General Forum - Oh dear - Megaupload goes belly up! - Page 1

One down, Fileserve, Filesonic, Wupload, Bitshare, Rapidshare, Multiupload, Uploaded.to, Letitbit, Furk, Hotfile, DepositFiles, UploadKing, Oron, Netload and many others still to go...

And that's just the file hosts.

They will never learn.

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Many others? If SOPA gets passed, every single  filehosting website will be taken down on a whim, and that includes imagehosts

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I would be astonished if either SOPA or PIPA passed their respective houses, and even if one of them was successful I would put good money on the President vetoing it.

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I wouldn't.  Corporate America owns the legislature, and the President wouldn't dare cross them.  The only thing that might give them pause for thought is if the big players (like the MPAA) finally realise how much ill will they're storing up by pushing things like this.  As yet, most Americans would appear blissfully ignorant of what's being done in their name but sooner or later somebody will bite the silent majority in the ass as well and maybe what's worrying the online community might reach the mainstream.

On the other hand, the entertainments industry might use the same tactics the healthcare industry used to convince Joe Sixpack that the healthcare bill was Communism by the backdoor and that filesharing is nothing more than a Commie plot to snatch the bread from the lips of the starving Hollywood glitterati.

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The only thing that might give them pause for thought is if the big players (like the MPAA) finally realise how much ill will they're storing up by pushing things like this. It never, ever happened with the music industry, i can't see it happening with the film industry.

Thing is, as always there are two stories here, when you tell the one about how struggling artists are being done out of a decent living wage, everybody feels sympathy. The trouble is they represent such a small percentage of where the money goes, it's the studios and distributors that take the lions share, and try to screw as much money as possible out of the consumer at every turn.

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One down, Fileserve, Filesonic, Wupload, Bitshare, Rapidshare, Multiupload, Uploaded.to, Letitbit, Furk, Hotfile, DepositFiles, UploadKing, Oron, Netload and many others still to go...

And that's just the file hosts.

They will never learn.What I don't get is, I'm pretty sure Megaupload actually does do their best to remove infringing content.


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This item was edited on Friday, 20th January 2012, 02:44

Interesting news...
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/20/business/megaupload-shutdown/index.html
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U.S. authorities overreacted in shutting down the online file-sharing site Megaupload and seeking criminal charges against its executives, the company's American lawyer said Friday. "We believe that the allegations are without merit and Megaupload is going to vigorously defend against the case," attorney Ira Rothken said.


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It's laughable when it's reported that in addition to copyright infringements they also hand a hand in gun running, drug trafficking, prostitution, child slave labour, robbing kids piggy banks etc..etc only really added to bolster a law that was broken who the average joe public couldn't give a shat about...

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“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
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That Kim Dotcom geezer is quite a guy

http://gizmodo.com/5877987/the-best-worst-photos-of-megaupload-kim-dotcom

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It's laughable when it's reported that in addition to copyright infringements they also hand a hand in gun running, drug trafficking, prostitution, child slave labour, robbing kids piggy banks etc..etc only really added to bolster a law that was broken who the average joe public couldn't give a shat about...Have you never seen those FACT trailers at the beginning of DVDs you legitimately paid for?


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