They have servers in the US.
so remove those servers?
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
They have servers in the US.
This. Megaupload was by FAR the easiest way to send huge chunks of photos, videos, etc to family members and friends. Attachment limits on email are a pain and facebook resizes them.I've used rapidshare and megaupload plenty of times to transfer legitimate files around.
Interesting thing is that megaupload was not even run from the US... Company was registered in Hong Kong, run buy some Dutch living in New Zealand. Damn scary to think that the US have enough financial leverage on the world to arrest people in any country for whatever crime they see fit
More horrifying is that the MPAA and the RIAA have so much influence.
But when the US goes and kills terrorist in Pakistan, where is the outcry over that?
Anyway, good riddance.
Horrifying but not much of a surprise. This is to be expected in an Inverted Totalitarian Kleptocracy such as the U.S.
If this was a country where the "representatives" within an ostensibly Representative Republic actually represented "we, the people" rather than big money corporate interests, this type of thing probably wouldn't happen. But we don't live in a functioning representative republic in any positive sense of that term. The federal police work for the interests of corporate power. Just like the bought and paid for politicians.
We either need to simply get used to it or join an aggressive social movement committed to changing things via peaceful direct action and civil disobedience campaigns.
depressing
It is a bit depressing to find out that the country you love and thought was a "democracy" actually isn't. I understand that. But it is also encouraging to really realize and understand what is actually happening around you and why. The truth does actually set you free. It gives you the knowledge and the ability to be truly hopeful and act in ways that can make a difference.
Most Americans have no idea. You can tell they don't because they are bound up in the sham of "elections" and arguing over which "better" (to their mind) candidate to vote for - a fools errand. It is a never ending death spiral where things get worse and worse for average people and yet they can't understand or figure it out.
realistically it should probably be closer to 500 trillion in lost revenue.
Regarding the dollars figures -- the following article pertains to SOPA and PIPA but it explains were all these companies and lobbies get their big numbers declared as their loss in revenue:
How Copyright Industries Con Congress
LOL. Every subatomic particle that makes up the earth doesn't total to $500 trillion dollars of value.
As a side note, I think we could make a couple million selling the Statue of Liberty since we don't need it anymore.
Illegal immigrants cost us billions, but this administration has decided to turn a blind eye to that issue.
Megaupload had a record of failing to take down reported material or lying about it having been removed. On top of that, the branches Megavideo and Porn were literally 99% illegal material. If it's a bank where only illegal activity takes place, then you look into it.
Read the indictment?So you say. Where's the substantiation of your claims?
Read the indictment?
Like the Arstechnica article points out, the people defending Megaupload should realize that to them it has nothing to do with fair use or freedom of speech since they accused all of their competitors of doing the same thing, before this even happened. If those other sites had gone down first, Megaupload would've been a proponent of it.
Again, look at the indictment. Their whole business was built around tiptoeing a line and doing just enough to claim plausible deniability, and then charge a subscription fee to people for unlimited access to the pirated material that may or may not be removed.
They had A LOT of legitimate content. Heck, they had a music video from numerous artists singing about them. They took down copyrighted content after receiving a DMCA notice (even the indictment says that), but copyright owners were upset that somebody could just go and upload it again and the server didn't automatically block the new upload/link being generated.
A lot of custom Android ROMs from XDA-Developers were hosted on Megaupload as an example of content now missing that will probably affect people visiting this site.
Megaupload employees apparently knew how the site was being used. When making payments through its uploader rewards program, employees sometimes looked through the material in those accounts first. "10+ Full popular DVD rips (split files), a few small porn movies, some software with keygenerators (warez)," said one of these notes. (The DMCA does not provide a "safe harbor" to sites who have actual knowledge of infringing material and do nothing about it.)
In a 2008 chat, one employee noted that "we have a funny business... modern days [sic] pirates ," to which the reply was, "we're not pirates, we're just providing shipping servies [sic] to pirates ."
Employees send each other e-mails saying things like, can u pls get me some links to the series called Seinfeld from MU [Megaupload]," since some employees did have access to a private internal search engine.
Employees even allegedly uploaded content themselves, such as a BBC Earth episode uploaded in 2008.
Other messages appear to indicate that employees knew how important copyrighted content was to their business. Content owners had a specific number of takedown requests they could make each day; in 2009, for instance, Time Warner was allowed to use the abuse tool to remove 2,500 links per day. When the company requested an increase, one employee suggested that "we can afford to be cooperative at current growth levels" implying that if growth had not been so robust, takedowns should be limited. Kim Dotcom approved an increase to 5,000 takedowns a day.
Employees also had access to analytics. One report showed that a specific linking site had produce[d] 164,214 visits to Megaupload for a download of the copyrighted CD/DVD burning software package Nero Suite 10. The software package had the suggested retail price of $99. The government's conclusion: Megaupload knew what was happening and did little to stop it.
Fascinating read. Like they say you can make statistics say what ever you want them to say,
The truth from that article:
Total loss to Hollywood from piracy = ~$500 million
Total loss to US economy = $0
I've breezed through the actual Indictment - thing is 72 pages long! They're going back to 2005 and appear to have a lot of emails, etc. along with the FBI d/l copyright materials. There's 6 pages of property subject to forfeiture alone in the indictment. They did "tiptoe" around the line, but some of the internal emails are damning; i.e. they not only knew but were asking for specific files. And the paying people to upload? oh boy, that's got to be asking for trouble. I was totally unaware of this "rewards" program. Then again, I never paid Mega a penny and I never uploaded or d/l anything (movie, etc.) from them.
I'm also curious as to your assertion that illegal immigrants cost us billions. They aren't eligible for food stamps or welfare. They don't get tax refunds, and their contributions to Social Security don't accrue to them either.
Actually, their loss is the 20% of those 500millions, since from what the article said only 20% of the people who pirated would have otherwise bought the actual item.
So 100million US$ and 0
my speeling is crap but you get my point
well... that kinda sucks.
and i'm really curious where that $500million in lost revenue comes from.