why megaupload was shut down!

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What dross. There's nothing stopping anyone setting up a site like that and nothing the music industry could do about it.

It was shut down as warnings were sent and ignored, copyrighted material was not removed. Numoures emails from owners and staff discusing and sharing copyright material links and a few other things. That's why it was shut down.
 
Nobody even knew Megaupload was a legitimate website per se until all this kicked off. Most people thought it was just a spyware drop site.
 
Read into it a bit before casting judgment, if its a spyware site how the hell did they make millions through legitimate means? and get so much support from artists?

A whole bunch of sharing sites have gone down, its obvious its all money motivated and the average person says "GOOD GET THEM THEY'RE ILLEGAL" not realizing the whole truth.
 
LabR@t said:
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Makes sense now the big music mafia was facing a massive drop in legal revenue.
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Lets think about this.

A site which attracts it's users and advertising profits and premium subscriptions on the basis of letting them download absolutely anything for free.

And they're going to try and sell music. lol. If they were actually going to do this you can bet they would have started to be stricter about the free part.


NathanE said:
Nobody even knew Megaupload was a legitimate website per se until all this kicked off. Most people thought it was just a spyware drop site.
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What on earth? It was one of the most popular websites in the world and a multi million dollar corporation...
 
The reason it was shut down was because services like RapidShare were sharing info with police, torrents were also receiving a lot of heat over the last 18 months, so mega upload presented a lot of opportunity. If you look at the growth over the last couple of years it shows that massive amounts of pirated content ended up on megaupload.
 
Of course that was the real reason. Nothing to do with the millions of people using it to download illegal content or for steaming the latest TV series/film using a certain streaming service.
 
As I said, most people have never heard of them. They occupy a darker corner of the Internet. They're a throw back to the 1990's web in some ways. Black background web pages, DoubleClick style advertising, popup boxes galore, countdown clocks before your download begins. All things associated with malware infestations. That's why no one gives a toss that they're disappearing. They won't be missed.
 
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