FBI charges Megaupload operators with piracy crimes

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
Humble bundle could have been bought for even $0.01(₹0.50) (if someone wanted to be that cheapo) so that should tell you how "much" cost has relation to piracy. Android apps are normally less than ₹200 as well.
 

sygeek

Technomancer
$500 Million of lost revenue?

According to what scale? The scale that consumers have been rejecting for the last 10 years?

[Interesting discussion over at reddit]
 
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bubusam13

bubusam13

Human
You cannot stop piracy but can reduce it. Piracy was there even in the days of VCR s and cassettes. Low cost will reduce it to some extent.
 

vaithy

In the zone
What trouble me is none of those indicted or arrested were U.S. citizens or had likely even ever set foot on U.S. soil. Even if you're in another country, you had better make sure you're not violating U.S. law. Here's a full list of those foreigners who foolishly thought they weren't under U.S. jurisdiction (from the DOJ website [justice.gov]):

Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, 37, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand. Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited and is the director and sole shareholder of Vestor Limited, which has been used to hold his ownership interests in the Mega-affiliated sites.

Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;

Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;

Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;

Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;

Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;

Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega conspiracy websites.

all of them are arrested in newzeland warrant issued by US authorities..

By the same degrees, even without setting the foot in US soil indians can to be arrested if USA wanted the Indian torrents sharers..With or without SOPA already make it presence worldover...
 

Vyom

The Power of x480
Staff member
Admin
The FBI has busted the alleged operators of Internet locker service Megaupload, which had become one of the most popular video destinations on the Web, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department.

Check this Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline :p

And the war has begun. The DOS attacks by Anons may give fuzzy feeling to the people who oppose SOPA (including me, yeah right), but I wonder these temporary attacks may not bear any fruitful result for the bill to decline. More so, this may lead to pass it faster because of the fear which these attacks may induce into those rusted minds.

What about the torrent sites?

Haven't you heard of pirate bay turning to magnet links only site? Please go find the thread, which is this same section of the forum.

more and more sites are falling by Anonymous' hands.

:rolleyes:
 

Prime_Coder

I'm a Wannabe Hacker
By the same degrees, even without setting the foot in US soil indians can to be arrested if USA wanted the Indian torrents sharers..With or without SOPA already make it presence worldover...

That's the real danger for us. Even without SOPA, they are taking such actions, what will happen, if SOPA gets passed?
 
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