Rant The start of the end, the death of megavideo

SOPA Isn't even in force yet is it? So its nothing to do with it.


Websites like these are asking for it now though..

 

I'm not in agreeance with piracy, however i don't agree with some of the prices they charge for new films dvd £15-20 bluray £20-25, sometimes they are cheaper when new but generally around that price. NOw i am not saying that this is a reason to get into piracy maybe we shpuld endorse it by say charging a bit more per month on the internet price (instead of say talk talk package of phone and internet of £28 a month, charge £40) and legalise downloading, the apeal will soon go for it.

I have a the same theory on other issues - legalise it and put a tax on the use of non medicated drugs and i bet more and more people will stop using them

 

You mean websites where it is possible to breach copyright? You'd agree with Youtube being taken down yeah?

 

I buy blurays. I hate being subject to a piracy notice when I've paid good money for it at the beginning of the disc.

 

heres 1 for you (hyperthetical situation)

if you buy a dvd or blu-ray and you make a daigital copy for storage on a HDD (like you can with the xbox 360 - install games to HDD) and the original disc get damaged beyond all use could you get fined/in trouble e.t.c. for having that copy which you have originally bought?

 

Unless you have proof of purchase, yes.

Which is also the reason I find it kind of funny when people say they threw out their CDs after ripping them to their NAS in FLAC format.

 

RIP Megaupload. Let us have 72 minutes of silence, followed by a 30 minute waiting period before we can continue our mourning.

 

Awesome!

On topic, I'm not sure about this and have mixed feelings. They were making money from people paying to download illegal content from their servers like it or not. They obviously knew this was happening. It would be interesting then to see how much paid for traffic was legal and illegal. My gut feeling says the majority was illegal.

 

Isnt Megaupload Hong Kong based, how can US law be applied there?

Megaupload was my favourite file hosting site, because unlike most they did not limit download speeds and/or make you wait like an hour before you download another file regardless of size (you would have a set amount you could download within a timeframe), if you didnt have a premium account.

They had a lot of illegal content put on there by users, but if it got reported as breaching copyright they took the content down without hassle as far as i could see.

And if they can do this already, why do they need SOPA and PIPA acts?

 

This is a case of widespread morality disagreeing with outdated laws though. People might know they can get in trouble for ripping their CD's and then chucking them, but they feel it's moral and so go ahead and do it. Just as many people will feel it's quite alright to download an album you've already bought if, say, your CD dies, or you're somewhere where you dont have the CD with you.


Right now laws aren't just out of date, they're being used to actively combat the consensus morality. Clearly this doesn't work, however I suppose those of us who favour a free internet just need to hope that this stupid crusade in which morals are fought with laws doesn't cost the world too much more excessively than it already has.

US law applies everywhere now. Heard of Julian Assange?

 

I'm agreeing with you. The problem is: Big Content isn't. Hence SOPA et al. Consider yourself guilty until proven innocent.

 

By a very broad application of what belongs to US - .com TLD belongs to Verisign, which means it belongs to US.

 

They had servers in Ashburn, VA which hosted pirated content, making them a legit target.

 

I'm totally gutted - loved megaupload because of the fast transfer speed and ease of use. I know there are many other file sharing sites out there but they all suck IMO.

GUTTED.

 

Me to Megaupload was always my favourite for the last 7 years for big patches and so on.

I remember when they had 100 mb limit

 

This whole megaupload takedown is f**king horses**t. I used megaupload regularly and never once was it for anything illegal.

It's been an absolute godsend on the numerous occasions when I've needed to store large amounts of logic work at uni and forgotten my USB stick.

A group I know often use it to translate & share Manga comics unavailable in the UK

A lot of friends use it share DJ mixes, samples, work in progress tunes etc.

I know the takedown was nothing to do with SOPA, but this is the kind of behavior SOPA will encourage.

 

It would seem that the problem is not simply the hosting of illegal content but rather the willing hosting of content which was known to be illegal. That's the key point. SOPA would allow for sites to be taken down for simply having illegal content, even unknowingly. They're pretty different.

I swear, going by half of the posts on this site you'd think that the world was going to end the next day the moment any legal action happens.

EDIT:

Take a read through the indictment, it's in Bindi's link. Allegation 20 says otherwise, though it'll remain to be seen if they can back this up in court.

 

This is nothing to do with SOPA, MUP was taken down with legislation already in place.

From what I've read, Staff at MUP knew about pirated material and were even downloading it themselves, and the material that was requested to be taken down by their TD Request tool was not (only the link changed).

The trouble is, other sites such as filesonic and fileserve are currently changing their policies so that anything anyone uploads (legal or not) is only accessible to the account that uploaded it in the first place.

 

Definitely recommend reading through the indictment, it'll give you the details straight from the horse's mouth. Linky.

Not so much the link changed, rather that any single file may have a number of link associated with it. Reports using the Abuse Tool only disabled a single link therefore to remove access to the file completely every single link must be found and reported.

It is indeed troubling to see other sites changing their policies. However, there'll be a lot learned from this for legitimate filesharing sites, specifically what needs to be done to be in accordance with current legislation.

 

other cyberlockers are closing down...