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RIAA comments on the death of Megaupload
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 25 January, 2012
Last week, the U.S. government shut down Megaupload.com, one of the largest and longest running cyberlockers in the business. Its founders, Kim Dotcom and a handful of employees were also arrested, charged with copyright infringement.
Megaupload and its owners are accused of taking over $500 million from copyright holders due to piracy, and cashing in on $175 million in profits from ... [ read the full article ]
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25. January 2012 @ 20:12 |
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Shutting down a file sharing site because some people use it for piracy is like shutting down a street because some people use it for smuggling...the smugglers just use other routes and the only people who are hurt are the legitimate users...and in this case, they are also prosecuting the local DOT for keeping the road in good condition.
If RIAA considers their products to be so terrible that stopping their distribution needs measures far greater than those used to stop the distribution of hard drugs, then I'll be sure not to "traffic" any of these terrible products from the store to my home.
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nbfreak2
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25. January 2012 @ 20:28 |
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OO yes we will all be going legit now!?LOl
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scorpNZ
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25. January 2012 @ 21:06 |
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Does anyone know where this chart is that the RIAA is talking about & can neilson be a trusted source & is there any other market research done that can backup the claims,i would want to see more proof before i conceed that shutting down sites works
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Mysttic
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25. January 2012 @ 21:54 |
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clap clap clap... seriously why can't they just disband the RIAA already
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25. January 2012 @ 23:30 |
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that's too simplistic observation by RIAA. if they think shutting down megaupload will lead all free downloaders to go legal, that's far from the truth. what about rapidshare, and the countless other download sites, not mentioning torrents. they just focused on megaupload so megabox won't push thru. search megabox to know more about it.
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scorpNZ
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25. January 2012 @ 23:34 |
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This was in reply to mystic
Because the Exec's want to be paid enough for the lifestyle they've become accustomed to,the artists sure as hell ain't getting anything,it's true for every $1000.00 earned the artist gets a measly $80 while the collection agency responsible for distributing the money collected gets $385.00,this is after all expenses paid,hence a class action lawsuit being filed by an artists who's name escapes me.
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26. January 2012 @ 01:44 |
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Originally posted by scorpNZ:
Does anyone know where this chart is that the RIAA is talking about & can neilson be a trusted source & is there any other market research done that can backup the claims,i would want to see more proof before i conceed that shutting down sites works[/quote
i dont think neilson has ever been a trusted source of anything.at least not in recent times.if thats all riaa has then they really have their heads buried up their asses.
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26. January 2012 @ 06:59 |
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Is it fair to say that the debate about SOPA and PIPA were merely "show trials?" It's obvious that this didn't or wouldn't even get to a vote, its been enacted. Another big f*ck you from our "public servants."
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26. January 2012 @ 11:45 |
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Solution to the problem of Anti-freedom congressman DO NOT ELECT REPUBLICANS!! no more with the exception of RON PAUL elect ron paul as president! the Elliot Ness of politics
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hearme0
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26. January 2012 @ 14:46 |
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They reference to Spotify. Personally, I feel that services like Spotify and Pandora, while kinda neat in their own way, are garbage. I listen to what I WANT WHEN I WANT.......not what someone else wants me to and when they want me to.
Besides, Spotify is free isn't it??? Except for the premium parts of course. I just can't see someone sitting back and saying........"damn, Megaupload shutdown. Well.....I guess I'll go look for music I can PAY FOR"........as opposed to "Damn, Megaupload shutdown. Better find another source of free, DRM free, quality content."
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hearme0
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26. January 2012 @ 14:50 |
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Originally posted by SuikoNiNjitZu:
Solution to the problem of Anti-freedom congressman DO NOT ELECT REPUBLICANS!! no more with the exception of RON PAUL elect ron paul as president! the Elliot Ness of politics
Oh GOD....not another one of you!
My "bad-decision making" best friend likes Ron Paul simply because of his outlook on marijuana. Get a life!!!! First you say "DO NOT ELECT REPUBLICANS" then you say "exception of Ron Paul" because of one or two ideas he's passed along to gain the acceptance of non-thinking younger tards who can't make informed decisions about ANYTHING..........much less the complexity of politics.
You have definitively shown yourself incapable of making a good decision and therefore, your voting privileges should be revoked. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you should be banned from having children and your driver's license should be taken away too.
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26. January 2012 @ 15:46 |
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Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by SuikoNiNjitZu:
Solution to the problem of Anti-freedom congressman DO NOT ELECT REPUBLICANS!! no more with the exception of RON PAUL elect ron paul as president! the Elliot Ness of politics
Oh GOD....not another one of you!
