Just to let you guys know MegaUpload was shutdown yesterday by the US Authorities and in response to this Anonymous attacked Department of Justice, the FBI and Universal Music Group. Here are some links;
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-th ... -40094867/
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-th ... -40094727/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... raids.html
and there twitter response https://twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews/sta ... 8917757952

Good for Anonymous! shame the fbi and justice dept sites are still up, but yeah.. fuck universal... massive money grabbing twats,..

and shame about mega upload, why the fuck do companies not learn from the whole Napster thing and instead of suing and arresting people, they take a step back and actually see what makes these models and systems so popular.

Personally, I have no issue with people downloading copyrighted material, and I don't see why anyone else should, their is no evidence that in affects lost sales, and this has been shown to be the case in many recent examples, in addition to studies that have been carried out before on piracy and declining cd sales, some which showed some evidence but none of those studies used actual file sharing data.

To also quote the big man;

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Very true what Gaben said there. Big budget media producers have always been greedy, and now that people don't have to tolerate their greed they're all in a big huff spewing money in every direction. Fucking MPAA aswell, they can go fuck, monopolising the rating system, they are literally that image of pigs eating money out of a trough.

Personally I avoid pirating thesedays, mainly because my university will without warning disable my user account, and internet access meaning it will screw the course up for me. Besides that though I will buy things, my favourite trojan compilations that are usually on sale, or Tarantino films, and well that's because I always value the things I buy, and keep on a shelf, more so than a jumbled playlist of downloads. When my vinyl player was working. I'd play my same few vinyls over and over, if I had them on my phones mp3 I would have just took them for granted, and not played them much at all, I had to write a big old dissertation concerning new media, but one of the points I mentioned we took the romance out of our cherished media by having almost an abundance of it.

They're going to win though, controlling online content, we're on a slippery slope, it could take anything from 20-50 years perhaps more, but they'll get it. They'll be blocking sites, calling for censorship and all sorts, they will be relentless until they can scoff every penny they feel they've been cheated out of.

I still buy stuff if it's good, but I going to download a piece of shit I would have never spent money on in the first place, so technically where is the loss? lol

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mm like 2012, that was apalling, wouldn't have bought it anyway but I had no idea it would be so terrible.

Nobody pirates books we're all unread digital-age copyright-spittin heathens

yeah and you got a great example being the leaked wolverine movie, which was an incomplete cut without the CGI and that was one of the most downloaded films of that year (and the various film piracy bodies and studios were up in arms and wanted blood) but also went on to make 125m or something in the box office...

the guy who uploaded it got 2 years I think... the studios got free marketing and publicity, and 125m... also no one seemed to bother thinking how that film got out of the editing bay... did that guy lose his job?! did that come up in the news... i doubt it... because that would just show how feeble and dim witted they are.

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This is why the music industry is also failing, not only are they only signing manufactured pop acts, but they refuse to adapt to the way things are going.
Gabe has the right idea with a valid reason behind it. ^^

The way I see it, If you download an album and like it enough, you go see the band live or purchase something from them. It's almost like a trailer for a film. Artists do not make much from album sales anyway after you take away all the costs and fees.

Another reason that album sales have gone down is because single sales have gone up like crazy compared to 5 years ago. It's like a packet of crisps. You buy a pack get some crisps (which would be the single) and you get the filler/air inside taking up most of the packet ( that would be the rest of the songs) ^^

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they got kimble for now

I think one of the reasons they're manafacturing bad musicians is something to do the way we consume music. Before you'd have to save up for the records, and you'd really get into the artist, their quality stuff, try and catch them doing a gig. So many people have carried their music from youth to their graves, really appreciated it. Now today people go through songs like condoms because of new media, the music industry is just pumping out terrible mediocre stuff which will sell before consumers move onto the next thing, and then it wont matter or exist. I mean can you really see Lady Gaga or some group like the Sugar Pussies having compilation albums on mass sale in 30-50 years time? Nope, not a chance, tomorrow's youth wont be picking up todays rubbish, like we would with perhaps The Kinks, The Clash, Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley and there's a good chance that this generation wont remember what they use to listen to.

So yeah I mean that's what I think is happening, it's a series of samey quirky stuff they're just throwing out there for short glory, for money. People are only going to forget about it anyway, so it's produced as if it were an assembly line for disposable products.

That is literally the jist of my dissertation at uni

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Relevant

>9gag
Stopped reading there

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buttt not at 4chan?

so all these porn threads I spent hours on end to find are now worth squat. I now see what people are getting at

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slurper

Why? Did the words get too difficult?

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Anonymous! Anonymous is coming!

Well, I agree with all that's been said, with piracy being a service problem and stuff.

On the other hand the megaupload people were greedy bastards, paying people to upload illegal stuff. I guess I am kinda ok with sites being taken down whose founders encourage people to pirate stuff in order for them to profit from the illegal stuff. (e.g. Kimdotcom)
If it's a normal filehoster, that I think it's a bad approach.

Famous internet musician Jonathan Coulton also wrote a nice post that's definately worth a read. He wrote it after a twitter comment sparked a discussion: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

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haha somehow it's just the germans being happy that kimble failed

I think people will buy things, it's just that we haven't yet been given a business model for film and music that caters properly and in a better way than downloading something illegally.

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[*]Megaupload Closed – Owner get Jailed

[*]Wupload is smart early closed its "Affiliate Program"

[*]Fileserve removed it’s affiliate page, because USA/FBI thinks that a legal part of their TOS is not enough to protect them, where users are responsible for their own content, and not filehost itself. Also, their thread disappeared from WJunction.

[*]FileJungle Deleting Massive Files and still not paying its affiliates (Same Owner of Fileserve)

[*]Uploadstation same owner of Fileserve and same as Filejungle

[*]Filesonic closes it’s affiliate program (You can no longer download files unless you own them)

[*]Filepost started suspending accounts with infringing material and not yet paying members

[*]Uploaded.to not available in U.S. anymore Banned US IP

[*]Videozer – No affiliate/make money page

[*]EnterUpload Redirecting to Luxury.Net

However, the world’s second largest file sharing website Rapishare said in a recent interview that “File hosting itself is a legitimate business.” and that “We’re not concerned or scared about the raid”. So far, SendSpace and MediaFire haven’t made any move regarding this matter either



Future : You cant share files - only your own non.copyrighted shit...We will see loads of cloud services soon such as Apple´s cloud etc.
So it back to seedbox and private trackers

My private little place gets me everything i need :3

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

+1 for storing files as ASCII in Google's Cache.

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I have the urge to download everything before its too late.

>buttt
thought about ass-tea there

9gag is just horrible. ok 4 chan is bad, but at least u get original stuff there. 9gag is just 2 year old crap that gets reposted and/or made worse.
yes
???

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>newfag can't greentext