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Feds shut down file-sharing website Megaupload.com (now fileserve and filesonic too)
January 19, 2012 at
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Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.
The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/20...z1jwEqE8IO
The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/20...z1jwEqE8IO
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This is nothing like prohibition.
If jurisdiction is claimed because offending servers are located in the US, then the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Amendments should apply.
Unless, of course, the imperial federal government thinks those pesky amendments just get in the way.
I'm all for it, personally. Give the imperial federal government a taste of its own medicine.
In one breath you want due process, but in the other you are ok with Anon retaliating half cocked in the same manner?
Think, soon it will be easy to get any file sharing of any sort shut down. All you would have to do is upload something that shouldn't be there.
I'm sure most of the stuff on google music and amazon music are copyrighted materials that people download from various sources and upload to there. Why aren't the government shutting those down?
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I'm sure most of the stuff on google music and amazon music are copyrighted materials that people download from various sources and upload to there. Why aren't the government shutting those down?
P.S. I love ironic usernames. Used to know a really big guy, we called him tiny.
If you have some stuff that need to be downloaded, download it now. Before other websites are closed down also.
Link to the article. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3...l-defense/
This is just a heads up.
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