The whole Megaupload controversy has certainly filled the web with gigabytes of news and information updated everyday. I've seen people rumoring about why other sites haven't been shut down yet? Or why was Megaupload on top of feds' list?
Megaupload different from other file-sharing sites, offered different services that were mostly used for "piracy" according to their prosecutors. In our opinion, it's not about censoring a site or putting in people in jail for letting other people share their little investment and upload it so that other people see it.
Federal Government says Megaupload administrators shouldn't have let people use the site on that purpose first. But it's not something you can actually manage, let's face it. US Government being the so called perfect form of country administration, has their downsides too.
Closing a website and putting people in jail just because they let other people share illegally from their perspective, is just as destroying a country and putting people in jail for letting crimes pass by. In 2004, there was an average of 44.5 murders per day in the US (source). Why wasn't the US Government judged for letting that happen? Isn't the US supposed to be in charge of preventing that from happening?
You could think about them doing something to prevent it. And that's reasonable. But it isn't if you look at the point of view where is not about a site or country management, but the people in it. True fact is, you can't stop piracy. Not by closing a website, or by censoring the Internet. If you look at this from this way, I can just go and buy a CD from a music store and let other people borrow it. Who would know I did that?
The best thing to fight against piracy, or file-sharing, is to change the entire's world perspective of principles and values. That's something you definitively can't change by censoring the Internet. Record Companies should be looking into a different way of making money other than just selling the product itself.
Apple did a great job with the iTunes Store, and people really use it and take advantage of that. It's much neater than going to a store and buy a CD, in fact, you end up transferring the CD back to your iTunes Library. Record Companies letting time pass because of people promoting piracy, and just sitting there waiting for people to buy their albums, is just as mediocre as sitting and waiting for money to come down from heaven by doing nothing.
Even taking it from a religious views, most religions promote that you do something so that you get something. Why aren't record labels doing something to get money out of it? I'm not saying buying a record is not necessary, but I'd do something more to get people's attention, therefore people's money.
I've seen some posts in the Internet regarding why was Megaupload on top of everyone's lists. Other people saying why they haven't shut down other sites like 4Shared, or Mediafire. One of the reasons is, Megaupload gave the ability to share files without an account, and you had a 2 GB limit. If you opened a free account, they gave up to 200 GB storage. Going with a Premium account, you had unlimited storage.
Other sites limit you up to much less than that, and of course you can't share an entire TV season with 2 GB of limit. That's what made Megaupload popular against other sites, therefore, being on top of record label companies list and federal government too.
Megaupload different from other file-sharing sites, offered different services that were mostly used for "piracy" according to their prosecutors. In our opinion, it's not about censoring a site or putting in people in jail for letting other people share their little investment and upload it so that other people see it.
Federal Government says Megaupload administrators shouldn't have let people use the site on that purpose first. But it's not something you can actually manage, let's face it. US Government being the so called perfect form of country administration, has their downsides too.
Closing a website and putting people in jail just because they let other people share illegally from their perspective, is just as destroying a country and putting people in jail for letting crimes pass by. In 2004, there was an average of 44.5 murders per day in the US (source). Why wasn't the US Government judged for letting that happen? Isn't the US supposed to be in charge of preventing that from happening?
You could think about them doing something to prevent it. And that's reasonable. But it isn't if you look at the point of view where is not about a site or country management, but the people in it. True fact is, you can't stop piracy. Not by closing a website, or by censoring the Internet. If you look at this from this way, I can just go and buy a CD from a music store and let other people borrow it. Who would know I did that?
The best thing to fight against piracy, or file-sharing, is to change the entire's world perspective of principles and values. That's something you definitively can't change by censoring the Internet. Record Companies should be looking into a different way of making money other than just selling the product itself.
Apple did a great job with the iTunes Store, and people really use it and take advantage of that. It's much neater than going to a store and buy a CD, in fact, you end up transferring the CD back to your iTunes Library. Record Companies letting time pass because of people promoting piracy, and just sitting there waiting for people to buy their albums, is just as mediocre as sitting and waiting for money to come down from heaven by doing nothing.
Even taking it from a religious views, most religions promote that you do something so that you get something. Why aren't record labels doing something to get money out of it? I'm not saying buying a record is not necessary, but I'd do something more to get people's attention, therefore people's money.
I've seen some posts in the Internet regarding why was Megaupload on top of everyone's lists. Other people saying why they haven't shut down other sites like 4Shared, or Mediafire. One of the reasons is, Megaupload gave the ability to share files without an account, and you had a 2 GB limit. If you opened a free account, they gave up to 200 GB storage. Going with a Premium account, you had unlimited storage.
Other sites limit you up to much less than that, and of course you can't share an entire TV season with 2 GB of limit. That's what made Megaupload popular against other sites, therefore, being on top of record label companies list and federal government too.
