Will Megauploads demise effect tv piracy?

Richard Dower

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Rapidshare is now on the hook!

http://www.digitalspy.ie/tech/news/a371631/rapidshare-ordered-to-monitor-content-for-copyrighted-material.html

budhabob

Richard Dower wrote: »

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Rapidshare is now on the hook!

http://www.digitalspy.ie/tech/news/a371631/rapidshare-ordered-to-monitor-content-for-copyrighted-material.html

ah Crap.

120_Minutes

Richard Dower wrote: »

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Rapidshare is now on the hook!

http://www.digitalspy.ie/tech/news/a371631/rapidshare-ordered-to-monitor-content-for-copyrighted-material.html

Thats because Icefilms, who used to use Megaupload links switched over to Rapidshare, but are finding RS links to be crappy....but have no other option at the moment.

Mr E

Requests for streams/alternative download sites deleted.
Please read the charter (and have some basic cop on).

Cantona's Collars

Mr E wrote: »

Requests for streams/alternative download sites deleted.
Please read the charter (and have some basic cop on).

What about google? That's the biggest & easiest way to find these things.

Sean Sherlock didn't think of that when he signed off on censoring our internet.

vamos!

zerks wrote: »

What about google? That's the biggest & easiest way to find these things.

Sean Sherlock didn't think of that when he signed off on censoring our internet.

I actually did try google and got bucket loads of broken links and was worried about clicking on some of them. None of my friends could help either.

Also, I thought it might be a good use of cop on to ask on a forum with a poll where most users plan to use streaming services. Hadn't read the charter though so apologies for breaking it.

Mr E

No harm done, vamos....

Kur4mA

They can shut down as many of these sharing/upload sites as they want, as well as torrent trackers... none of it will make a difference if they don't go after "The Scene" and go after the source.

To be honest, even if they did and were successful doing that it wouldn't matter. There are much better ways and means which are more difficult to track and go after.

The only thing that this is going to do is educate people in how not to get caught. Take a look through many of the upload sites and very few are offering membership solely for that site. When you sign up now you get access to 30 or 40 different upload sites and with more springing up each day it's going to take a long time before any of this has any significant impact.

Cantona's Collars

A twist in the megaupload case:

In another astonishing development in the Megaupload saga, a judge in New Zealand’s High Court has declared the order used to seize Kim Dotcom’s assets as “null and void”. The blunder, which occurred because the police applied for the wrong type of court order, means that the Megaupload founder could have his property returned.

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-seizure-order-null-and-void-says-high-court-120318/

There's even a new tool for Chrome & Firefox to help search for videos etc. to download via trackers and other sources.I won't mention the name of it here or link to it unless a mod gives the ok.
It seems as soon as one avenue is closed we get another better one straight away.

briany

zerks wrote: »

A twist in the megaupload case:


http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-seizure-order-null-and-void-says-high-court-120318/

There's even a new tool for Chrome & Firefox to help search for videos etc. to download via trackers and other sources.I won't mention the name of it here or link to it unless a mod gives the ok.
It seems as soon as one avenue is closed we get another better one straight away.

It's still as easy as ever for people to download things in relative anonymity but the MU shut down has sent real ripples out across the streaming sites. With many of them trying to cover their ársés, it's become harder to find quality streams in HTTP land.

_AVALANCHE_

All these sites could be shut down by the end of the year if the powers that be wanted.

It suits them to let them at it, while new laws are pushed to help them control the net in the future using illegal downloads as the need for them.

Kirby

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

All these sites could be shut down by the end of the year if the powers that be wanted.

It suits them to let them at it, while new laws are pushed to help them control the net in the future using illegal downloads as the need for them.

That's complete rubbish. There is no master plan to allow piracy now to defeat it later. CEO's care about profits now, not projected profits in ten years. If they have a bad quarter, they get the boot. The music, games and movie industry believe they are losing billions to online piracy.

If "the powers that be" could get all filesharing and torrent sites shut down tomorrow, they would. It's just not that simple as you have to deal with jurisdiction and international law due to servers being located all over the world. It takes forever and isn't possible in a lot of cases. Isolated cases like MU and ThePirateBay just prove the point. Drops in the ocean and they took years.

The only way to curb it is to control the ISP's as you can't control the internet itself.....only how people access it. And there are so many ISP's around the world its very difficult. In this piddly country alone we have dozens. So they go after the lawmakers to try and force the ISP's to play ball. That might work. But it will take time.

Richard Dower

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Another one bites the dust!!

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RUCKING FETARD

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