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Superior Bacon
 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:07 pm 
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so the guy who owns megaupload is a total dick but megaupload was hella convenient

rip megaupload

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:02 pm 
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We should take 72 minutes of silence for megavideo too

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Mr. Mander
 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:48 pm 
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BUT THATS WHERE I GOT MY WAKFU EPISODES FROM

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BurntToShreds
 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:00 pm 
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Maybe you should start learning French so that you can understand the DVDs?

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Kalekemo
 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:01 pm 
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Wasn't megaupload the site that only let you watch 75 minutes of something at a time?


Either way, ignoring cease and desist demands gets no sympathies from me

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 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:04 pm 
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hey look
Megaupload is fighting back
they are hiding in their IP

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Galaxy Man
 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:17 pm 
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"The indictment charges the defendants with conspiring to launder cheddar by paying users through the sites’ uploader reward program and paying companies to host the infringing content"


I'm not sure about this, but does that mean they're basically being sued because they had membership programs?


They were paying people, and making a direct profit of, copyrighted materials. Naturally, without the say-so of the owners.

So, essentially, they pay people to put pirated or otherwise illegally obtained things (music, movies, shit like that) up on other sites in order to make more people come to their site and thus make more cheddar.

They knowingly profited from both the uploading and the handing out of the illegal materials. That's pretty bad.

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Valbrandur
 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:27 am 
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Kalekemo wrote:
Wasn't megaupload the site that only let you watch 75 minutes of something at a time?


You're thinking of megavideo there.
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Shad
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:29 am 
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Kalekemo wrote:
Either way, ignoring cease and desist demands gets no sympathies from me

MegaUpload ALWAYS took down infringing material when copyright owners requested them to.

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D-vid
 Post subject: Re: MegaUpload shut down by the feds
PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:52 am 
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I'm 99% sure that the sudden taking down of megaupload after megaupload sued Universal Music is no coincidence.

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Shad
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:48 am 
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Yet more info on the MegaUpload takedown: a quick summary of what can be found in the 72-page indictment.

It seems like MegaUpload wasn't being honest with the copyrighter material being taken down.

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Madican
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:32 pm 
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Yeah, from what I've read MU had this coming.

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Galaxy Man
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:51 pm 
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Yeah, this isn't really anything related to trying to take control of the internet, this is actual large lawbreaking going on. It just came at a bad time, seriously, wait a few weeks FBI come on.

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Syobon
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:12 pm 
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It does seem a bit like a show of force, after MU sued UMG. I wonder what will become of that.
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