MegaUpload has been shut down

Soupy said:
so does this mean news servers will go the same way? giganews, easynews etc etc ?
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Hopefully, yes.

Content creators need more power to get these sites and resources taken offline, permanently.

And people will have no one to blame but themselves, and their own mentality that they had for too long, that if they didn't want to buy something then that automatically gave them the right to take it for free.
 
Rhodri2311 said:
It depresses me that there are people like you out there if you're not a troll. Just because something can be used for illegal activity doesn't make it inherently wrong, or not useful. Otherwise cars would have been banned years ago. Target the people using it illegally rather than taking away a very useful tool.
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The service was founded on piracy, I doubt they could keep running if 99% of their users left and the 1% of legal users stayed. Paying people for bringing downloads to their site doesn't really have any legitimate purpose, it's only real use is to incentivise the upload of high demand copyrighted material. People don't tend to buy accounts to download free linux distros either.
 
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FoxEye said:
Hopefully, yes.

Content creators need more power to get these sites and resources taken offline, permanently.

And people will have no one to blame but themselves, and their own mentality that they had for too long, that if they didn't want to buy something then that automatically gave them the right to take it for free.
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oh give the power to those that want profits profits and more profits ;) we'll see how far the world will go..
 
FoxEye said:
Hopefully, yes.

Content creators need more power to get these sites and resources taken offline, permanently.

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Really? After all the lies spouted by the Media cartels, the lobbying for almost carte-Blanche laws that would break DNS and don't follow due process you'd still want to see them have more powers?

Are you a content creator? I am, and I'd rather see my work openly pirated than give Governments and Media cartels created stupid laws that threaten both the freedoms of the Internet and threatens small content producers like me just to prop up a dying business model.
 
grudas said:
oh give the power to those that want profits profits and more profits ;) we'll see how far the world will go..
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There is nothing inherently wrong with a desire to make a profit. In fact profit can be seen as driving our world forwards.

Making a profit isn't even the same as greed. If you are self-employed, you want to turn a profit. If you are employed, you want your employer to turn a profit, or you might be made redundant.

And just as you dislike greed (I will use this term instead of profit), there is reason to dislike piracy. For much the same reason. A greedy person wants more than his fair share, and a pirate wants more than he paid for.
 
grudas said:
oh give the power to those that want profits profits and more profits ;) we'll see how far the world will go..
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Brilliant!

Did you not notice the massive profits that the owners of these sites that are dropping like flies were making? The big difference being they had actually done nothing what so ever to earn them or support the creative industries that they were profitering on the back of.
 
Japan, China and Korea have said NO to the FBI, and that even if laws are passed in the USA, they will not have any value within the sovereignty of their countries.
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Same goes for every country. PIPA/SOPA doesn't expand past the US borders, but if other countries want to make similar laws they can.
 
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