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No, MegaUpload was shut down after years of investigation, not because big music companies got wind of their recent plans and bribed the FBI or something. I'm
by jmonegro 15y ago
No, MegaUpload was shut down after years of investigation, not because big music companies got wind of their recent plans and bribed the FBI or something.
I'm a bit concerned as to how things went down, but honestly, MegaUpload had it coming. I'm sure there's lots of people who used it legitimately, but I've personally never seen one person or link to a MegaUpload file online that wasn't meant for piracy.
- jeffool 15y agoI understand how it could seem that way, but consider the math. If they caused $500M in lost sales, and EVERY illegal download is a lost sale, then with 50M users a day, if everyone was downloading $1 songs, they only had about ten days of piracy. If ever user was pirating one item. If higher priced materials were pirated, or users pirated more than one item, then we're talking less time. Maybe a week, maybe less, of rampant, constant piracy. And this site, roughly, was open since when, 2006?
- nextparadigms 15y agoPerhaps, but taking it down now is certainly no coincidence.
- scott_s 15y agoWhat evidence makes you say that? "Timing" is not going to convince me; that self-referentially uses the fact that prompted the question as its own answer.