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Megaupload.com shut down by Feds

OBIO said:
I would love to see a good number other sites vanish as well. All those bit torrent sites all deserve a nice painful death.

While I know that there are legitimate file sharing sites, and legitimate uses for them...so often they become nothing more than a means to committ piracy.

OBIO
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In defence of bit torrent, there are legitimate uses; for a good while that was the only distribution method for the NL Scenery project, I seem to recall it being used here in conjunction with some of the CFS3 projects and the main Orbiter packs also offer it as an alternative. The problem with the proposed 'solution' is, it shoots first & asks questions later, so if somebody say "ooh, those nasty SOHers are doing ..." the plug gets pulled - I'm sure I don't have to remind anybody that exactly those kinds of allegations were flying around last year.
 
One important point that need to be considered, I know that sites such as Rapidshare will swiftly remove any content that has been stolen, PROVIDED the legitimate owner makes the request.
Getting the legal owners to do so can be a PITA ........ :173go1:

And an update:
.MegaUpload.com -Shut down
.FileServe.com - Shutdown soon? Not selling premium 'blocks' to several countries.
.FileJungle.com - Deleting archives. Blocked in USA.
.UploadStation.com - Blocked in USA
.FileSonic.com - Services closed
.VideoBB.com - Video services closed.
.Uploaded.to - Blocked in USA. Owners have gone missing. FBI wish to 'interview' them.
.PostFile.org - Deleting archives. Only .exe .pfd and .txt will remain.
.VideoZer.com - Shutdown soon? Blocked in USA and certain 'Allies'.
.4shared.com - Deleting copywrited material. Under FBI investigation.
.MediaFire.com - Summoned to court in 90 days to make a 'statement'. Required to 'open doors' for FBI investigation.
.Torrente.org - Shut down. Under investigaton.
.Kino.to - Closed. Owners under arrest in Europe.
.Duckload.com - Closed by owner, also under arrest.
 
That is hard to tell without a crystal ball but the fact still remains that distributing copy written material is illegal. It becomes hard and costly to go after all of these sites.

The normal game plan is to find the one person (in this case a site) that is breaking the most laws. You publicly execute (prosecute) that one person and the rest go running scared. Which is exactly what is happening now.

Some of these sites may not be even under investigation but they are shutting down fast. That should tell you they fear what someone may find if they look too closely.

BTW this process is what bankrupted the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
 
So, I have an account at Mediafire. I use it for backup of my important files, including my few payware aircaft. I got burned a couple years ago when my DVD burner went out and bought I new one, only to find that it couldn't read the disks that I burned with the old one. WTF?!? So I started uploading my files to "cloud" storage.

Now I guess I have to redownload them all, and burn them to disk before they disappear. And I guess delete the files from Mediafire before I'm accused of being a damn pirate....
 
Astoroth said:
So, I have an account at Mediafire. I use it for backup of my important files, including my few payware aircaft. I got burned a couple years ago when my DVD burner went out and bought I new one, only to find that it couldn't read the disks that I burned with the old one. WTF?!? So I started uploading my files to "cloud" storage.

Now I guess I have to redownload them all, and burn them to disk before they disappear. And I guess delete the files from Mediafire before I'm accused of being a damn pirate....
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Might be good insurance, but they were fully operational as of 24 hours ago.
I know, as I downloaded a completely legal Mod for rFactor, around 1GB+/-, at full speed.
However, and this just me, I would NEVER trust 'cloud storage', period.

:kilroy:
 
Will Google be next?

I ask because out of curiosity, I did some searching last night. While it wasn't the usual quick Google search, in not that long of time I found three different sources for a newer FSX release. I'm fairly certain that similar searching could locate the latest movie and music releases.

I don't believe this action has accomplished anything other then perhaps making other avenues of pirating more profitable and temporarily annoying those who download pirated material.
 
CWOJackson said:
Will Google be next?

I ask because out of curiosity, I did some searching last night. While it wasn't the usual quick Google search, in not that long of time I found three different sources for a newer FSX release. I'm fairly certain that similar searching could locate the latest movie and music releases.

I don't believe this action has accomplished anything other then perhaps making other avenues of pirating more profitable and temporarily annoying those who download pirated material.
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The problem is that these proposed bills (and ACTA, which is a pernicious attempt to bring these measures in by the back door) could be used against things like Google, Twitter etc. Rupert Murdoch recently made accusations of piracy against Google, which they are obviously refuting.

