USA Government shut down MegaUpload... but they can't close Pirate Bay ( basically even 'worse' and bigger pirating site on net and others )Irony, ehh ?
Alakagom wrote:
USA Government shut down MegaUpload... but they can't close Pirate Bay ( basically even 'worse' and bigger pirating site on net and others )Irony, ehh ?
especially when there is also quite a lot of legit content on megaupload.
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It's disgusting that they shut down MegaUpload. As far as I'm aware, it works exactly like YouTube. Uploaders can upload what they want, and if someone reports that a file infringes copyright, it's removed.
I, for one, has never used MegaUpload for illegal purposes, so it's quite annoying to see it shut down.
Edited by CrueTrue on 20-01-2012 21:18
CrueTrue wrote:
It's disgusting that they shut down MegaUpload. As far as I'm aware, it works exactly like YouTube. Uploaders can upload what they want, and if someone reports that a file infringes copyright, it's removed.
I, for one, has never used MegaUpload for illegal purposes, so it's quite annoying to see it shut down.
Theoretically you're right.
Now, look at facts, even though it was used for legal stuff, most of its traffic was due to piracy or that kind of illegal stuff.
Then it appears that the founders of MegaUpload have apparently earned hundreds of billions of euros (or US$) thanks to their website.
What I find more questionable is that the USA rule the internet. M.U. wasn't an US site, or anything, but the FBI was allowed to shut it down (world wide) and arrest guys who're not even US citizens in foreign countries. And the US govt. doesn't want to hear anything about sharing the responsibility to rule the internet with other countries (through U.N.O. or something).
So I decided to buy the digital version of FM12 today. Now, I generally don't like to pay too much, so I always scan the market before buying.
The easiest option would be to buy it through Steam. I'm shown a price of 50 € - but I know for a fact that it's sold for 20 £ on the British shop... For whatever reason, not valid for me.
Then I checked out numerous other shops - ended up at GamesPlanet where I was shown a price of 25 £ - no tricks. Reasonable price, so I bought it without any problems.
... except now my order is being validated, and I won't receive a key until it's been validated.
It takes me 15 minutes to download an illegal copy of the game. So far I have spent hours trying to buy FM12 without being ripped off. Unsuccesfull so far.
So I decided to buy the digital version of FM12 today. Now, I generally don't like to pay too much, so I always scan the market before buying.
The easiest option would be to buy it through Steam. I'm shown a price of 50 € - but I know for a fact that it's sold for 20 £ on the British shop... For whatever reason, not valid for me.
Then I checked out numerous other shops - ended up at GamesPlanet where I was shown a price of 25 £ - no tricks. Reasonable price, so I bought it without any problems.
... except now my order is being validated, and I won't receive a key until it's been validated.
It takes me 15 minutes to download an illegal copy of the game. So far I have spent hours trying to buy FM12 without being ripped off. Unsuccesfull so far.
Yeah, i was pissed about similar problems with Heroes of MaM6 and FM12 too. Anytime the producers are trying to do something against pirates it ends up going against standart buyers/users, pirates has no problems to break it anyway...
CrueTrue wrote:
It's disgusting that they shut down MegaUpload. As far as I'm aware, it works exactly like YouTube. Uploaders can upload what they want, and if someone reports that a file infringes copyright, it's removed.
I, for one, has never used MegaUpload for illegal purposes, so it's quite annoying to see it shut down.
Theoretically you're right.
Now, look at facts, even though it was used for legal stuff, most of its traffic was due to piracy or that kind of illegal stuff.
Then it appears that the founders of MegaUpload have apparently earned hundreds of billions of euros (or US$) thanks to their website.
What I find more questionable is that the USA rule the internet. M.U. wasn't an US site, or anything, but the FBI was allowed to shut it down (world wide) and arrest guys who're not even US citizens in foreign countries. And the US govt. doesn't want to hear anything about sharing the responsibility to rule the internet with other countries (through U.N.O. or something).
You know Americans, they think they have right to bring their "freedom" everywhere, so no problem for them to justify this I would like UN to be bigger force in this issues, but i am afraid they are not a force at all.
Well, reading more about MegaUpload, it does seem that the people behind it are some pretty "hard" criminals - money laundering etc.
It's still pretty crazy - several of the large sites have shut down the past few days, FileSonic, FileServe, Uploaded.to being a few of them. Multiupload has been quite unstable, too.
That's quite a lot of files that have disappeared in a matter of days.
Edited by CrueTrue on 24-01-2012 12:18
Very, very annoying. As I used these filesharing sites also te deposit many personal data files from my school days. Most of it is gone now. Ofcourse I still have it on my HD but it pisses me off that perfectly legal things vanish like this because of the USA gov being a pain in the ass again.
Seriously who the f.ck do they think they are? And they wonder why half the world hates them
But where is the difference to other sites? For example google earns millions with youtube and I am pretty sure there is as much illegal stuff on youtube as on megaupload. As far as I know, every video containing footage of other people would require their agreement, same goes for background music. And what about all the recordings of TV shows or broadcasts?
As far as I understand, YouTube only has to remove the files when they are asked to by the copyright holders. So yes, there are billions of videos that infringe copyright, but it's up to the copyright holders to ask them to be removed.
I would like UN to be bigger force in this issues, but i am afraid they are not a force at all.
