megaupload shut down by federals

[Not Espi]

This is not SOPA. It is a law suit by <strike>Universal</strike> FBI ( dafuq? ) <strike>(I think)</strike>. They claim that Megaupload caused <strike>them</strike> a loss of 500 million USD by sharing copyright material on the servers, which is matter of fact, not true. Megaupload is not actually responsible for the content the users are uploading. AFAIK it always cooperated with organizations that informed them of copyright material uploaded by deleting it.

I of course realise, that 90% of megaupload bandwidth is piracy, but that does not give anyone the authority to shut the company down. They can check every single file on megaupload and inform megaupload of unauthorized content, but that is roughly everything they can do.

Why don't some publishers see the benefit of purchasable downloads is beyond me...


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so they got shutdown because the servers were in virginia? and i thought the US govt can just go and close foreign entrepreneurship at the whim of a magic wand ... at least i can sleep safer tonight.