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Youtube has a legitimate use. Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content, and for Kim Dotcom to make money off it. I, along with the rest of the

by MTWomg 14y ago

Youtube has a legitimate use. Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content, and for Kim Dotcom to make money off it. I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse of the content we released.

tnuc 14y ago
>Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content... You got any evidence? >I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse... Who is the "rest of the scene"?
- MTWomg 14y ago
  Read the US Government's case. It's pretty clearly laid out. Megaupload employees were even sharing links to user-uploaded pirated content hosted on their servers. Those who release pirated content in a particular way. All non-p2p warez groups.
  - hef19898 14y ago
    There is no judgement on this case yet. As far as I know people are still considered inocent until they are judged guilty. And that is without going into all the shit that went on during the Megaupload story.
    - MTWomg 14y ago
      That's fine and all, but the evidence is pretty clear....
      - hef19898 14y ago
        That's for proper jury or court to judge. At least in democratic legal systems.
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genwin 14y ago
Are you insulted by Google's funneling of revenue through Bermuda, so they pay only a tiny fraction of the taxes they otherwise would? I'm more insulted by that than what Dotcom does. Google is “flying a banner of doing no evil, and then they’re perpetrating evil under our noses,” said Abraham J. Briloff, a professor emeritus of accounting at Baruch College in New York who has examined Google’s tax disclosures.
- MTWomg 14y ago
  I am more insulted by Android.
kuja 14y ago
Acting like the entire warez scene exists for the greater good and isn't profit driven is ridiculous. Yeah, there's honest people in it just for the fun of cracking and such, but there's also plenty of siteops selling leech and taking "donations" of hardware in return for leech credits. How do you think the major private torrent sites get their releases so fast nowadays? Releases used to spread onto public sites much slower. At least Dotcom's service wasn't used /solely/ for piracy... you can attack his intentions all you want but the service itself was not illegal.
- MTWomg 14y ago
  The leech credits crap you are talking about died out when torrent sites began getting new pres under 2 minutes after pre.
bcoates 14y ago
Irony meter explosion aside, I still pretty regularly run into entirely legitimate broken links to Megaupload from people just using it as an host for their own stuff.
kybernetyk 14y ago
> insulted by this abuse of the content we released You see the irony, right?

by MTWomg 14y ago

tnuc 14y ago

>Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content... You got any evidence? >I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse... Who is the "rest of the scene"?

MTWomg 14y ago
Read the US Government's case. It's pretty clearly laid out. Megaupload employees were even sharing links to user-uploaded pirated content hosted on their servers. Those who release pirated content in a particular way. All non-p2p warez groups.
- hef19898 14y ago
  There is no judgement on this case yet. As far as I know people are still considered inocent until they are judged guilty. And that is without going into all the shit that went on during the Megaupload story.
  - MTWomg 14y ago
    That's fine and all, but the evidence is pretty clear....
    - hef19898 14y ago
      That's for proper jury or court to judge. At least in democratic legal systems.

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genwin 14y ago

Are you insulted by Google's funneling of revenue through Bermuda, so they pay only a tiny fraction of the taxes they otherwise would? I'm more insulted by that than what Dotcom does. Google is “flying a banner of doing no evil, and then they’re perpetrating evil under our noses,” said Abraham J. Briloff, a professor emeritus of accounting at Baruch College in New York who has examined Google’s tax disclosures.

MTWomg 14y ago
I am more insulted by Android.

kuja 14y ago

Acting like the entire warez scene exists for the greater good and isn't profit driven is ridiculous. Yeah, there's honest people in it just for the fun of cracking and such, but there's also plenty of siteops selling leech and taking "donations" of hardware in return for leech credits. How do you think the major private torrent sites get their releases so fast nowadays? Releases used to spread onto public sites much slower. At least Dotcom's service wasn't used /solely/ for piracy... you can attack his intentions all you want but the service itself was not illegal.

MTWomg 14y ago
The leech credits crap you are talking about died out when torrent sites began getting new pres under 2 minutes after pre.

bcoates 14y ago

Irony meter explosion aside, I still pretty regularly run into entirely legitimate broken links to Megaupload from people just using it as an host for their own stuff.

kybernetyk 14y ago

> insulted by this abuse of the content we released You see the irony, right?