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New Megaupload Will Change the World
- vmialik 14y agoBeing that Dot-com is an online entrepreneur starting a startup and ironically this community is "hacker" news. I wonder how many of the HN members actually support him here.
- paulhauggis 14y agoI'm still not sure how illegally copying content that you do not own is "changing the world". Anyone with money can do what he is doing. I'm really not impressed. Create your own content? Now you are changing the world.
- baggachipz 14y agoBesides apparently being written by a fifth grader, the article is as plump with hyperbole as Mr. "Dotcom" himself.
- hcarvalhoalves 14y agoAs weird as Kim is, I truly wish him to be successful on this, just to shake things up. Nowadays there's a monopoly on culture, if you're not in USA you can't buy software in AppStore, you can't listen to music on Spotify, you can't stream a movie on Netflix. DRM is a load of bullshit, country restrictions idem, and companies adopting it are in a comfortable position because while they have the government enforcing it on them, they also have no real competitors (torrent sites can't be considered competition - downloading a lot of stuff with dubious quality is simply not a convenient way to consume media). How long would country restrictions and DRM last if there was a global, non-restrictive and convenient source of content?