My "bad-decision making" best friend likes Ron Paul simply because of his outlook on marijuana. Get a life!!!! First you say "DO NOT ELECT REPUBLICANS" then you say "exception of Ron Paul" because of one or two ideas he's passed along to gain the acceptance of non-thinking younger tards who can't make informed decisions about ANYTHING..........much less the complexity of politics.
You have definitively shown yourself incapable of making a good decision and therefore, your voting privileges should be revoked. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you should be banned from having children and your driver's license should be taken away too.
Who will you vote for Mitt or Newt? Not much of a choice is there?
People who vote along party lines are nutty as a fruitcake, that's why I am an Indie.
I suggest you look into Ron Paul. He makes sense not stories.
Most likely it will be Newt or Mitt. This will assure the reelection of Obama.
If Paul doesn't make it I will vote for Obama.
Another lost right wing Pub...... It makes Baby Jebus cry.
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26. January 2012 @ 16:03 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Shutting down a file sharing site because some people use it for piracy is like shutting down a street because some people use it for smuggling...the smugglers just use other routes and the only people who are hurt are the legitimate users...and in this case, they are also prosecuting the local DOT for keeping the road in good condition.
If RIAA considers their products to be so terrible that stopping their distribution needs measures far greater than those used to stop the distribution of hard drugs, then I'll be sure not to "traffic" any of these terrible products from the store to my home.
It's also like saying they shut down a highway to stop drag racing.
Th other facts to this turd hunt is that they want unsuspecting individuals to turn to their 'already established' legally ambiguous means of downloading entertainment/software. Seeing as they already control the medium, why shouldn't they continue to enslave the money attached to it?
Like the racing on the highways, who do you think finances the contracts for road repairs?
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26. January 2012 @ 16:19 |
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feds are stupid... frostwire same thing but still up and running haha
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Naferion
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26. January 2012 @ 17:42 |
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All of this is over the illusion that it's protecting artists or movie makers or such, hence why the corporations are allowed to do this, but at least on the music making front, i found this awhile ago on my adventures on the web, check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcwgdB0N...player_embedded
and on another front, are they going to shut down you tube? most songs i can think of i can you tube in 5 seconds or less and hear them any time i want to, and in this age, who doesn't have some sort of net connection? the only difference between you tube bookmarking and having a mp3 file is about 2.5mb of guilty. a very good portion of people who play music do so off their computer nowdays, make a you tube playlist and there ya go, hell, you can even you tube each song of an album and line them all up and boom, what new record you want to hear?
bottom line, they want another excuse to take your money.
ok im done
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xtago
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26. January 2012 @ 22:26 |
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Originally posted by Naferion:
and on another front, are they going to shut down you tube? most songs i can think of i can you tube in 5 seconds or less and hear them any time i want to, and in this age, who doesn't have some sort of net connection? the only difference between you tube bookmarking and having a mp3 file is about 2.5mb of guilty. a very good portion of people who play music do so off their computer nowdays, make a you tube playlist and there ya go, hell, you can even you tube each song of an album and line them all up and boom, what new record you want to hear?
bottom line, they want another excuse to take your money.
ok im done
They have tried a couple of times same with some other video sites as well.
The difference is Goggle while it paid for youtube and took over, when the court cases rolled up they paid the fines plus also paid for any lic requirements to allow music to be on there.
That is why they don't get sued anymore but the music companies can still sue owners of the videos as they won't have lic to upload the music.
Overall though, Megaupload is probably has it's servers in the USA, while others don't.
So the US cops are able to walk in and actually pull the plug on a server rack, the owner got picked up in New Zealand as they have just joined up to interpol and done some treaties with the US gov part of which is changing stuff to be like the US laws.
So that's why people can still be sued for US laws in other countries.
The police forces are far far more interlinked than people think, just because your in another country means nothing these days, the only real benefit is they have to screw around trying to get you sent over etc and that comes down to laws in the country your arrested in.
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27. January 2012 @ 09:59 |
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Originally posted by hearme0:
Originally posted by SuikoNiNjitZu:
Solution to the problem of Anti-freedom congressman DO NOT ELECT REPUBLICANS!! no more with the exception of RON PAUL elect ron paul as president! the Elliot Ness of politics
Oh GOD....not another one of you!
My "bad-decision making" best friend likes Ron Paul simply because of his outlook on marijuana. Get a life!!!! First you say "DO NOT ELECT REPUBLICANS" then you say "exception of Ron Paul" because of one or two ideas he's passed along to gain the acceptance of non-thinking younger tards who can't make informed decisions about ANYTHING..........much less the complexity of politics.
