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Maurice Boscorelli
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Piss me off I miss Mega Upload big time. Now using Rapidshare but it's just not the same.
You have to wonder exactly what the charge(s) is/are......He wasn't the one sharing the files, he just provided the space for others to do so......but you have to hand it to him. The only cost he had was handling the money, and file space online. It was kind of like opening a store, then having others pay him to stock it with merchandise, and have customers pay to shop there lol......
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tboy said:
But this is not a LOL for them.
Police arrested founder Kim Dotcom and three Megaupload employees on U.S. accusations that they facilitated millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue
SneakySnake said:
I wonder, will the police now arrest people who sell and or make cars that can break the speed limit? I mean, they facilitate millions of crimes every day......
How about the phone company? they faciliate verbal threats, obscene phone calls etc every day....
How about the actual ISPs? They too facilitate the file sharing.....
Just saying, if you're going to charge one person with "facilitation" you should charge them all......
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Jesus Quintana
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No, but they may be willing to go after people who SHARE the files. I'm sure that there is some statute about not sharing what you've bought. Remember years ago the foofraw that they made about record-able cassettes??? Fuck I'm old.
Short-hairless said:
The way around that is the fact that our government puts tariffs on recordable media which is supposed to be used to finance new artists, production, distribution etc. But what it really is is just one more tax.
If you read the fine print one is legally allowed to make a copy of say, an album they purchased to be used on various devices. For eg: you buy a cd. You have a cd player in your home stereo but not a portable to use while jogging. You are allowed by law to make a copy onto an mp3 player.
Just like buying a book: it would be unenforceable to limit you to say, reading it at home, in the can, while you're taking a dump. You can take it with you wherever you go and read it there. One thing though, if you do re-sell it, you're supposed to forward a commission to the printer.....
With all that being said I DO support a crackdown on first run movies, software, and recently released music. I think a time limit should be placed on when you can legally distribute it. We were talking about this the other day and I am 100% against charging $6.99 to rent a PPV movie like Deliverance which is the same rental price as Hangover II. All that is is greed, pure and simple.
One reason I give props to Lady GaGa is during her Howard Stern interview he said "all the downloading of your music must piss you off"....know what she said "I don't care, I have enough money.....I want people to listen to and enjoy my music...."....BIG props for that attitude.
