U.S. Shuts Down Megaupload

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illuminati_guy said:
hulkshare n mediafire >>>

this sucks tho. internets is out of control
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Not really. Megaupload was the best - it did have some limitations on downloading but it more than made up for it with the very long lifetime of files on their servers. Link rot was extremely rare with megaupload

Very, very sad news.

There are still dozens of such sites out there, fortunately, but there turn may come soon too.
 
fillyacup

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i was reading some shit annon put on they twitter, about how the goverment planned the shutdown of mediashare or whatever the fuck to provoke annon into making them attack, thus making them look powerful to gain support for internet laws and shit.
 
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Nuttkase said:
I read this on another board, pretty interesting.



I researched it a little when I got home late last night and found what the guy wrote to be true. What goes around comes around, fuck all ya'll.
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Another thing that is forgotten is that copyright as a concept is a product of the industrial revolution and as many other products of it, something quite unnatural and unheard of prior to that. Before the 17th-18th century, people were writing books and composing music to get their point accross and to express themselves, they weren't doing it for money. To this day, scholarly writings are generated without a profit motivation and the authors do not get paid (which has not pevented a multibillion dollar industry from developing around academic publishing based on using free academic labor to generate content and then charging those same people for accessing it, but that's another very long story on its own) because the goal is for what you have written to be read and influence people's thinking, not to make a profit.

There is no reason why intellectual property should be protected, it does nobody any good other than a small group of people who profit enormously from it and it does a lot of harm. We wouldn't have idiotic canned entertainment that turns people into brainless morons if there was no copyright, and we wouldn't have commercial software full of bugs,. It is also not at all true that we would have no software at all as open source packagaes have demonstrated, and the whole software industry is based on the foundations laid by people who did it for free anyway.
 
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...egauploadcom/2012/01/19/gIQAJPIRBQ_story.html

A federal indictment accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue.
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Also, how the fuck did they arrived at a $500 million lost revenue number?

The vast majoirty of downloads of copyrigthed stuff are made because it is there to be downloaded, not because it is really needed. If you don't have the option to download something, most of time you simply go without it. There is no revenue lost from that.
 
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The operators of that site cannot be held responsible for how people abuse the site, the charges won't stick
 
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The surprising thing and what allowed them to go after Megaupload is that they had leased sevrers in Virginia. Which is quite stupid if they were aware of it, it is not as if the US has no history of trying to suppress copyright infiringements. But if the other sites don't have anything to do with the US, the government can't do anything to get them. Even then, it is not as if the filesharing services are openly based on copyright infringement - of course their business model is based on it and it is no coincidence that they started appearing right after the crackdown on direct P2P file exchange, but this is not what they are advertised as, it is just a place to store your files (and BTW, there probably thousands of people who need to access important personal files that they stored on megaupload who can't do that now - it must really suck for them ). But there are also very useful search engines such as filestube that really can't defend them in any such way (obviously there isn't much to be searched for that isn't copyrighted); expect those to be targetted at some point too..
 
BASEDVATO

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ThaG said:
I don't understand the "do not download a single song, legally or illegally" part. How are illegal downloads contributing to corporate profits?
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I think b/c the boycott will lead them to seek out a lot more lawsuits for that month maybe? to re-coop lost money. Just an idea.
 
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5-Dime NwK said:
If they shutdown Megaupload without SOPA/PIPA... why did they need SOPA/PIPA at all besides censorship?
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They shut down Megaupload with the existing legislation because Megaupload were stupid enough to have servers physically located in the US so they fell under US jurisdiction. If they wanted to shut down Rapidshare, Mediafire or some of the others, and those sites have absolutely nothing to do with the US, they can't do anything to get them with the current laws. SOPA/PIPA is something much stronger and more destructive.
 
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