Stop Online Piracy Act

so uh, yeah... I guess this is going to be the future of the internet?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

That sort of thing has been happening for a while already, even without these POS bills.

yeah but megaupload does have legitimate users, so burning down the farm just to kill a chicken really is overkill and will put at risk every sort of similar site on the internet should sopa and pipa pass (e: and don't get lulled into a false sense of victory, the bills are still very alive despite losing massive support yesterday)

I'm glad I grabbed my CM9 touchpad rom last night instead of waiting until today

e2: I guess in a way, megaupload getting taken offline should/will become the alpha example of why we don't need SOPA and PIPA

I guess those guys shouldn't have released that Megaupload music video!

That's probably what caused this. Universal was not happy about "its" stars agreeing to appear in that music video. So Universal got its government lackeys to take action.

It's still not going to matter in the long run. These sites are like a hydra: cut off one and you'll get two in its place.

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Originally Posted by cka

yeah but megaupload does have legitimate users...

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But a site that has massive piracy, that courts that piracy to gain users (like, ahem, Youtube early on), but that just happens to get used by a few Linux distros... it's really not legitimate.

RIP Megaupload

You were my favorite uploading site.

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The Hong Kong-based company listed Swizz Beatz, a musician who married Keys in 2010, as its CEO. Beatz declined to comment through a representative.

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wait what

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In addition to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom who was arrested today in New Zealand, another six alleged members of the Mega “conspiracy” were charged in the indictment:

• Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;
• Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;
• Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;
• Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;
• Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;
• Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega websites.

Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by authorities there. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm are still at large.

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Fuck the authorities.

Really, the graphic designer?

What the shit did he do? Create orange and yellow banner ads to entice people into downloading illegal mp3s?

Come on.