculation, outside the scope of the report.
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Object to form.
THE WITNESS:
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do so.
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to do so?
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I haven't been asked to
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Is your question why I haven't been asked
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Do you know why you haven't been asked
to do so?
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I -- I don't know all the possible
reasons why I haven't been asked to do so.
I do know that the time from
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probably would take -- in most situations you
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would want to have more time than that to do
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that.
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So for January 2011, do you have an
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opinion as to what percentage of the downloads of
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files on Hotfile were infringing?
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Sorry, I just didn't hear the beginning
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Just taking the month of January 2011,
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do you have an opinion as to what percentage of
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the downloads of files on Hotfile were
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infringing?
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I haven't been asked to come up with
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that number.
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percent of files that were infringing.
I don't have an opinion as to the
I have -- I don't have an opinion as to
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the percent of files that were infringing, but I
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do believe it is not the figure that Dr. Waterman
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produced, because I don't think his analysis was
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based on a scientific sample.
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Do you think it's higher or lower than
his figure?
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I think that is something that's
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knowable, it's something that could be done, and
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I don't think anyone in this matter has yet
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provided the study that would provide a
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scientific basis for that.
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So you have no reason to conclude
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whether or not the actual level of infringement
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is higher or lower than the number in
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Dr. Waterman's report?
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Well, I think to -- at this point, you
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know, an opinion on that would be speculation.
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So there isn't information in the case that
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Dr. Waterman has collected that would allow
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someone to make that assessment.
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But the work could be done, you said?
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I think a valid sample could be done.
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But you haven't done the work?
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I haven't yet been asked to do that
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work, as I said in great part, because the time
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between the report that Dr. Waterman provided and
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the time of my report is relatively short for
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doing that.
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When were you retained in this case?
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Sometime in -- I believe sometime in
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The report Dr. Waterman provided
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doesn't have any downloads from 2010, so it would
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be speculation to provide an answer to that.
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Further analysis would have to be done and work
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would have to be done to come up with an answer
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for that.
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So you don't have an opinion as to
December 2010?
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I think, based on the information in
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the case, anyone who had -- Dr. Waterman or
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myself having an opinion on that would be
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speculation.
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Dr. Waterman clearly said that his
Do you have any reason to believe that
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the level of infringement in December of 2010 was
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higher or lower than the 90 percent figure that
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was provided in Dr. Waterman's report?
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Again, it would be speculation to
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suggest whether it was higher or lower.
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information in the sample could have been done to
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analyze that, but Dr. Waterman didn't do that
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sample.
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And you have not done it either?
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I have not done that analysis in the
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short time frame that I was provided since
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that it was the same as what is in Dr. Waterman's
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report.
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Do you have any reason to believe that
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it would likely fall outside of the margin of
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error of the infringement percentage that
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Dr. Waterman calculated for his sample in his
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report?
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I think it would produce a different
mean, and I think the confidence intervals would
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change, and I believe that Dr. Waterman's
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confidence intervals for downloads in general, as
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we're talking about now -- not big D downloads,
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as he analyzed in the big D download file, but
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small D, which I understand to be the more
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important issue in this case, along with other
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services -- that the confidence interval that he
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provided is not scientifically determined,
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because he didn't use a scientifically-drawn
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sample to determine that confidence interval for
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downloads in general.
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For all downloads in a month?
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For downloads as being discussed as the
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Taking into account all those
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categories of downloads that were not included --
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recorded in the Dailydownload file, do you
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believe that the level of infringement in January
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2011 was higher than 90 percent?
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I believe one can make hypotheses about
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that, and some factors would indicate that there
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would be a reason to think that there could be a
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change, a difference.
But in order to determine that, rather
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than just speculating on it, you have to do the
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study that provided the information needed to
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determine the rate of infringement for downloads
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in a given day or for a month or for any other
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time period or geography you wanted to analyze.
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Do you have any reason to believe that
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the number of infringing downloads in January
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2011, counting all downloads, is lower than 90
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percent?
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Well, again, I could develop hypotheses
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about that that could be tested.
Countries are
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different.
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excluded -- just picking one -- and I haven't
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gone through and developed an overall perspective
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on it.
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are -- from the -- from the free downloads
On average, the countries in the
But the countries that are excluded
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include some very large poorer countries that
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might have very different downloading behavior,
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might use downloads in a very different way, may
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be spending more time storing files, may use it
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as a storage location.
There are all kinds of hypotheses that
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would -- would suggest that it could be that it's
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But in order to determine that you'd
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have to study it, as I've said many times, you'd
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have to capture the data and look at the data
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that you want to understand the behavior of,
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rather than speculate on it.
