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| Thread ID: 122906 | 2012-01-19 20:48:00 | Megaupload gone | nedkelly (9059) | PC World Chat |
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| 1255210 | 2012-01-25 03:30:00 | They sure do like to brag about their exploits (always a smart move) www.facebook.com Be pretty funny if they end up in a cell next to Kim Dotcom - they sure as hell wouldn't fit in the same cell :lol: |
Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1255211 | 2012-01-26 06:19:00 | I'm really starting to wonder.. Of all the file sites on the web, why did they go after Megaupload. It might have been the millons upon millions the guy made but it surely couldn't be because of this could it? <From stuff.co.nz> "Online file-storage service Megaupload.com was working on a legitimate music download service as recently as December that impressed the chief executive of New Zealand internet society InternetNZ. United States technology website Techcrunch said the service, Megabox, was designed to let artists sell music direct to consumers online, cutting out record labels, and could even have seen them paid small amounts when they allowed their music to be downloaded for free. Techcrunch said Megabox was tested with listed partners of 7digital, Gracenote, Rovi, and Amazon the world's largest online retailer. Amazon would not comment on the nature of any relationship. InternetNZ chief executive Vikram Kumar said he was impressed by the business model for Megabox, which seemed completely legitimate. Megaupload.com chief executive Kim Dotcom and three associates face extradition to the United States on copyright, racketeering and money laundering charges after their arrest last week. Kumar said the case against them would boil down to the level of knowledge they had about illegal file-sharing taking place through Megaupload.com and the actions they took to prevent it. Emails cited in the US indictment appeared ''quite incriminating'' but the case would not be easy, he said. In denying bail for Dotcom, judge David McNaughton said he had been operating "in plain sight for some years'' and appeared to have an ''arguable defence'' against copyright charges levelled against him. "No doubt very considerable resources will be brought to bear both for the prosecution and the defence should the matter proceed to trial,'' he said. Kumar speculated the legal action might be settled before then." I suspect there is a lot of ubermedia and american justice sytem string pulling happening here. |
Catweazle (2535) | ||
| 1255212 | 2012-01-26 10:58:00 | United States technology website Techcrunch said the service, Megabox, was designed to let artists sell music direct to consumers online, cutting out record labels, and could even have seen them paid small amounts when they allowed their music to be downloaded for free. Definitely sounds like something the MAFIAA would not like. Would not surprise me if they targeted Megaupload for these kinds of reasons. There are many other sites like Megaupload they could have gone after. Don't forget that Megaupload also filed a lawsuit against Universal Music: www.wired.com |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1255213 | 2012-01-26 11:27:00 | I'm really starting to wonder.. Of all the file sites on the web, why did they go after Megaupload. It might have been the millons upon millions the guy made but it surely couldn't be because of this could it? MU, FSc, FS, HF, wU pay uploaders for the amount of downloads their files get. This is financing piracy. Rapidshare and other do not do this, and hence aren't targeted. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1255214 | 2012-01-26 20:49:00 | MU, FSc, FS, HF, wU pay uploaders for the amount of downloads their files get. This is financing piracy. Rapidshare and other do not do this, and hence aren't targeted. And yet all say in their fine print you are not allowed to put copyrighted content on to their space. Damn im gonna friggen create a megauplaod site too, do a few years, who cares? |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1255215 | 2012-01-26 21:39:00 | And yet all say in their fine print you are not allowed to put copyrighted content on to their space. Damn im gonna friggen create a megauplaod site too, do a few years, who cares? That's not quite it. You can start a filesharing service if you want. Obviously you will put up a disclaimer. The question is, how do you attract customers to your service? The easy option is offer a few bucks for 1000 hits to the uploaders. That attracts you downloaders because you have a lot of content, who in turn fill your coffers with pirate gold via premium subscriptions. You removed copyright infringements as soon as you are notified to appease, to an extent, the media overlord. All the issues started when FSc (wUpload), HF and FS came into the arena. They flooded the internet with masses of duplicate links from sites like MU. For the copyright holders it was became much harder to make complaints when you have theses new services copying file at a massive rate (FTP awesomeness, copy from other services, etc)... The pirates of newer flicks were making hundreds of dollars a day. So they went against the big fish to make a point, because presumably they had additional ammunition against MU. Mr Dotcom should have gotten out of the game when he was rich enough to do so. He didn't and now he will suffer. Hubris is a *****. |
Cato (6936) | ||
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