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Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files
Ihmhi writes "In the wake of the Megaupload takedown, Filesonic has elected to take preventative measures against a similar fate. The front page and all files now carry the following message: 'All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.' Whether or not this will actually deter the U.S. government from taking action remains to be seen."
If these sites can be shut down with lawsuits now, why do we need SOPA and PIPA?
We don't need SOPA and PIPA as currently written, but we need something. Because not all of these piracy-for-cash operations work out of places where reciprocity (as in New Zealand) is workable.
But you're right about the facade coming down. The whole it's-just-for-Linux-distros bit of Kabuki Theater was getting really ridiculous.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Solution: Make personal encryption and anonymization illegal (or allow it to exist provided that goverment gets all the keys). If you have nothing to hide and whatnot (+ terrorists) ... Plus anonymizers help evil pedos, if you run anon node, you are accessory to child abuse.
That was not so hard.
What next - steganography? Right, it is oh-so-easy to hide 4GB image of dvd movie... ...
Yay for filesharing doing its share of helping to drive war on privacy.
-- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
Pretty sure you could do that without an account. So what were you doing with one?