Megaupload has been shut down
 

Hello

Megaupload has been shot down by the FBI yesterday. Pretty sad...

What are you thinking about that?

Don't really have a problem with it. It will focus the minds of those who run other similar sites to do more to combat illegal file sharing.

PPP

I will play the conspiracy theory card: Elvis got annoyed about his music being downloaded for free, so from the comfort of his Moon base he talked to the giant lizards living under the Earth crust and they forced the X-Files office of the FBI to close Megauploads..

I'm still investigating whether Hitler was involved in this too, but my agents in Brazil said it's all quiet there.


On a more serious note, this is the sign of how powerful record labels and cinema majors have become. The world would be such a better place without these money grabbing ba$tards, but hey, they're there and have no intention of going anywhere.

You can still produce fantastic films without insane budgets (frankly, spending hundreds of million dollars on a movie is one of the most abhorrent things ever), and musicians can still make their own independent labels. Problem is that esp. the music industry has become a proper multimillion profitable business, where managers sit down around a table and design artists, bands and fashions to go with that..

which is virtually impossible...

utter BS

im pretty sure i've downloaded every il2 patch from there.

Megaupload is a very 2005 way for piracy. i mainly use it for legal stuff now a days.

i've every single USL briefing ive made in there.

the american lot should go and put it up is back. its not your internet, stop trying to control it.

lets just wait for megaupload to switch is servers to a true free country.

My words... Internet is a place where people can think freely and therefore should have very little limitations... (I am not saying there shouldn´t be any limitations...!)

OK, so I have a very large and successful shop in any city, in any country. I have thousands of customers and turn a nice profit. I sell mainly legitimate stuff, but some of the stuff I know (or ought to know, it's my shop after all) is stolen. Is that ok?

PPP

in that particular case obviously no, but what about ebay? ebay don't sell the items but who is to say if the individuals selling are legit? do we shut down ebay?

The question is what will they do with all the legal stuff user hve uploaded ?

Some don't even hev any backups. Are the USA so broke that the FBI need to do some robbery ? Or did they sent an advice ?

For me it looks like as if the police was ordering a USAF B52 to bomb a highway just to stop a pursuit.

Do you mean a country where theft is acceptable when you say free? What makes you think you're above the law?

You admit to using if for illegal downloads yet blame "the Americans"

You want to blame someone, blame the people who committed the crime not the people enforcing it. If people weren't using it for illegal stuff it would still be there.