After Megaupload, MPAA Targets Other File Sharing Services

An anonymous reader writes "It is no secret that the MPAA was a main facilitator of the criminal investigation against Megaupload. While the movie studios have praised the actions of the U.S. Government, they are not satisfied yet. Paramount Pictures' vice president for worldwide content protection identified Fileserve, MediaFire, Wupload, Putlocker and Depositfiles as prime targets that should be shuttered next."

Comments

Thats great news.

[Anonymous Coward]

Breaking the law is breaking the law.. I can't wait for the coming DNS blocks. Finally a software developer or musician wont have to worry about starting a business and getting ripped off by people who want to enjoy his work for free.

Re:Thats great news.

[Anonymous Coward]

Infringing copyright to consume and enjoy material someone else has produced is equivalent to "saving jews"? Dude.. you are fucked up in the head.

Why don't you hire an artist to produce content for you? Then you own it, you can do whatever with it, including sharing it with others for free.

Re:Thats great news.

[Thing 1]

MPAA may be full of shit, but at the same time it's annoying how anti-piracy comments always get robotically modded down in Slashdot. I just think it's good to look objectively at both sides of the coin.

Both sides of WHAT coin? "Anti-piracy" is "anti-sharing". A sane society shares ideas. Copyright was supposed to be a temporary monopoly on the act of copying so that creators (not corporations) could gain some financial benefit before the work entered the public domain, about a generation after it was created. Now, there's no such deal; no work has entered the public domain since 1923, and they are unlikely ever to as long as Disney keeps buying copyright extensions (20 years every 18 years that go by, for the past two such).

An AC compared obeying copyright law to rounding up Jews. That is a bit over the top, but look at the erosion of liberties in the pursuit of one small industry's profits! The other side of that coin is a return to Constitutionality, and there is no compromise when it comes to the supreme law of the land. So, I suppose look at both sides, but choosing the unconstitutional side would not be beneficial to society.

For once the MAFIAA may be right....

[Anonymous Coward]

Americans should not longer tolerate those damn corporations who are (to quote from the MPAA 'fact sheet' mentioned in the article) "All About the Money". Those sorts of corporations should be put out of business immediately, their assets seized, and all their executives and board members rounded up and thrown in jail, with their personal assets confiscated or frozen as well for good measure. I believe Fortune magazine has a convenient list that would make a good starting point...

Re:DMCA safe harbor status

[kamapuaa]

"The "red flag" test stems from the language in the statute that requires that an OSP not be “aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent.” The "red flag" test contains both a subjective and an objective element. Objectively, the OSP must have knowledge that the material resides on its system. Subjectively, the "infringing activity would have been apparent to a reasonable person operating under the same or similar circumstances.""

These services exist for no other reason than to facilitate piracy, and any reasonable person knows this. Therefore, no, the DMCA provision doesn't apply.

I know, I know. "I don't know this! What makes you the judge!" Well fuck you. Yes you do know that these sites exist entirely to facilitate piracy.