tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post1414854816324900640..comments2024-03-28T02:13:20.178-04:00Comments on Southwest Florida Online News: Why File Share Site Megaupload Was Shut DownDon Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03406935288146655615noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-50649599048194789782012-01-22T20:31:14.494-05:002012-01-22T20:31:14.494-05:00People use these sites (at least those that pay) b...People use these sites (at least those that pay) because it is like one stop shopping. The most bang for your buck so to speak. If the media industry could just let go of the old antiquated system of content distribution and purchase on a per item basis we might get somewhere. It's easy. Have levels of service with throughput caps or DL caps. $250/year gets you unlimited access to any content you want. Your consumption gets tracked and royalties distributed accordingly. The more something is accessed the more it earns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-52179074973316060112012-01-21T12:59:21.253-05:002012-01-21T12:59:21.253-05:00That's sad...since it's all BS...SOPA/PIPA...That's sad...since it's all BS...SOPA/PIPA were junk + MU arrest was unfair + I don't think swizz he has any legal connections to MU...imo it was all fabbed up to get other celebrity endorsements.<br /> <br />p.s. looks like someone is pissed - FBI vs ANONYMOUS video:<br />http://www.peeje.com/anonymous-hackers-we-legion-211/Austin Hoffmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-87463444705370641792012-01-20T14:50:13.912-05:002012-01-20T14:50:13.912-05:00Why not target US equivalents of Megaupload? This...Why not target US equivalents of Megaupload? This is obviously big bucks in membership income alone and one has to question the motives behind this move. If the US only takes down foreign sites, then it is about economic reasons more then anything else.<br /><br />Imho sharing files is part of freedom of speech, and it is not up to those who share and use to make a move. It is up to the industry to come up with technology that prevents anything being copied illegaly. And thinking along those lines, why not shut down companies who build mass storage devises like hard drives, or writable cd's/dvd's? These allow for such files to be stored, thus these companies are enablers and a huge part of the problem. Or am I seeing this wrong? Is this maybe why they invented cloud based solutions, so you would depend on others for your own info, probably the same people who can take it down. I.E. Google (amongst others) scans e-mails and everything else you feed it, why should this not be so with your company data? Knowledge is power, and companies like Google keeps scraping for more. Anyway, I'm drifting away from the matter at hand here...<br /><br />The question now is, will other filesharing sites be next? If so, who will it be; rapidshare, depositfiles, fileserve, filesonic, filejungle, bitshare, etc... ??? To maintain its credibility, will the FBI take down a US based company next? Or are they above the law, or perhaps protected by US law from such matters, unlike foreign companies.<br /><br />Looking forward to their next move.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-24706102980070281392012-01-20T12:22:41.139-05:002012-01-20T12:22:41.139-05:00Follow the money....
Megaupload allegedly receiv...Follow the money.... <br /><br />Megaupload allegedly receives "proceeds" in total to the tune of around 175 million dollars. If that were profits I'm sure they would say so. So assuming that is revenue, then subtract 50 million for all the equipment, maybe another million for all those company cars, plus the running costs and bandwidth fees for 4% of internet traffic (you can't hosts servers for free!) and what? maybe there's a few million each for the indictees left over?<br /><br /><br />Cost of one movie, Spiderman2, 200 million dollars.<br /><br /><br />2004 revenues of the big six studios: 36 BILLION dollars.<br /><br /><br />Estimate of alleged harm caused by Megaupload: 500 million dollars. (And this is assuming of course that all illegal downloads would be replaced by a legal purchase if the download option were not available - BIG and false assumption!)<br /><br /><br />So by stopping Megaupload (and assuming nothing else will rise to take its place - BIG and false assumption!) the copyright manipulators hope for a 1.3% increase in revenue? <br /><br /><br />Cost of a 2 year investigation in 8 countries? Cost of extraditions? Cost of running a trial of some 20 people? "Biggest copyright case in history" sounds like MEGAbucks to me.... :)<br /><br /><br />Priorities anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-60940375944244557482012-01-20T08:50:56.228-05:002012-01-20T08:50:56.228-05:00Dont give a crap, people get paid too much for the...Dont give a crap, people get paid too much for there work and we pay to much to buy something that is worth 2 bucks. Maybe when everyone is jobless people might realize that money means nothing... rich can go to hellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999078.post-82010996766082961202012-01-20T08:29:42.324-05:002012-01-20T08:29:42.324-05:00America - world police - kills cloud hosting :¬(
...America - world police - kills cloud hosting :¬(<br /><br />In America the land of corrupt corporate power , the MPAA & RIAA paid for this action against Megaupload. <br />Then America bullied other countries to support their actions.<br /><br />Sopa / Pipa and all the other corporate based profit machines like war and healtchcare/drugs, are pushed onto the whole world via corrupt American politicians.<br /><br /><br />Next up Blogspot... <br />( Profit V people telling facts )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com