US prosecutors shut down Megaupload

[kali]

US prosecutors shut down Megaupload

McLEAN, Va. — One of the world’s largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said. An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart online piracy.

oh, oh.....

[SJ]

fuck these cunts from the motion picture and music industries (no offense to those that work in the industry - I guess I'm talking at the distributors actually)

I went to buy some DVD's the other day - CAN"T FIND THEM ANYWHERE...

I wanted to buy a season 3 dvd for someone - CAN"T FIND IT ANYWHERE


HOW CAN I BUY YOUR PRODUCTS YOU STUPID WASTES OF SHIT IF YOU DON"T KEEP THEM STOCKED IN THE STORES

the current season was 4 - I wanted season 3 - I went to 5 fucking stores - count em 5

and I couldn't find that dvd anywhere - and it was a popular show...

fuck them - they've been fighting piracy for 50 years and haven't won once. This is gonna be war

[SJ]

The real problem is that the movie and music industry shit the bed when it came down to their formatting choice.

A cd by default has the same encryption as the sega dreamcast - NONE. it's simply .wav format audio. When computing advanced the music industry HAD to have known it was going to screw up their deal... But instead of developing a way to distribute the products in a universal way to the consumer, they simply sat there and have still done 0.0 to fix THEIR mistake.

This applies to dvd format as well although they did at least take steps to encrypt their format. However even if you protect the sold copies... you can still walk into a theatre with a good HD camcorder and tape it....

People have been bootlegging since the dawn of time. Hell even if you stopped selling cd's and offering downloads and went back to records only - people would simply put their record on the USB turntable and rip it back onto the computer. BTW how much you wanna bet that the record industry has their hands in the companies that make those very turntables?

tl;dr - it's never going to end and I think it's a shame the industry isn't inventing a newer format and instead using the government to fight THEIR battle. They got themselves into this mess, they should get themselves out.

[SJ]

Not to mention they really did it to themselves by simply overflowing the market on dvd's and overpricing them.

people were paying 89.99 a fucking SEASON for certain stuff and now you can get it at wallmart for 19.99? that really stuck with a lot of people I think and turned them off buying at all.

[kali]

+++
I have been looking for a film for YEARS!
still can't find it.
these idiots don't know when they HAVE a good product. morons

[Cjean]

To bad people are more worried about the internet censorship, than their rights being censored and stripped. Wouldn't even had SOPA on the floor had the NDAA not been passed. Gov gives a fuck about the copy rights. And they proved they did not need SOPA to enforce the law by raiding megaupload. Was like a big FUCK YOU. Dont trust google either their only concern is the entity in which is handed those powers.

[kali]

How The Web Blackout Changed the Game on Online Piracy

some interesting points here. maybe the congress pissed some of their pants ???

[SJ]

Originally Posted by kali How The Web Blackout Changed the Game on Online Piracy some interesting points here. maybe the congress pissed some of their pants ???

according to one stat I saw - on jan 18th there were 80 members of congress FOR the SOPA bill.... on jan 19th there were 65 supporters and almost 100 members opposed.

I can't remember where I saw this though so I don't know how factual it is...

Seems to me like a lot of people are unhappy with the shutdown of megaupload.

It shows gross mis-use of power.

I thought about this a LOT yesterday and the main conclusion I'm drawing from all this is that america wants to be communist china...

Where else in the world do they censor the internet except china?

[kali]

I saw similar numbers about the switch.....If I find the link I'll post it here.

the corporations may want the US to be like china but I sure the hell don't. fuck that!

http://www.flixxy.com/the-day-the-lol-cats-died.htm