This is the thin end of a very big wedge. I've made it clear that I do not defend piracy; but do you guys really believe that these bills are about protecting copyright and IPR? Of course they aren't, they are about protecting the profit margins of companies like Sony & Universal (who are obviously nowhere near as poor as they would have us believe, or they wouldn't be able to manipulate the way they are); what they should be doing (should have done a long time ago) is look for ways to enter this new market, but they are so busy trying to maintain the status quo that they missed the boat way back & could well be looking at the same fate as Kodak. How often do you hear Apple complaining about piracy? If the music/film biz had talked to Napster/Gnutella, instead of attacking them, they could well be reaping the benefits that Apple are now enjoying, and Apple wuld have remained a niche computer company.

CWOJackson is right imo, what has happened over the last few days hasn't really harmed piracy, although it has removed one rather nasty set of criminals from the game. But it has clearly signalled what the game is about, and at the moment big business is dealing the cards; and will they care about publishers of PC software, if they get wrongly accused of piracy & forced out of business? Doubt it.
 
Astoroth said:
So, I have an account at Mediafire. I use it for backup of my important files, including my few payware aircaft. I got burned a couple years ago when my DVD burner went out and bought I new one, only to find that it couldn't read the disks that I burned with the old one. WTF?!? So I started uploading my files to "cloud" storage.

Now I guess I have to redownload them all, and burn them to disk before they disappear. And I guess delete the files from Mediafire before I'm accused of being a damn pirate....
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Why put your important files in 'cloud' storage? Wouldn't it make sense to just invest a few dollars on an external drive that you can simply just plug in and store your all important files especially the payware stuff?
 
mrogers said:
Why put your important files in 'cloud' storage? Wouldn't it make sense to just invest a few dollars on an external drive that you can simply just plug in and store your all important files especially the payware stuff?
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That's the best option when you're at home/work but when you're mobile it's not nearly as convenient.
 
mrogers said:
Why put your important files in 'cloud' storage? Wouldn't it make sense to just invest a few dollars on an external drive that you can simply just plug in and store your all important files especially the payware stuff?
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For some, "investing a few dollars on an external drive" is not a big deal. For me, it's the difference between having food on the table, and not, most paydays. When the factory I worked at closed, it was me and 900 other people scrambling to find jobs in an area where 95% of the jobs are minimum wage, and not very many of those. I was lucky and found a job. I know others that worked with me that are still unemployed, 3 years later...
 
I don't like to do this but I'm going to anyway.

It funny that we have old people (sorry to some old people here since this won't apply to most of you) that have no idea how the internet works trying to regulate it at the request of more old people that don't how the internet works too. After all the man once in charge of internet regulation called it "series of tubes"

Trying to force internet regulation like this will only make it harder on us users and grow a "Black Internet"
 
Allen said:
It funny that we have old people (sorry to some old people here since this won't apply to most of you) that have no idea how the internet works trying to regulate it at the request of more old people that don't how the internet works too. After all the man once in charge of internet regulation called it "series of tubes"

Trying to force internet regulation like this will only make it harder on us users and grow a "Black Internet"
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Yeah the nerve of them old people. Trying to understand something they invented in the 1960's. :icon_lol:

Internets been around a long time. The issue is not old people trying to understand something but special interest groups trying to control for their own benefit certain popular aspects of society.
 
Wing_Z said:
Megaupload's Kim Dotcom Loses Top-Ranked Position in Call of Duty!
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/26...-of-duty/?xid=newsletter-weekly#ixzz1kyHz45l0

How this is worthy of a news headline completely defeats me.
But I suspect there is a generation that has grown up to accept many of Kim's values, and think he is Cool.
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Where he's from they've been actively electing government officials from the "Pirate Party"; and we're not talking eye patches and peg legs.
 
Dangerousdave26 said:
Yeah the nerve of them old people. Trying to understand something they invented in the 1960's.
Internets been around a long time. The issue is not old people trying to understand something but special interest groups trying to control for their own benefit certain popular aspects of society.
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The Internet has changed since the small one made in the 60s. Modern Internet started in the 80s with TCP/IP and most did not have any way on it tell the 90s. The number of people that had a way on the old 60s and even 80s Internet is vary small and none of the were the old geezers now "in charge" of the internet.

CWOJackson said:
Where he's from they've been actively electing government officials from the "Pirate Party"; and we're not talking eye patches and peg legs.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

This is what happen when you piss of Anon. They take over your political system. After all the internet could be the biggest special interest group.
 
Wing_Z said:
But I suspect there is a generation that has grown up to accept many of Kim's values, and think he is Cool.​
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We can't legislate against stupidity mate!
And what an attractive person Kim is, a great role model for the brats out there, not!
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