Winapp, just tried the megaupload IP & it states they are going online via that, but it won't connect.
Must be still working on it.
Anyway, so much for land of the free, home of the brave!
This just shows that we don't even need SOPA to tear down websites based outside the US.
...sigh..
so much for land of the free
It has never been free, they let us do particular things to keep the farce alive.
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I'm surprised they haven't pulled the plug on YouTube, well at least those "promised music videos" which turn out to be a damned still image screenshot of an album cover playing music. Surely that isn't legal either.
Why, I'm horrified that they still leave free radio.
Surely, that's the worst piracy of all? I mean, I have a Rockford system in my car.
What happens if the people riding with me bump to some good music? Is that wrong? LOL!
Oh, why did I give gestepado USA ideas, Look for FREE radio to be criminalized next, & all those "non-payin pirates" to be jailed!
The good news is that if they do that now, you can sue them for stealing your idea!
megaupload is still available via IP
I hope you don't mean this. http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-back-120120/
This is what Megaupload currently shows...even with the IP address:
I hope you don't mean this. http://torrentfreak....ad-back-120120/
It was still up briefly, i guess they seized the IP as well after this was noticed.
Seems to be a bit of reaction in the file serving sites in the last couple of days. Some big players have changed terms and smaller sites have just shut up shop.
http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-ecosystem-shocked-as-big-players-take-drastic-action-120123/
Seems to be a bit of reaction in the file serving sites in the last couple of days. Some big players have changed terms and smaller sites have just shut up shop.
Not to mention the calm, measured reactions from the gentle readers.
Not to mention those blistering 68 KB/sec download speeds. 
Hope Photobucket doesn't kick the bucket, also. :-)
I sort of do >: )
I sort of do >: )
Egad, Winapp, are you a Photobucket foe? With the evil grin and all?
Perhaps
I've noticed that in EVERY case (that I am aware of) of so called "Piracy", they always call sharing piracy.
They don't call sharing stealing, because it's not. So they hope you will accept their switch-over & say, hey! Piracy = stealing, so stealing is wrong!
That's where they are right. Piracy & stealing are both definitely wrong. But since sharing isn't stealing, no crime has been committed except by those who created that law.
I hate the MPAA/RIAA as organizations, especially their attempts to get the term 'copyright infringement' synonmyous with 'theft'
I hate the MPAA/RIAA as organizations, especially their attempts to get the term 'copyright infringement' synonmyous with 'theft'
And not only that, they don't attempt to make anyone pay a reasonable amount.
They always try for some huge exorbitant amount that no-one could pay off in a life-time. Like $1,000,000.
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Where's the anti price gouging laws? I mean, this is an extreme price gouging. Ain't no $0.99 MP3 EVER worth millions of $$$.
If they can do this, they need to apologize to the company that was busted for price gouging generators for double their worth during a storm.
This isn't just double. It's 1,000,0000 times the sale price. That's 1,000,000% gouging!
Normally, price gouge laws may be for those things that we "need" but I never knew our ancestors "needed" to own a generator.
And call it what you want, but 1,000,000% is price gouging any way you look at it.
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* What happened to make the punishment fit the crime? These days, people are sacked over the head for more $$$ & prison time for trading a song, than murderers. And that's just wrong! Which is more dangerous, an MP3 or a murderer?
Something don't seem quite right here! Why don't they just duct tape our mouths closed from birth & call communication & education "theft", "Piracy", "Stealing", "Plagiarism", & "Criminal" & send anyone who speaks straight to jail for speaking. After all, it is quite impossible to talk to anyone about anything without repeating something.
And this is what people go to jail for. Repeating what someone else said... I'm waiting for the anti-education law...
We do learn by repetition, you know, & that seems to be a crime.
---> http://www.vanityfai.../monsanto200805 (Farmers are being sued by Monsanto for buying seed from them, growing it, then saving back seed to replant next year. According to Monsanto, this is very criminal & illegal, since farmers are supposed to pay them for EACH crop they have. Saving seeds from the plants you already paid for is illegal, since Monsanto owns the right to the patent, & apparently, the right to make you buy it again & again & again if you want crops. Perhaps this is what causes so many food shortages! How many farmers want to deal with lawsuits, & how many will continue to produce food for us if everything they do is sued?
I never knew that saving seed from your own crop is stealing!
I was just discussing this in my contemporary history class the other day
> Megaupload "infringes" on ~$500,000,000 of content (despite being exempt pursuant to DMCA of 1999 - Safe Harbor - which states that hosts are not liable for their user's content - aside from the fact they were directly profiting, arresting them for that is fine, taking down the site is not)
> Gets destroyed because it benefits the people that give money to campaigning politicians
> Wallstreet cripples the world wide economy, only bearly kept out of the worst depression ever by bailouts
> nothing happens.
It all comes down to money.
So, that leaves the big question?
When big brother does a crime, who investigates them?
After all, there isn't really any need to have laws if they don't obey the same laws they hold us to.
P.S. Ever notice how many times the little guy tries to "settle" because they can't afford to buy the best lawyers? Is this about justice, or do people with money always get away if they buy the right lawyers?