Megaupload file-sharing site shut down

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

Stuff gets deleted from megaupload all the time.


The part about this that pisses me off the most was that MU wasn't given a day in court. Just taken offline with no process whatsoever. Orwellian BS.

That and just the principle of the whole case in general, punishing the creators of a legitimate service because some users use that service to infringe on copyrights. They might as well shut down and arrest the makers of the VHS cassette and CDs while they're at it, along with any other sort of media storage device.

And that's happened without SOPA or PIPA being in law. So they want more power to squash piracy? Like all prohibition, it simply drives the behaviour underground, turns almost every citizen into an accomplice and improves the chances of corruption.

Instead of taking the right response to a market challenge, they run off to the hill asking for more legislation. What they should be doing is marketing their product and making it more freely available on the net at a reasonable cost.

I think the thing that scares the crap out of the music moguls is that their artists can simply cut them out of the sales process and deal direct with the customer on the net. Hope that happens sooner rather than later and some of these twunts get some come uppance.