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  1. #81
    Quote Originally Posted by Tharkash View Post
    You all do realize that the charges against MegaUpload are baseless and the guy is just going to get off and move to a country that doesn't have extradition and start over right?
    The charges are baseless? They were paying people who uploaded large amounts of materials, including copyrighted movies, music, and software. Megaupload was preserving these files, even when they were reported.

    Those are not baseless charges. Megaupload was directly contributing to copyright infringement.


    Edit: And let's be honest here: How many of you have used Megaupload or any other similar storage site for storing/sharing non-copyrighted material (basically, non-movie, music, game)? The only things I've ever used them for are sending music to my friends and downloading porn. In fact, I cannot remember ever seeing someone using those sites legitimately.
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  2. #82
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    Is this the end of DD as we have used them? I think it is. I suppose we'll have to go back and use the "slightly more ethical" P2P.

    Edit: Wasn't he arrested for avoiding taxes or something like that?
    Last edited by mmoc7d1a31b628; 2012-01-23 at 04:04 PM. Reason: additional info

  3. #83
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    This is so fucking stupid.

  4. #84
    Why don't you guys use torrents?
    Why am I back here, I don't even play these games anymore

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  5. #85
    So if they didn't need the bills, why did they present them?
    "If you want to control people, if you want to feed them a pack of lies and dominate them, keep them ignorant. For me, literacy means freedom." - LaVar Burton.

  6. #86
    Quote Originally Posted by YoggZaron View Post
    What on earth is going on guys? Filesonic has taken down its files sharing capabilities. I renewed my premium account just yesterday and right now i'm mad as Bill O'Reilly. Would you guys think they would refund my money? After all they took it down without warning
    What on earth is going on guys?

    Thieves are being put out of business?

  7. #87
    Omg am I a thief for breathing the air, I mean I didn't pay the plants for producing it, but its just out there.
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    I'm calling it, Republicans will hold congress in 2018 and Trump will win again in 2020.

  8. #88
    Quote Originally Posted by moogogaipan View Post
    So if they didn't need the bills, why did they present them?
    Because the bills would have made it easier to do what they are doing now. They have been monitoring all these sites for years now gathering evidence to finally do what they are doing today. That's what people don't understand... It isn't SOPA or PIPA it's the fact that pirating copywritten content is still illegal.

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    My boyfriend is a huge computer geek. What he does is records movies and or TV shows with fraps or something of the like, and then renders it all on his work computer and transfers them over to a separate hard drive. He has bound to have well over six thousand terabytes, and yes, he tracks them all in alphabetical order as if they were a DvD collection. He does the same thing with games too.
    The cat is out of the bag.

  10. #90
    Quote Originally Posted by Gamdwelf View Post
    I better go and download the entirety of Mediafire tonight, before its gone.
    I was thinking the same thing. Gotta download as many porn as possible while it last

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    Quote Originally Posted by vizzle View Post
    Why don't you guys use torrents?
    I would use torrent if it wasn't for my ISP throttling torrent speed. Seriously sometimes torrent with good seedings still gives only 5kb speed :/

  11. #91
    Funny how world governments can work together to stop file sharing but can't for anything else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buryit View Post
    What on earth is going on guys?

    Thieves are being put out of business?

    Oh noes, I can't pirate anymore free stuff.

    I don't see the dramatic sense of urgency. It's not hard buying netflix or any other online-service.

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    Just been reading the ACTA proposal and this caught my eye.

    "Where the infringer did not knowingly, or with reasonable grounds knows, engage in infringing activity, each party may lay down that the judicial authorities may order the recovery of profits or payment of damages"

    Would that mean e.g. youtube would be fined/sued if someone puts copyright material on there?

