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Voice of reason (one of the comments on that page) - I love the "It's just file storage/storage locker" arguments/analogies, which always ignore the fact that

Voice of reason (one of the comments on that page) - I love the "It's just file storage/storage locker" arguments/analogies, which always ignore the fact that MegaUpload's affiliate program paid uploaders when what they uploaded was downloaded. That was MU's business model, NOT providing storage space for you to upload the mad-beats for the track you're laying down, and so your partner 1000 miles a way could download, add their part, then re-upload back to you, etc. That's the 'front' to the operation... So, if your storage space company provided drug dealers a place to store their stash, AND a way to re-sell that stash, AND laundered the money from those sales, AND tried to provide you with plausible deniability for your activities, then you'd have a honest analogy for MegaUpload. Trying to say that MegaUpload and a Storage Locker company are the same is like trying to say the Sun and a grain of sand are the same, because both happen to be round.

blhack 14y ago
So just for fun, I'm going to play the contrarian here: "Oh come on. We put that system in place so that artists could get paid for uploading their tracks and releasing them for free to the community. If you uploaded your own music to mega, and 1,000,000 of your fans downloaded it, then we would share some of the advertising revenue with you. That's it. It's a cooperative business model that helps struggling artists. Need I remind you again that we worked with recording companies to remove copyrighted content?"