Megaupload has been shut down

[Wolf_Rider]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I'm pretty sure that megaupload (never used it) and other sites like limewire etc all had legal terms and conditons for users to read and aknowlege, how exactly sites are expected to police these things without major intrusions into public privacy and freedom?.........

Its a hard one, eh.... damned, if they do and damned if they don't

it can't very be done to invade privacy in servers or socialise the movie/ record companies, any more than it would be to let capitalism run rampant... people like reward/ notablity for their efforts, so taking an axe to copyright laws wouldn't work too well either.
Running filters in isp's etc would only turn the 'net into the equivalent of a queue in the > insert country here < motor registries.

and yeah... a classic situation of the minority buggering it up for the majority