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Do you believe that users in countries
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with a lower GDP are less likely to download
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infringing content?
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I -- it's possible that they're using
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Hotfile in a very different way and downloading
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different material due to language, due to
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economic conditions.
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possibilities.
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There are all kinds of
Have you studied any of those
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No.
I think they are things that could
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Well, one of the aspects of the way
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they are paid is by looking at what's recorded in
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the Dailydownload file, but that does not mean it
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records all the downloads that occur in a day.
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There are also other aspects of how
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affiliates are paid that have to do with other
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dimensions, such as conversion, file size, and
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other things.
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Right.
But the way that Hotfile determines how
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many downloads they're going to compensate the
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affiliate for is by looking at the download
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counts in the Dailydownload data as opposed to
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download counts in some other data?
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Yes.
The Dailydownload file, it's my
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understanding, contains the counts that are used
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in that fairly complicated algorithm that is in
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the file size and conversion and other things.
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Right.
And that's part of the incentives that
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level of infringement on Hotfile?
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I would -- again, as a --
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actually.
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which things changed and the pattern of
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infringement over time and see how they
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interacted.
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I mean you could look at the dates in
So you could analyze that in a
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But are you aware of any particular
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change in Hotfile's operations that you believe,
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based on your expertise, would have been likely
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to cause a change in the level of infringement on
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Hotfile prior to January 2011?
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I think as a -- you know, a hypothesis,
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I think behaviors changed, possibly, over time in
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Internet use.
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could be investigated.
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the evidence and information from Hotfile, the
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So I think that is something that
And, you know, you'd take
Do you know of any evidence that the
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percentage of files that were downloaded that
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were infringing was lower at any point in time
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prior to January 2011 than 90 percent?
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haven't done it.
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Q.
And a user potentially could provide
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two of those links to others to allow downloads
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of that file through two of the links but not the
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other three; correct?
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But that is possible; correct?
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Yeah, one of the infinite
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possibilities.
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And the three links that are not sent
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to know.
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I'd have to study it more
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So sitting here today, are you aware of
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what percentage of the zero download file records
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are multiple URLs for files that have been, in
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fact, distributed?
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I didn't -- I did not study that as a
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BY MR. POZZA:
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Dr. Levy, are you aware of any dramatic
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on Hotfile to increase?
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The change in use, uploads and
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downloads, is large enough that there can be
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changes in behavior either direction.
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enough room and growth there that lots of things
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could be happening.
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There's
And are you aware of whether those
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changes in growth would be likely to increase the
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level of infringement on Hotfile over time?
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You'd have to study that to know.
What
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of activity that there could be many different
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types of users who are now using Hotfile and
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using them in different ways.
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So you haven't studied that?
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I haven't -- I have not studied that at
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level of infringement on Hotfile in January of
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2010, would the January 2011 study be useful at
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all for estimating the amount of infringement in
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January 2010?
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add to it.
In a different type of study it might
Not in this study.
You mean in this study?
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information about what happened in 2010?
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Yes.
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In this study, it does not.
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If one had information about the level
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of infringement in January 2011 that one thought
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We were talking about storage of files
on Hotfile before the break, and we were talking
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about what I termed zero download files.
Do you recall that?
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Yes.
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And those are files for which there are
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no downloads recorded in the Uploaddownload
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table; is that correct?
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That's what we were talking about.
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Have you been asked to do a further
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analysis to determine what percentage of those
files are uploaded just for storage?
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I haven't been asked to do that.
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What further information would you need
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in order to determine what percentage of those
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files were uploaded just for storage?
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Well, I don't know that I could list
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all the information that you would need.
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some of the information that we were talking
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about before would be needed; more information
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about excluded downloads for the features that
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the Uploaddownload file didn't have.
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You might be able to perform some
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analysis based on the log files to determine --
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to gather some more information on that.
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could think about it and I think I could design a
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sample and then related model-based analysis or
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other analysis to analyze that.
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Would it be a separate analysis based
on analyzing a separate set of data?
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You know, I don't know.
I just
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best way to go about it would be.
And, you know,
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there may be multiple ways to go about it.
But I haven't been asked to develop
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Do you know what percentage of
Hotfile's premium users upload files at all?
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I did not analyze that for this report.
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Yeah, I didn't analyze that for this
I don't think it was needed to make the
You talk about a potential major use of
Hotfile being the storage function; right?
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that any witnesses in the foregoing proceedings,
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a verbatim record of the proceedings was made by
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me using machine shorthand which was thereafter
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transcribed under my direction; further, that the
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foregoing is an accurate transcription thereof.
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financially interested in the action, nor a
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