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Post by Zrined on Jan 20, 2012 3:20:30 GMT
Well, as I'm assuming many of you heard, the site megaupload.com was taken down Thursday through efforts made by many governments. However, Anonymous has responded to this by taking down the MPAA's (Motion-Picture Association of America) site and others such as justice.gov and the RIAA's site.
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Post by Fringe Pioneer on Jan 20, 2012 22:18:21 GMT
I applaud (some of) the hacktivist efforts of Anonymous...
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Post by Qwerty on Jan 21, 2012 9:51:34 GMT
Kinda funny, I just read an article about them in Wired. Only news article to ever portray them accurately.
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Post by izacque on Jan 25, 2012 19:24:51 GMT
You know, the take-down of MegaUpload happened through the proper government channels already in place. The process took about two years, and Mega Upload repeatedly refused to do anything about the piracy on their site; they profited from it. Mega-upload is the type of site that SOPA wants to target. Well, This just goes to show that we don't need SOPA to take down a website. We already have perfectly fine infrastructure for it. The take-down of MegaUpload is actually a good thing.
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 25, 2012 20:04:10 GMT
You know, the take-down of MegaUpload happened through the proper government channels already in place. The process took about two years, and Mega Upload repeatedly refused to do anything about the piracy on their site; they profited from it. Mega-upload is the type of site that SOPA wants to target. Well, This just goes to show that we don't need SOPA to take down a website. We already have perfectly fine infrastructure for it. The take-down of MegaUpload is actually a good thing. Well the arrest of the owner was a good thing, but the site itself was very useful for legitimate reasons.
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Post by Qwerty on Jan 26, 2012 2:19:40 GMT
The owner got 50 years in prison. A murderer-rapist got 20, and so did a guy that killed 93 people in Sweden (plus he gets three months paid vacation per year). Sorry, what is this about "Fairness" that I keep hearing?
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Post by ganondorfchampin on Jan 26, 2012 9:36:07 GMT
The owner got 50 years in prison. A murderer-rapist got 20, and so did a guy that killed 93 people in Sweden (plus he gets three months paid vacation per year). Sorry, what is this about "Fairness" that I keep hearing? Just because his sentence is absurdly long doesn't mean it was wrong for him to have been incriminated.
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Post by Anonymousperson5 on Jan 26, 2012 14:32:30 GMT
He still did infringe. The term shouldn't have been that long though. Also, for those people qwerty mentioned, theres that news article about a man who stole a hundred dollar bill and got a 15-year term and a guy who stole millions of dollars but got a 3-month term. That doesn't mean their term should be lessened, it means the guys who did the disgusting things should get a much longer term than pirates...
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Post by ~Memzak~ on Jan 30, 2012 9:10:35 GMT
Hahaha... wait till you hear about ACTA...
This was nothing. Check out my other thread.
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