![]() No, I’d accept what you said as truth if there was evidence presented it was true. Collapse replies (51) Reply View in chronology ![]() ![]() I really doubt this is going to end well. After all, we’ve essentially wiped out a useful sector technology of overnight, and this is making a lot of people (NOT just pirates) very, very angry at us the world over. We’re quickly becoming pariahs online, and this will likely continue. What I find most disturbing is the sites that are simply banning all US IPs. MediaFire – Called to testify in the next 90 days Videoz – closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.Ĥshared – Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.įilePost – Deleting all material (will leave executables, pdfs, txts) Locked in the U.S.įileSonic – the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation). File sharing already disabled.įileJungle – Deleting files. Here’s a list someone posted on a message board a short while ago:įileServe – Closing does not sell premium. These kinds of things were exactly what people have been warning about… and yet the US government ignored all those warnings (and probably still doesn’t realize what it’s kicked off here).įiled Under: business models, cyberlockers, features, internetĬompanies: fileserve, filesonic, megaupload, upload.to Separately, as in the case of Uploaded.to, it’s also splintering the internet, by having foreign companies put blocks on US internet users. But many of us are quite worried about a few things: the fact that the entire site got completely shuttered despite substantial non-infringing uses… and that it’s now creating massive chilling effects for legitimate and useful services within the US. And, if that’s true, I expect that they will lose in court. It’s entirely possible (hell, perhaps probable) that the folks behind Megaupload went beyond the confines of the law. Useful services are being shut down due to an overreaction on the part of the US government.Īgain, this is exactly the kind of collateral damage that many of us were worried about. But for the many, many artists, companies and individuals who used them legitimately, this is pretty troubling. RIAA supporters are cheering this on - believing that all of these services really focused on infringing content. A bunch of other services, including FileServe and VideoBB have been killing their affiliate programs (again, which had been a good way for independent musicians to make money). ![]() Another site, Uploaded.to, then blocked all access from the US. For example, FileSonic - one of the most popular cyberlockers - has basically killed itself by no longer allowing sharing, and only allowing personal backup. Most companies rarely, if ever, inspect individual files to see if the material they store on behalf of users violates copyrights, unless they are notified by someone claiming infringement.Īnd… by Sunday, reports started spreading of other companies that provide useful services to people who want to legitimately share files… shutting down or limiting those services. But they are inherently ideal for anyone looking to illegitimately upload and share copyrighted video and audio files. And there are similar services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.Īll of these market themselves as legitimate ways to store content online. They include MediaFire, RapidShare, YouSendIt, Dropbox and Box.net. Many companies have crowded into the online storage market recently, most of them aimed at consumers and businesses that want convenient ways to get big data files out of their teeming in-boxes, off their devices and into the cloud - perhaps so that friends or co-workers can download them. On Saturday, the NY Times noted that plenty of legitimate companies were getting a bit nervous because of the language in the indictment:īut Megaupload was not the only such service on the Web. On Friday, we noted some of the troubling parts of the Megaupload indictment, and how many perfectly legitimate companies did many of the same things that the US government used to suggest that Mega was a evil criminal conspiracy. Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 09:16am - Mike Masnick
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