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[xgkf]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

This is just stupid. Megaupload already removes download links all the time for containing copyrighted material or other terms of service violations. Butthurt industry is butthurt. Hell, if I read that Washington Post report right, several celebrities, including musicians (who would be somewhat hurt by piracy), actually endorse the website. It's ridiculous.

It's like charging the owners/workers of a gun shop with murder and closing it down just because it happened to provide the weapon that the actual criminal used to kill someone with.

 

[Blagtastic88]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

This was news before it was news, ya Slowpoke.

Yeah, I know.

Also in breaking news, Generalíssimo

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is still dead!

Spoiler

 

[SethK]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Derp, I didn't even see this thread. I went ahead and posted the Washington Post article link in the SOPA thread, hurr.
Anyway, apparently the feds are throwing around a sum of 500 million bucks as what Megaupload have cost OTHER legitimate businesses. I sincerely doubt that I am the only person who thinks this is ludicrously inflated.

Not to mention that these business' make billions more in profit.
I'd like to not believe this is in retaliation for yesterday's blackout, but deep down inside I know it is. Especially since the blackout actually caused some supporters of SOPA/PIPA to drop out.

 

[Blagtastic88]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Update: Department of Justice issues statement regarding raid.

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[Hentaispider]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Not to mention that these business' make billions more in profit.
I'd like to not believe this is in retaliation for yesterday's blackout, but deep down inside I know it is. Especially since the blackout actually caused some supporters of SOPA/PIPA to drop out.

I'm SURE DOJ could organize something like this on a day's notice.

 

[SethK]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

I'm SURE DOJ could organize something like this on a day's notice.

Hey, maybe not. But it seems far too coincidental that it happened the day after the blackout.
Edit: Not to mention the blackout was announced some time before the actual day.. So really, there was no "One days notice"

 

[xgkf]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Well, the indictment was apparently actually made by the court on January 5th, well before the blackout. They only shut thing down now. If the allegations in the DoJ report is accurate (and provable), they really are in deep shit, and its more akin to a gun shop owner knowingly providing a weapon to a killer under the table rather than my previous analogy.

That said, if anything, this should prove to lawmakers that SOPA and PIPA are completely unnecessary when it comes to shutting down piracy, and that they have well more than enough legal power to do what they need to with the laws already in place. It won't, but it should.

 

[xgkf]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Oh, I have no doubt that this was the industry flexing the entirety of its muscle, I'm just saying that this being in retaliation to the blackout protests is a bit farfetched. Especially since FAILING to be able to do anything with all of the apparent allegations would actually serve their argument for the need for SOPA/PIPA more than this large-scale success does.

 

[xgkf]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Yup. That's exactly what I was saying.

Not that they won't try with all their might to still get them (or versions of them) passed to increase said power, but this case shows that more power is certainly not necessary.

 

[SethK]

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New bill is being contemplated that would allow companies to file complaints, giving foreign sites an actual chance to speak up for themselves, instead of just being cut off.
Of course, Lamar is in opposition of the bill. Spewing garbage from his mouth like a fountain.

 

[xgkf]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

From what I read from that link, I like the so-called OPEN Act a hell of a lot more than SOPA/PIPA.

If anything is going to get passed, I hope it's OPEN and not SOPA/PIPA.

 

[SethK]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Also, apparently hackers are retaliating on the DoJ, RIAA and the white-house for the death of Megaupload.

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[Kusanagi]

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Also, apparently hackers are retaliating on the DoJ, RIAA and the white-house for the death of Megaupload.

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ME GUSTA

 

[Eye]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Anon has lost it's shit, they're going to go after pretty much any major government site.

 

[Nunu]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

well yeah, but i liked their experimental camepign in SEO to permanantly align supporters of SOPA with their decision.

 

[Blagtastic88]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Some folks got their hands on the full 72 page indictment.
If you want to read it go

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.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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If true, worth watching out for.

This seems more underhanded than usual from them... and deliberate attacks may not work out so well for them this time around.

 

[Incognito]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

Megaupload never worked for me anyway but still shutting it down is a volation of freedom of speech seeing that the damn site tries to remove all copyrighted content anyway.

 

[xgkf]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

That's the thing, though. According to the allegations in the DoJ report, they DON'T try to remove all of it. Or at least, they're selective about what they do and don't remove, and apparently keep copyrighted content from appearing on their "most popular downloads" listings intentionally.

Allegedly, of course.

 

[FLSexFiend]

Re: Megaupload Charged with Piracy, No One Surprised

this is what makes laws like this dangerous. Even if a site does its best to control copyright content from being uploaded, one single missed instance can make them liable to be destroyed. This is facism at its worst.

And, this bill is nothing less than a Trojan Horse. It's a way to force the ISP's to censor their content, and eventually put pressure on them to close down any objectionable sites, including those who are political opposition, or porn site.