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Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-needs-SOPA dept.

zacharye writes "Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down notorious file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged the service's founder with violating piracy laws. The Associated Press broke the story on Thursday, reporting that the indictment accuses Megaupload.com's owner with costing copyright holders including record labels and movie studios more than $500 million in lost revenue."

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  1. Re:Good by future+assassin · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you are of the belief that you lost money from every single pirated copy?

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    by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
  2. Re:Ban the use of faucets! by owlnation · · Score: 1, Troll

    Apples and oranges. The bottled water companies didn't invent water. The media companies did make the media you're pirating.

    No. The media companies did not make the media. They distribute it. This is not the same thing. Continuing the water analogy, they are not the cloud, nor the rain, just merely the plumbing to the fawcet.

    Taking something without paying just because you can is selfish and wrong.

    Tell that to the music industry. Like many, many people, I've done subcontracted work for the music industry. I've never been paid for any of it. I now know better to ever accept any contract from them. And I would urge everyone to do the same. They are thieving scumbags who promise a great deal, and rarely, if ever, pay out. This, is in addition to the many 1000s of artists who have been screwed over in contracts over the decades.

    However much the public out there may "steal" from them, it's peanuts to what they steal from people every single day.