Quote Originally Posted by Penis シ View Post
Bloated figures, YES, false claims, YES, bad methods, YES.

But let's be clear. They WERE stealing intellectual property from people, regardless of where those people are from. And made MILLIONS doing it. I think they should treat the people at megaupload like they treat people when they find them peddling burned dvd's.

Now, the opinion that copying is not stealing is something I FIRMLY believe in private, however, on a large scale and at a charge, this IS stealing. You make money by having people subscribe to your website, the advertisements posted by directing LARGE amounts of people to said website and then even Google makes money off it.

Now I'm not saying that it is America's place to shut down websites that host Copyrighted material, however, these weren't Bollywood movies, they were Hollywood movies from Hollywood, USA. While one reaction is to step ahead of the game and stop the movie theater madness, and streamline their products to the masses, they don't HAVE to. It is perfectly within their legal right to go after a company EVEN IF FOREIGN if they steal American copyright property AND host themselves within the US. So, in short, YES, I think it is perfectly acceptable that they used existing laws to take down a large-scale operation that primarily housed American content with SOME of the business being hosted in America.


I also don't want to get flamed, so I'll say right off that SOPA and PIPA are terrible terrible bills, but they have the right idea. Not that they have a great method, but that they need to step in to either encourage Hollywood to start doing it right or discourage piracy on the large scale.
Mega upload has not stolen an ounce of intellectual property... they get paid by users to use there website to upload stolen intellectual property, there is a huge difference. Im not going to bash on you for hinting at supporting sopa and pipa, ill just explain to you in short something you clearly don't understand. Most people who pirate, pirate to try it, watch it, listen to it then go on to purchase it. the people who are hell bent on getting something for free with out any cost will be the people that find alternatives to getting it. there is no stopping it and the last thing we want as a country at this givin time to to create this type of censorship/foreign policy. Ruining businesses around the world because come CEO thinks they may have posted a link infringing on there copyright policy is a horrible thing to allow, it wont just create a dull, less creative and innovative internet.. it will create political conflict as well. There should be no exception to these bills, piracy is not that huge of a problem and the money that these Corporations say there losing, never owned the money to begin with.