I’m not sorry for Megaupload. This company earned all of its profits by selling access to content it didn’t own. Copyright laws may be fragile and they are absolutely in need of reforms but politics only work with compromises, cooperation and patience. YouTube shows how it can be done. Megaupload has never reached out to media organizations. Shutting down the website is no attack against the freedom of the internet. It’s simply an action to prevent people from making profit of other people’s work.
* Megaupload didn’t sell acces to copyrighted material, it made its money from advertising and Pro accounts
* Closing Megaupload is like closing a bank beacause its vaults could be used to store illegal money/merchandising
* Movie and music industries are doing things wrong. They see a competition where there isn’t any, they fail to see that people want this kind of access to the media (immediate, 24/7) If they offered qualty legal service like this, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Come on, they were very aware of the fact that most of their traffic had to do with their copyright material. According to e-mails they embraced that and discussed how to protect themselves from governments. The people paying for those premium accounts weren’t just sharing their family albums. If there’s a bank which mainly stores illegal money then I sure would like that bank to be shut down.
But basically I’m with you on this. A technology shouldn’t be dismissed because some people use it in ways that are against the laws. And I am absolutely no fan of how the media industry is handling these things, I’m pretty sure that they will lose this fight in the end.
overgun thats a fucking excuse. the users who uploaded attractive stuff even got money from them. hell, they really knew what kind of material it was.
asu dem fbi-doc:
On or about July 1, 2008, DOTCOM sent an e-mail to ORTMANNentitled “[Fwd: Illegal links]”. DOTCOM instructed him: “Never delete files from privaterequests like this. I hope your current automated process catches such cases.”kk.
On or about July 9, 2008, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail to a third-party, entitled “funny chat-log.” In the e-mail, VAN DER KOLK copied the text of a previousonline conversation between himself and ORTMANN, in which VAN DER KOLK had stated,“we have a funny business . . . modern days pirates :)” ORTMANN responded, “we’re notpirates, we’re just providing shipping services to pirates :)”