megaupload shut down by federals

[RmJ]

Personally they should have been working on anti piracy long before 2010. More like 1994.

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[Death.RunningVerminator]

NOW HOW AM I GOING TO WATCH THE SECOND SEASON TO GAME OF THRONES?!?!?!?!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMNIT! DAMN IT ALL!

[r3vange]

NOW HOW AM I GOING TO WATCH THE SECOND SEASON TO GAME OF THRONES?!?!?!?!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMNIT! DAMN IT ALL!

[color=#FFFFFF]lrn22milrdie

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[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.

[Osilon]

The FBI got NZ Police to arrest the employees of Megaupload, not only because it was a site full of pirated content, but they set up the system specifically for said pirated content.
The 'report' button deleted links to files without actually removing them from megaupload servers, allowing others to find them anyway.
The employees had several internal emails stating that they shared pirated content between them, and downloaded it from megaupload servers- which put them in the wrong too. They admitted that the top 100 files was falsified, and the lack of a search bar was all set up to hide what people were uploading.
All in all, Megaupload was trying to present themselves legally while being almost as bad as TPB.

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A million dollars isn't cool. You know what is cool? A basilisk.

[RmJ]

Just like US players cannot online gamble on any site.

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[Champ]

Bandwidth limitations, and some of the crew have already lost about 1 gb worth of original files... Great.

Sue the US government for damage to property, grievance, loss of productivity.

Despite the fact that you have every legal reason to, thanks to the law system... yeah.

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[Zelot]

You know what they say:Hope I didn't go too far with the analogy. Or rather... I hope I did.

Wow, really? You are comparing genocide to not being able to get free video games and movies?

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[Jeremy Hunter]

Wait, nevermind.

Im tired and not paying attention...

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May you ever walk in the Light, Shizune.

[McNeo]

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Accompanies the Secret Project "The Planetary Datalinks"