soooo...megaupload

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

Wrong.




Tough question. Kind of like asking someone how they believe in a god they have not seen, touched, or physically heard.

Physically, in the from of atoms, the data was there and an item, so your question is void.

1st, why wrong?

and 2. so why is that corporations claim they have lost X amount of dollars when they never owned that money to begin with?

[Steamer]

1st, why wrong?

and 2. so why is that corporations claim they have lost X amount of dollars when they never owned that money to begin with?

1. The Boston Tea Party was a very successful protest.
2. They are false claims based on inflated projections. Their claim is invalid, they just have the right corrupt people in power to listen.

[Carmichal]

stuck in my head dammit!!!


IM KILLING AMERICA!!!!!!!!! IM SO FUCKING PISSED IM GOING RIGHT NOW TO PISS ON THE ALAMO, AND THE TOWER OF AMERICA. I'M SAVING ALL MY PEE IN JARS THEN WHEN I GO TO DC I AM GOING TO MAKE IT RAIN YELLOW WATER ON THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!! MOUTHER FUCKING FUCKERS ASS HOLE LICKING LOOSE CUNT WHOLES. then i am moving to canada.

/end rage

[maynard]

if this protest should be labeled anything it should be the worlds laziest protest

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

if this protest should be labeled anything it should be the worlds laziest protest

. Lol. There where gatherings of hundreds of people to. But it is pretty lazy in the sense that its behind a computer screen.

Steamer, as i stated before, " protest start" in one day several congressmen coverted to opposition regarding the bills. It was extremely successful in that sense. It isn't over by any means but yesterday will be a remembered day in American history and I'm proud to have been a part of it.

[B1ackOut]

Its all fun and games until one powerful country's government gets butthurt...

[Steamer]

It still isn't the first successful "protest start" lol. We can argue about it all night, but we both know whats right.

Very successful though, lets just see were the rest heads.

[Penis シ]

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.

[maynard]

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.

epic fail. last I checked the entertainment industry is still making money as they always have... this is simply butt hurt bullshit and nothing more, and any 1 who supports SOPA, or thinks it's a good idea is a fucking Tool.

Internet piracy will NEVER stop, nor be controlled.

[Penis シ]

No, and you'll never stop all the drug dealers, and you'll never stop all murders, but at the same time, you can't just let such things go on unchecked.

To step in and say something needs to be done is perfect. I don't for a SECOND like how they want to go about it, but the most recent law we have on record for such a thing is from the late 90's when dial-up ruled the scene and floppy disks were the most prominent method of data exchange.

Like I said, they're on the right track and nobody that's at the top says different, but they've gone about doing it in a TERRIBLE way. That's what the hubbub is about.