  14. #94
    My concerns aren't short-sighted, the bulk of these websites have clearly impacted sales of numerous pieces of software, Rapidshare for YEARS was used for game downloads and application downloads (like Photoshop, etc). This was bound to happen, it will continue to happen and it deserves to happen, these websites knowingly allow content on their websites and do nothing about it and now something is being done about it. Off the top of my head Megaupload was used to distribute copyrighted music, copyrighted movies, copyrighted software, copyrighted TV Shows and numerous other adult rated content. And it's not like this is one file here and there, the bulk of the files transferred on Megaupload fall into the copyrighted material(s) I mentioned previously. For anyone that can think intelligently the only possible outcome for Megaupload was their closure or extreme moderation.

    Next up let's shut down Justin.tv's Entertainment section, hundreds of channels streaming copyrighted material with advertisements making Justin.tv money. If you deliver copyrighted material to people, you will be shut down... eventually.
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  15. #95
    Quote Originally Posted by Astera View Post
    Just been reading the ACTA proposal and this caught my eye.

    "Where the infringer did not knowingly, or with reasonable grounds knows, engage in infringing activity, each party may lay down that the judicial authorities may order the recovery of profits or payment of damages"

    Would that mean e.g. youtube would be fined/sued if someone puts copyright material on there?
    Youtube gets around the problem of copyrighted materials by paying the owners for being allowed to host it. Those that don't sign on with that deal have their materials filtered either upon upload or upon being reported. Either way, Youtube is doing plenty to keep unauthorized copyrighted materials off of their site.
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    It is either a witchhunt (from the side of the goverments) or a political maneuver by these internet hosting-companies to get people to protest agaist SOPA and stuff alike

  17. #97
    I am not bothered by this. People are seriously misunderstanding what was wrong with SOPA. It wasn't that SOPA would close down websites like this - which the law, very obviously, already allows many governments around the world to do - it's that it would allow companies to close down innocent websites that were completely unrelated to piracy.

    Closing down havens of piracy that anybody can easily access by typing a search into google is a perfectly legal thing to do, and I've got trouble seeing anything actually wrong with it. Even if you actively pirate software and files, there's not really any moral highground to take here. A thief doesn't go into a store, steal something, and then tell the judge that they're innocent because it was too expensive, and therefor they had to steal it. Well, they could tell a judge that, but that would be stupid.
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    The only thing I see wrong with what's going on, is there should be a due processes before websites are shut down.

    If a website is willingly torrenting pirated material, I can't support it.

    I was against SOPA/PIPA because they went too far, not because I support piracy. The artists who create this stuff, deserve the royalties off their product. Not all artists are people like Elton John or Tom Hanks who have millions of millions. Indy developers, small time singers, deviantArt artists who sell prints, they lose out bigtime if their stuff gets pirated.

    With that said however, torrent sites do need to be informed so they can take action to stop the piracy before the government steps in to do it for them.
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  19. #99
    Psh, I'm surprised they aren't targeting Youtube. 90% of it would have to be deleted.

  20. #100
    Namco Bandai is officially stopping all english ported anime, i don't watch much anime but they make alot of animes, and they are doing so because they are losing alot of money from it. If you are a pirate if this was to continue you could start seeing the games you actually enjoy going away because people pirate them, people try to make an excuse saying piracy has no real impact on the companies money, but it really does.
    Namco Bandai was a fool for ever starting English-ported anime. There simply isn't a market for it, and the voice-overs are absolutely horrible. It's impossible to spread this anime successfully in the EU and US, because most people view anima as 'Oh; cartoons. Cartoons are for kids.' And let's be honest: Most anime is incredibly childish as well as quite perverted for our standards. There's a cultural difference that's not that easy to just wave away. Anime enthusiasts will rather stream a fan-sub Japanese anime than buy an English spoken one, because... Well; the voice-overs are, as I said before, generally absolutely horrible, and just don't make sense because a lot is lost in the translation that you can still pick up with a less than primary-school level understanding of the Japanese language.

    In short: Piracy wasn't the problem... Piracy was the solution to the problem.
    So yes; quitting the whole English Anime thing was a jolly good idea; hardly anyone wanted it in the first place.

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