[pp.int.general] MegaUpload raided, shut down on request of US authorities

[José Manuel Goig]

El 22/01/2012 09:56, "Christian Hufgard" <pp at christian-hufgard.de> escribió:
>
> On 22.01.2012 09:17, José Manuel Goig wrote:
> > First, let me say that what's legal or illigal is arbitrary. It depends
on
> > the legislator and their interests.
>
> What a great excuse to break any law...
>
> > Second, I have this doubt about Megaupload. Did they load the
copyrighted
> > material themselves or just offered a paid hosting space so users could
> > load whatever they wanted to share? For if it is this second option,
then
> > Google, Dropbox and all the companies that operate in "the cloud" should
> > start to get worry.
>
> They uploaded material by themselves (e.g. grabbed from YouTube), the
> had a streaming site for copyrighted video material and their business
> model was based on uploading copyrighted material by users.

I don't mean that what you say is not true but how do you know? Did you
have access to their logs? Did you see them do it? Did you read it
somewhere?

> > What I see here is a government paid by the big audiovisual corporations
> > that has acted to protect their economic interests. And a government
that
> > is used to menace the rest of the world to get what they want.
> >
> > I think we should focus on that.
>
> Why? Because we want to download hollywood movies for free and call this
> cultural sharing?

Personally I dislike most of Hollywood movies nowadays but copyright
doesn't protect authors, it protects the industry. Do you know what
percentage of profits receive authors? And I don't mean the famous ones.
Almost nothing.

This is an economic attack by the great corporations that want to keep the
monopoly on distribution of culture and get profits from the works of
others, meaning the authors. And I repeat once more: copyright is a mere
excuse.

> > It could have been TPB instead of Megaupload, or another. But the coup
of
> > effect is done. The matter about copyright is just the excuse.
>
> How often do I have to repeat that TPB did not host any copyrighted
> material?

Really, it doesn't matter. Linking is enough for this people to accuse
anyone arbitrarily.

Think about this: should Google be accused and closed because their users
store copyrighted material in their Gmail accounts? Even a photo?
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