MegaUpload has been shut down

the real question is how long before 4chan get involved and all hell breaks loose, I would love to see there "rational" response to this.

they can't stop piracy its like a hydra, they cut off one off its heads and another 2 or more pop up in there place.
The only way to actually tackle piracy is to a: lower the price or b: increase the amount of content making the item actually worth it, am i the only person that rember when games shipped with soundtracks, maps and other things:)
 
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MegaUpload, one of the largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, has been shut down by federal prosecutors in Virginia. The site’s founder Kim Dotcom and three others were arrested by the police in New Zealand at the request of US authorities. MegaVideo, the streaming site belonging to same company, and a total of 18 domains connected to the Mega company were seized and datacenters in three countries raided. An indictment unsealed today by the Department of Justice claims MegaUpload has caused the entertainment industries more than $500 million in lost revenue and generated $175 million “in criminal proceeds.” Two corporations – Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited – were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on January 5th, 2012, and charged with “engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement.” Today, the authorities executed in excess of 20 search warrants in the United States and eight other countries and seized approximately $50 million in assets. A total of 18 Mega-related domains were seized


Data centers in the Netherlands, Canada and Washington were raided. In an apparent reference to the latter, a source has just informed TorrentFreak that the FBI are currently detaining everyone at the ISP Cogent Communications’ headquarters in Washington DC, in connection with a Mega-related search warrant. In addition to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom, another six alleged members of the Mega “conspiracy” were charged in the indictment, including residents of Germany, Slovakia, Turkey, Estonia and Netherlands. Owner Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by authorities there. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm are still at large.


According to the Department of Justice, the individuals named above face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit racketeering, five years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and five years in prison on each of the substantive charges of criminal copyright infringement.
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:mad::(
 
jas72 said:
They will be the last to go but really expect them to go as well.

The internet will be come a corporate giant. We can only hope that Europe which is TBH a very liberal continent protects it's citizens' rights when it comes to the might of the US.
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Why would youtube go? The artists get paid for their content on Youtube. Probably make a decent amount from ad revenue and also get free advertising as the video gets passed around the web.
 
Abraxaz1 said:
the real question is how long before 4chan get involved and all hell breaks loose, I would love to see there "rational" response to this.

they can't stop piracy its like a hydra, they cut off one off its heads and another 2 or more pop up in there place.
The only way to actually tackle piracy is to a: lower the price or b: increase the amount of content making the item actually worth it, am i the only person that rember when games shipped with soundtracks, maps and other things:)
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Or anonymous and the such like....

Having recently read the Jobs autobiography it was clear that he believed a cheap enough service would encourage people to buy rather than pirate. The success of the iTunes store partially testifies to this.

kd
 
And a lot of jobs to be lost and a lot of innovation wasted, all to benefit who?

Honestly some politicians haven't got a clue, and certainly the media industry are destroying their own market.
 
The main thing I worry about is all the companies who have strict piracy rules on their software and make it so hard to crack end up charging extortionate prices.
 
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Just feel like I should put that here.

Shame that it's been shut down, was the site I used when uploading files as free user speeds were good; important if the file size was large.
 
hola_adios said:
And a lot of jobs to be lost and a lot of innovation wasted, all to benefit who?

Honestly some politicians haven't got a clue, and certainly the media industry are destroying their own market.
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Media industry completely alienating it's own market as well.... We've had piracy all the way back to bootlegs and stuff, it's just much easier to do nowadays so it's exploded in popularity....

Spenty said:
The main thing I worry about is all the companies who have strict piracy rules on their software and make it so hard to crack end up charging extortionate prices.
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You're thinking of adobe aren't you....

kd
 
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