Megaupload / Video Shutdown, US Arrests

I kinda liked Mega video, asides from the col down period they had, their videos were not plagged by annoying adds, pop ups, and it runned good compared to others

DOES THIS MEAN MEGAPORN IS GONE TOO DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

Yes.


As far as anyone defending Mega, I suggest reading the 72 page indictment.

Same, but I rarely used them because I hate getting into something and then a big screen says:

BUY PACKAGE NOW OR YOU WAIT 72 MINUTES!

That would warrant the arrest for the owners and administration alike, but I still don't see how that enables them to shut down their site as a whole. Is there no tool available to locate and lock the content at large, or is it simply more convenient to pull the whole plug?

I understand you need evidence to build the case up and then be allowed to shut down the site. But it's not exactly a hard task, the site and/or it's users are either committing piracy or they aren't.

You don't have to be a genius to see if a site is committing piracy and breaking copyright, like seriously, the amount of albums that are leaked well before the realease date is uncountable, as well as almost anything can be torrented.

This isn't rocket science, if they wanted to stop piracy, they could of shut down half the sites. Not saying i agree with this since i actually use the internet a lot, but come on, if they have the power to do so (as they already shown they have) then why wouldn't they just get it over and done with since half the piracy crimes are right in THEIR FACE! But as someone said, the timing is no accident, it's part of a bigger plan i geuss?

Only thing I notice is if a company wants megavideo/upload to stop hosting something they can only shut down 1 link.

Or they do a quick search and call it done.

If Toyota was aware that the person driving the car was going to hit the kid and then hit another kid, and another... and did nothing to stop it then we actually would hold them accountable.

Edit: also, Toyota doesn't profit from the driver of the car hitting the kid.

They seized the domain name, but I saw nothing about forcing the shutdown.

yes, this.
jumping back and forth between services was a nice way to go about it tho

What I don't get is I never hear anyone getting busted for distributing copyright content before the release date.

I see/hear plenty of it, but never any actions on the people who do it.

I don't have too many qualms about what happened, because it was a matter of failure to self police and willingly archiving content that has long since been under request of removal from those that contain the rights of intellectual ownership. However, the whole thing is a very precise surgical procedure, while shutting down the whole site seems to be a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel, thus stepping on those that had legitimate use and purposes therein as well.

Mmm... for all of you who go through the tedium of megavideo itself, you might take a look at icefilms.info if megaupload ever comes back. Download an app and use their links and you can watch pretty much anything, sometimes even before it's release. Unfortunately they don't have much in the way of foreign tv/movies beyond England.

It's probobly the company itself that allows the content to be leaked, according to one of my friends who works in show biz anyway.

Well there trying to get their point accross i'd assume. Selecting and going through 50 million users to find culprits committing piracy would take a long time and not have much of a impact as shutting down a whole site. There trying to show they mean buisness, closing a whole site, or as Krizz said, seizing the domain name has a much more bigger and frightful impact than just selecting a few people and still leaving a site like Megaupload to still run.

Never heard of that site >.>

and lol@their statment:

Mega Conspiracy, lol.

I'd like to meet the child who drafted that.

Yes, due process seems to have become rather inconvenient for the process of protecting one's intellectual property. But it hold it's purpose for a good reason. To see it blatantly ignored and the site as a whole shut down still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Why would they do that...lol

<.< that makes no sense at all

Publicity

Leverage.
Leaked material is the least of their concerns if it can be used as a tool to manipulate higher authority to act in their interests for future and greater ambitions. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but really it's a logical and smart course of action to carry out their ends.

That's what I was talking about on page... 2 I think. Really worked better than anything else out there, and still does to a very small extent with zshare files instead of MU files.

As for MU coming back, it doesn't seem likely but it's possible.

Idk, I don't usually watch movies twice unless they are that well made. I usually know beforehand though and go see it in theaters and buy the dvd (bluray).

Pretty much this, they plan everything. Even if material is leaked, it can still work to their likings. Someone watching a movie may like it and recomend it to the family to go and watch at the cinema. But overall, Artemicion got it spot on.

That's one thing that's always puzzled me.
Movies are a huge cash cow in both box office and subsequent media format releases. However, the nature of films themselves tend to lack a sort of replay and thus monetary value after all is said and done. Even further expansions of merchandise such as clothing and toys will be nothing more than a pillow after the movie has had it's time in the limelight.
True success in a film IMO is one that is one that retains a timeless presence and mention well after it's release.

But I suppose financial success is not the same as sentimental success. Apocalypse Now will be forever a timeless title to me but will never measure up to the legacy of money Avatar reeled in despite being a mediocre film at best.

Ohhhhhhh okay gotcha

I really only care about one thing when I see a movie

Do I want to see this again?

If I don't I kinda felt that I wasted my money, unless it's just on that line of no I'm not going to likely want to see it again but it was decent.

Paranormal Activity is all i gotta say. This film has cashed in soo much money it's unreal. The sequals are pretty much mimics of the first one with fresh new ideas and scenes just replaying the same ghostly features.

When you can cash in 500 million dollars/euros/pounds by making a simple film that allows further films to be made, you won't be focussing on making it memorable. After all, it's all about money to them.

I love Avatar :(

but don't start that debate... ._.

eh... they are okay. Interesting... but nothing really is ever scary lol >.>