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Ark of Truth

Ark of Truth

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The 72-page indictment, handed down by a federal grand jury in Virginia on January 5, charges the seven people, including Megaupload's founders Kim Dotcom and Mathias Ortman, with conspiracy."

 

 

America is happy unless it has a conspiracy!

 

The indictment charges that the "Mega conspiracy" has for more than five years operated websites that willfully distributed pirated movies, often before their theatrical release, and other illegal copies of copyrighted works, earning the company over $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue. Megaupload is also charged with money laundering by paying uploaders through an "uploader reward program," and paying other companies to host the pirated content.

 

I find some of this hard to believe :-/ and how come America is spearheading this?? I live in the UK and we haven't heard anything about this.

 

 

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gregathit

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I think this is really just a test case for the Movie and Music industry to see if they can bully their way into forcing things now that their "pet legislation" is taking a nose dive. Typical lawyer scumbag move, if you can't beat them, then just sue them.

As to why America is the spearhead.....one word "Hollywood" :(

Damn shame California hasn't slid into the ocean yet.

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Guest Donkey

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i really hope lawyers start seeing the light, and the next big sue will be companies like bethesda, micorsoft etc.. for releasing crappy programms who dosn not work after many patches to fix something that should have been fixed before even releasing it..

 

Anyway what does this mean about megaupload ?? Is it gone for good, or is do they even have prove about this ??

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Tsukikage

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Anyway what does this mean about megaupload ?? Is it gone for good' date=' or is do they even have prove about this ??

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There are many technicalities involved, but realistically the site will come back if and only if they win the case or, more likely, make a settlement. It verges on guilty-until-proven-innocent.

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Ark of Truth

Ark of Truth

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i really hope lawyers start seeing the light' date=' and the next big sue will be companies like bethesda, micorsoft etc.. for releasing crappy programms who dosn not work after many patches to fix something that should have been fixed before even releasing it..

 

Anyway what does this mean about megaupload ?? Is it gone for good, or is do they even have prove about this ??

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Well it's supposed to be gone for good, but megavideo.bz has been converted to Megaupload. At the moment no one knows, but Universal Music was supposed to off got them shut down for these videos.

 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/megaupload-shut-down.html

 

and

 

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/megaupload-taken-down-on-piracy-allegations/

 

all because Celeb's were promoting it

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Tsukikage

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Given the timing, and thinking further about the MPAA/RIAA mindset, I'm pretty sure this was intended as a divide and conquer strategy. Taken aback by the scope of popular opposition to SOPA/PIPA, they wanted to split it between a megaupload-supporting faction and a more "moderate" anti-megaupload faction. What they fail to understand is that the Internet fundamentally is information, and it interprets an attack on such a massive storehouse of information as a direct assault on itself. We are not divided; we are angry.

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Mashi

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Great' date=' SOPA and PIPA sure are ruining the internet.

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Neither of those laws are even enacted yet, or pass reading in the US congress or house. But they were still able to extra-judiciously get people, and shut down multiple domains without due process.

 

This means that there's laws already on the books that can do this, which means that those laws don't need to be enacted. Rather existing laws need to be looked at enforce to see what's, what.

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Cryska

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What both SOPA/PIPA boil down to is that they simply give written legal precedence to what they did to Megaupload. Can they do what they want? Pretty much yes..but with bills like SOPA/PIPA it just gives them both more breathing room and a wider scope from which to act.

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Guest ThatOne

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SOPA\PIPA equal the end of the internet...

 

Gather ye mods while ye may; old times are still a-flying,

And this same site that runs today, tomorrow will be dying (or, well, blocked anyway).

 

Don't you doubt that they will find out some armors\clothes were ripped to Oblivion, and even this nice forum can get shut down in the blink of an eye.

 

(For those who did not recognize, this is a reference to the poem "To the virgins, to make much of time).

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