Do you mean "would be paid"? But why would anyone pay the users? The uploaders were paid.
> The "theft" is propaganda.
No, it's juridical fact.
> In fact from the article itself it even says Mega had a notice and takedown system available to the rights holders.
Where does it say this? Anyway, this system was bullocks. It was just a poor lip service which they stalled and ignored the whole time.
"copyright holders, industry representatives, and legislators have long characterized copyright infringement as piracy or theft – language which some U.S. courts now regard as pejorative or otherwise contentious."
And also I'm unsure there is evedence it was ignored, it just seems like you are spewing more copyright propaganda. Might I dare to say they might be in fact lying?