Got a little problem with this. I'm totally against the current legislation, but if you the read the indictment again MU, they were taken down because they were (allegedly) systematically cataloging the illegal uploads on their site and then monetizing them to the tune of $110 million dollars. That's a totally different thing from something being your site that you know nothing about.
Hadn't seen that, but it that's so then something needed to be done. What annoys me is the lack of warning, so that people using the site to store even perfectly legal things weren't given the opportunity to transfer them elsewhere.
I'm against the SOPA and PIPA legislations, but being British leaves me feeling rather helpless.
I agree with you - I just don't know how they could have done this. I have a paid subscription to MediaFire - everything on there is mine. My pdfs, my video shows from my trips. For me its so nice because I can have some files open access (like the story pdfs) and others I can password restrict (trip pics).
Yes I will pissed if they take down MediaFire, but apparently MU was the worst offender out there. (Youtube probably has as much bootleg stuff, but they aren't actively soliciting/monetizing illegal content).
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Date: 2012-01-20 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 03:36 pm (UTC)I'm against the SOPA and PIPA legislations, but being British leaves me feeling rather helpless.
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Date: 2012-01-20 06:44 pm (UTC)Yes I will pissed if they take down MediaFire, but apparently MU was the worst offender out there. (Youtube probably has as much bootleg stuff, but they aren't actively soliciting/monetizing illegal content).