You have definitively shown yourself incapable of making a good decision and therefore, your voting privileges should be revoked. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you should be banned from having children and your driver's license should be taken away too.
Troll.
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27. January 2012 @ 11:23 |
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What now ? You mean nerdy little sterile boys sitting in their dorm rooms and parents basements every where can't download free movies and music any more ? Oh what a shame !!! You mean they need to get a life and a job now finally and pay for their entertainment like every one else does ? And further not waste their life and all their precious time on downloading everything for free just because they can ? Instead they need to actually try to use their time more wisely and get a second job maybe ? So they can pay off some bills or work on a real constructive hobby ? Like maybe even go outdoors for once and like get some fresh air ? You mean go outside in real life and smell the flowers ? And maybe even see the sun for once shining down on their pasty white albino skin ? You mean for once in their miserable lives they need to now actually pay for things instead of getting everything for free in their life ? Oh boo' hoo', it makes me really want to cry and wimper for their poor souls....Not !!!
Get a life people and stop wasting all your time downloading illegally, text messaging, and Facebooking your life away' !!
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27. January 2012 @ 14:04 |
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double troll?
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27. January 2012 @ 14:30 |
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I had a cleverly drawn out scenario about spoofing his mac address, using it to download a couple of movies from a known 'watched' site; all the while that was going on, I would use a bit of my military training to sneak from out of hiding & embellish some derogatory story involving mothers & ending with more military training as I crawled out a window satiated & $20 richer as the FBI came to collect him as the supposed perpetrator of copyright infringement --- but then what good would all that prove?
It still does little to disprove that the alphabet Nazi's are a bunch of blow hard douche bags that have won one this round.
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27. January 2012 @ 15:46 |
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Originally posted by Scaldari:
double troll?
Are you refering to you Troll ?
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27. January 2012 @ 15:57 |
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Originally posted by aarowsmith:
What now ? You mean nerdy little sterile boys sitting in their dorm rooms and parents basements every where can't download free movies and music any more ? Oh what a shame !!! You mean they need to get a life and a job now finally and pay for their entertainment like every one else does ? And further not waste their life and all their precious time on downloading everything for free just because they can ? Instead they need to actually try to use their time more wisely and get a second job maybe ? So they can pay off some bills or work on a real constructive hobby ? Like maybe even go outdoors for once and like get some fresh air ? You mean go outside in real life and smell the flowers ? And maybe even see the sun for once shining down on their pasty white albino skin ? You mean for once in their miserable lives they need to now actually pay for things instead of getting everything for free in their life ? Oh boo' hoo', it makes me really want to cry and wimper for their poor souls....Not !!!
Get a life people and stop wasting all your time downloading illegally, text messaging, and Facebooking your life away' !!
and yet here you are.
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aarowsmith
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27. January 2012 @ 16:09 |
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Originally qouted by aldan:
and yet here you are.
Yes here you are qouting me with no original thought process in your mind, try something new like typing something with your own words and thoughts and opinions. Last time I checked it is a free country. Are you Trolling me and why ? Get your own damn words and opinions. Move along lemming troll.......
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27. January 2012 @ 16:31 |
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Originally posted by jahnarisha:
that's too simplistic observation by RIAA. if they think shutting down megaupload will lead all free downloaders to go legal, that's far from the truth. what about rapidshare, and the countless other download sites, not mentioning torrents. they just focused on megaupload so megabox won't push thru. search megabox to know more about it.
That is a very naive additude!
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Mez
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27. January 2012 @ 16:36 |
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Originally posted by aarowsmith:
What now ? You mean nerdy little sterile boys sitting in their dorm rooms and parents basements every where can't download free movies and music any more ? Oh what a shame !!! You mean they need to get a life and a job now finally and pay for their entertainment like every one else does ? And further not waste their life and all their precious time on downloading everything for free just because they can ? Instead they need to actually try to use their time more wisely and get a second job maybe ? So they can pay off some bills or work on a real constructive hobby ? Like maybe even go outdoors for once and like get some fresh air ? You mean go outside in real life and smell the flowers ? And maybe even see the sun for once shining down on their pasty white albino skin ? You mean for once in their miserable lives they need to now actually pay for things instead of getting everything for free in their life ? Oh boo' hoo', it makes me really want to cry and wimper for their poor souls....Not !!!
Get a life people and stop wasting all your time downloading illegally, text messaging, and Facebooking your life away' !!
You are making some strong statements about persons you don't know and are very likely to be wrong about more than half of them. I would not get so carried away on a global stage.
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