Megaupload has been shut down

[TomcatViP]

The question is what will they do with all the legal stuff user hve uploaded ?

Some don't even hev any backups. Are the USA so broke that the FBI need to do some robbery ? Or did they sent an advice ?

For me it looks like as if the police was ordering a USAF B52 to bomb a highway just to stop a pursuit.

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

OK, so I have a very large and successful shop in any city, in any country. I have thousands of customers and turn a nice profit. I sell mainly legitimate stuff, but some of the stuff I know (or ought to know, it's my shop after all) is stolen. Is that ok?

PPP

It would be good if your analogy worked though given that you say 'stolen' and not 'copied'. I'm not going to dwell on the right and wrong of it all but your post pretty much demonstrates just how little you understand the issue.

Do you work for the RIAA or the MPAA?

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Osprey

It would be good if your analogy worked though given that you say 'stolen' and not 'copied'. I'm not going to dwell on the right and wrong of it all but your post pretty much demonstrates just how little you understand the issue.

Do you work for the RIAA or the MPAA?

yeah, it's a bit of a slippery slope. Some think along the lines of "hey, this is not the original, it's a copy" or "the quality of the file that reproduces the audio track is not exactly as the original", but it's a line of defence that normally works only if you have a lot of money, ordinary people get a "hahaha! Nice try Larry!"..

Then there's the whole thing about intellectual property: it's like the music on Spotify, which is not "all the music in the world" cos certain labels or artists deliberately do not want to be there, so they patch it up with "tribute bands".. how lame is that? And above all, why isn't that infringing intellectual property? Cos I paid a royalty for it?

Good ol' Elvis was right when he used to sing "well it's 1 for the money, 2 for the show"..