District Court in Manhattan granted several requests for summary judgment made by the music labels, which are represented by the Recording Industry Association of America. You may change your billing preferences at any time in the Customer Center or call Customer Service. You will be notified in advance of any changes in rate or terms. You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service.
Skip to Main Content Skip to Search. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. Bloggers and people like you are the only ones left. You,and your friends need to get this story out. Some sites have quarantined the U. Megaupload defendants are being held without bail like they committed murder,thier business has been shutdown.
So much for innocent till proven guilty,huh? This seems to me to be a big story. The media has completely ignored what is happening. What are your thoughts? Dave-the more i look into this the more I see this as the death of the internet as we knew it. Maybe megaupload was one of the biggest offenders offering illegal content of all the file sharing sites but obviously,google provides links to all sites. These gutless feds. Every file on megaupload and every other site can be linked to thru google.
Which makes Google,by far,the biggest source of illegal downloads in the world. Geez,am I wrong? Anyway you look at it both defendants committed the same crime. The DOJ siezed and shutdown megaupload. Youtube,granted,at a much less agregous level makes available illegal copywrited content for download. Is this the DOJs 1st attack in a greater war to end filesharing? After all,no site that allows free uploading can possibly police all content.
Will the feds now look to see who downloaded files from megaupload? Should American citizens who downloaded copywrited music,movies etc from megaupload be worried that now they could get a knock on the door. Is the seizing and shutdown of megaupload the endgame. Or can the feds now look at downloads and show up at peoples doors? There are no degrees of difference. Kill one person. Kill You get charged with murder. The DOJ could sieze and shutdown youtube,google,yahoo and pretty much every file sharing site anytime they want.
These sites are no different then Megaupload. Just different degrees of hosting illegal content. So how much effort does a site need to make to be legal? Yeah,youtube,google etc have tremendous resources to police illegal content. The freedom of the web is at stake here. Did megaupload make a good faith effort? I doubt they respond, however. Will the feds,like with limewire,now start showing up at the door of US citizens who used megaupload to download some of the same things they can get at youtube?
Is megaupload just more illegal then youtube? Is this just the start of the DOJ siezing any file sharing site that offers copywrited material? The Obama administration and congress have already shown a complete disregard for the constitution with the recent law allowing indefinite detention of US citizens without charges or a trial.
Please respond at length to todays megaupload shutdown. I ought to add to this rant that the main reason concert tickets are soooo expensive is because of people illegally downloading albums. The artists lose out on album sales, so the price of concert tickets goes up.
Pay for downloading music if you ever want concert prices to come down, if for no other reason, because without it, they never will. Abi, you are an idiot! You still have the hard copy when your computer and hard drives crash!
Buy the music and support the artist. US judge Kimba Wood ruled that record companies "have suffered — and will continue to suffer — irreparable harm from LimeWire's inducement of widespread infringement of their works", adding that the potential damages were "staggering". The court also ruled that LimeWire should "use all reasonable technological means to immediately cease and desist" copyright infringements still taking place through applications already downloaded.
Yesterday's court order comes after a four-year legal battle between LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America , the representative body for many of the world's largest record labels. In May, Wood found LimeWire liable for widespread copyright infringement. The level of damages faced by the site's New York-based parent company, Lime Group, will be decided in January The rise to prominence of peer-to-peer filesharing networks is singled out as a primary factor for this decline by the RIAA.
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