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10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

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Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#31

I don't understand why we taxpayers decide to pool our money to pay for a staff of employees to ensure that we can't have free music and movies. I would prefer free music and movies over more federal payroll. It's like we all pitched in to ensure Kim Kardashian can have more money.

I like free food, money, and objects.

Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#33

I don't understand why we taxpayers decide to pool our money to pay for a staff of employees to ensure that we can't have free music and movies. I would prefer free music and movies over more federal payroll. It's like we all pitched in to ensure Kim Kardashian can have more money.

it's a very complex issue to understand the intertial (traditional) forces behind why we cannot have a megaupload.

Maybe we can make some sense of why we cannot have a megaupload by realizing that we are talking about acting against forces that have existed for dozens of hundreds of years, namely commerce in any form. whereas the internet is barely going on 30 years, and even less as a truly mainstream medium.

Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#34

I don't understand why we taxpayers decide to pool our money to pay for a staff of employees to ensure that we can't have free music and movies. I would prefer free music and movies over more federal payroll. It's like we all pitched in to ensure Kim Kardashian can have more money.

Would you be okay if large for profit companies didn’t have to abide by open source licenses? What’s the incentive to make movies or music just to be given away for free? Would you work for free?

I would work for free if I didn't need money to get any and all things, from basic necesities to frivolous luxuries

Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#36

The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.

Yes, MEGA is amazing. Unlike Megaupload, I have only used MEGA for personal use and not pirated content download. I think MEGA being fully encrypted was their answer to them being targeted for hosting any illegal content (with MEGA, they were hosting encrypted files, which they don't have access to themselves because the encryption key remains with the client). Did it take off as the replacement for pirated content s…

I get most of my pirated niche music from MEGA and Google Drive links, hosted on a blogspot page.

Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#37

The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.

Interestingly, a large percentage of my incoming spam has a mega.nz reply-to/return-path. Does mega.nz allow anonymous emails, or are these just spoofed?

Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#38

The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.

Interestingly, a large percentage of my incoming spam has a mega.nz reply-to/return-path. Does mega.nz allow anonymous emails, or are these just spoofed?

I get spoofed ones.

Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah i love it as well. plus i can buy the premium service in BTC...

But why would anyone buy anything with BTC?

I get that the fees are high, but if that is where you happen to have a lot of value stored, then maybe it is still worthwhile... especially if they want a degree of anonymity.

Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload

#40

I don't understand why we taxpayers decide to pool our money to pay for a staff of employees to ensure that we can't have free music and movies. I would prefer free music and movies over more federal payroll. It's like we all pitched in to ensure Kim Kardashian can have more money.

> we can't have free music

and musicians can't have free food and housing

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