MEGAUPLOAD has been shut down

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So the biggest online sharing site has been shut down and as you would imaging a few people have been arrested.

latimesblogs.latimes.com/...

What are your thoughts on this?

20/01/2012

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Makra

@SevenII

Hell, it already started a few years ago around the time Myspace first started getting popular. A few of my mates have recently started putting their music for sale on iTunes. But iTunes still takes a huge cut I believe, so something like Megabox or whatever it's called, with a 90% cut for the artist would be a dramatic change for the industry.

25/01/2012

Mordor

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punk

these guys made millions allowing people to upload pirated stuff. I dont agree with sopa and all that crap but maybe I should get into piracy. its a lot more lucrative then selling drugs... there's now room with all these people jumping ship. ;)

(not that I do any of them, was reading an article about how much money there is in piracy)

25/01/2012

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Makra

SevenII said:
A few years ago, most labels would have taken a third of all earnings from an artist. Fair enough, managers, lawyers and whatnot need to be paid. Though a lot of that used to go towards archaic advertising (giant billboards, magazine spreads, the works) and production costs (CD's weren't cheap). Nowadays, most of that is completely irrelevant.

Missed that before. Not quite...

This is a really well written article by Courtney Love that covers that and others issues:
www.salon.com/...

26/01/2012

Mordor

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seajbreeze

So tell me does anyone really know how mega upload works?
[Facepalm]

26/01/2012

I'm a square in FlatLand

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cmpa1970

i didn't even know megauploads even existed.... -_-

26/01/2012

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SevenII

Makra said: ....
Missed that before. Not quite...
This is a really well written article by Courtney Love that covers that and others issues:
www.salon.com/...

I'm only about half way through reading it, but I'm amazed at how composed and almost eloquent her writing is. My image of Courtney Love used to be of a female-Sid Vicious. Thats now changed.

26/01/2012

Far side of the world... (Sydney)

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Makra

Hahah yeah I was surprised too. Huge article too, haven't finished reading it myself yet.

26/01/2012

Mordor

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