Don't know if you guys know this but Megaupload has been shut down.
oh crap. i used it yesterday
am i right in thinking this can only be done with cooperation from the countries involved, in this case new zealand? i mean, the pirate bay is still up
oh here’s a clickable link: feds shut down megaupload :(((
The formula to determine “lost revenue” is hilarious. It assumes that if the film/game/song in question had not been pirated then everyone who downloaded it would have heard of it, bought it(not rented it), new (not used) and at the maximum market value. It also assumes that nobody who downloaded it also purchased it or paid for a ticket to see it in theaters. Ever.
and haven’t studies repeatedly shown that people who download the most music and films buy more media than anyone else?
Wasn’t The Dark Knight the most pirated film of its year?
also megaupload sued universal last month so this kinda reeks of payback. and it’s ceo is none other than alicia keyes’ husband, multi-million selling hip hop producer swizz beats
Sorry but defending guys who got their Rolls Royce’s confiscated is not priority number one when I wake up in the morning.
anonymous is out -of -control over this
meanwhile rapidshare says it is unconcerned by the latest developments
and megaupload is trying to recover it’s servers and get back online
here’s an interesting piece on megaupload founder kim dotcom, as he calls himself. what a creep
megadownload :O)
Thanks for the updates Ruby.
Since one can buy films for a pittance on DVD and get albums by the song on Amazon for around $1 a piece legally, I fail to understand why people are so self-righteous about stealing.
You all know who owns the copyrights, and you know damn well the download sites dont pay royalties, so why is it you think you can just “take it”?
I’d love to hear some answers/justifications.
So that is why!!!! F*ck that congress Bill….. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!
@Claus Harding
Let me guess—you’re in the US?
As long as Mediafire remains untouched for the present, I’m good.
Because…I’ve…heard that site is really useful and resourceful…
@claus Since one can buy films for a pittance on DVD
The attacks began as Anonymous’ Sabu called for people to boycot paid media in all forms and supporting torrent and file sharing sites.
‘boycott paid media’
That is soooo ironic …..hahahaha
Dimitris
Since one can buy films for a pittance on DVD and get albums by the song on Amazon for around $1 a piece legally, I fail to understand why people are so self-righteous about stealing.
You all know who owns the copyrights, and you know damn well the download sites dont pay royalties, so why is it you think you can just “take it”?
Wanna know something? YOU buy them for me if ithey’re such a “pittance” for you. So if I want to buy albums by the song and want to buy at least 10 albums, will I be able to afford them or will a fucking capitalist once again steal from me AS USUAL?
And if we are to talk of cheap DVDs on Amazon, excluding stocks et all, we’re left with the decision to buy at least 3 Eclipse packages in the STILL excruciating price of a 90-100 euro as a whole, which is still a fucking travesty.
DOWN WITH THE FUCKING WORLD ECONOMIES, KILL THE PROFITEERS, EQUAL WEALTH DISTRIBUTION!
SOPA destroyed the internet,thanks a lot USA
Nobody (nobody serious at least) decried SOPA using the argument that piracy should be legitimized. It was decried because it was so vague and all-encompassing. Had SOPA been passed then Mubi.com, for example, could have been sued and/or legally forced to shut down if even one of its members posted a link to the wrong youtube video.
Megaupload is no different from any other online storage/file transfer website. The bulk of its use has nothing to do with piracy.
sopa didn’t pass. ^ also the case against megaupload appears to be built on allegations that it’s owners actively encouraged illegal activity and, once again, holds a host site responsible for policing everything it’s users upload, a position that’s long been pushed by the industry and repeatedly denied by the courts.
so we shall see.
@Claus Harding
Yeah, it is partly a moral issue but there is no ‘pirate morality’.
The real issue is that of the hive-mind destroying the source.
The kids are peeing into the well…..
Yeah, glad I scored all of those out of print Cronenberg/Shore soundtracks off there last week.
@Claus Harding
Your reasoning is good while it’s all about marketable things, but plenty of art plainly is not. So it won’t be protected by SOPA , just shut off from people around the world. We are forced to go mainstream or extremely and expensively elitist.
i’d better graduate univ before they prohibit xerox for its proliferation of copied, thus pirated books. do you happen to know if making photos in front of acropolis also falls in piracy category? after all a picture means stealing the image of sth and showing it to other people means its illegal distribution..
filesonic and fileserve have disabled file-sharing in the wake of the megaupload case. still, anyone who has been on the internet any length of time has seen this before (napster, kazaa, e-mule, limewire) and in each case they were replaced by something better. the RIAA, MPAA, etc. simply do not have the resources to track down even a small fraction of those who consume pirated media, much less to prosecute a small fraction of those people. megaupload was far too brazen; mediafire says this won’t happen to them.
also, kim dotcom’s house:
so obviously a very lucrative business :/ i guess he never expected they would cut him out of his safe room lol
How does he make money? do you pay to illegally download stuff?
people used megaupload to download films?
Nothing is better than Napster.
also, Ruby, there are already much better alternatives to Megaupload and there have been for many years now. Private torrent trackers outclass any sort of legal method of distribution of music and films
johnsonisjohnson
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-feds-megauploadcom-file-sharing-website.html
An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart online piracy.