FileSonic disables file sharing in wake of MegaUpload arrests

[Denim Chicken]

Resistance by breaking into legit businesses and stealing personal information of legit every day joes just trying to get by? They then take Joe's money and use it for whatever spin they can garnish from fighting "the man"? That is ok with you and you don't care. You clearly stated so earlier...see? I bolded it so we don't get lost here.

So that total anarchy approach makes complete and total sense, no matter who gets hurt in the process? It's resistance and you are glad they are there. That's scary right there, Virgina.

Would you like it if someone hacked your PC or Bank or Bed Matress and stole your credit cards/cash and personal information and used it for w/e they chose was a resistance cause?

Would it bother you then, Virginia?

I somehow do not feel I would get a valid response, but I can assure you, if it was done to you, you would not be waving the Whiskey Rebellion flag of support.

I totally agree that I would not like it if someone stole anything from me, but I'm not sure how you are making that connection.

The activities that I mentioned had nothing to do with ‘legit businesses’. Let me list some of their targets: Church of Scientology, HB Gary, Child Porn sites, Stratfor military think tank, abusive police officers—how are these legit businesses?

And I do not agree with everything they do, or are purported to have done, but like I said; I am glad that we have pockets of resistance (against which I cannot elaborate on per site rules).

 

[iceberg]

I totally agree that I would not like it if someone stole anything from me, but I'm not sure how you are making that connection.

The activities that I mentioned had nothing to do with ‘legit businesses’. Let me list some of their targets: Church of Scientology, HB Gary, Child Porn sites, Stratfor military think tank, abusive police officers—how are these legit businesses?

And I do not agree with everything they do, or are purported to have done, but like I said; I am glad that we have pockets of resistance (against which I cannot elaborate on per site rules).

there's no good answer for this. if anonymous broke into your banks system and took all your information, if not money, are they still "noble" in your eyes?

i don't discount some of the targets they hit but sooner or later they'll hit one you do care about and then it gets personal. by then it's too late to stop it, ya know? damage done and the illusion broken.

i view the government to be one extreme of this. i view anonymous the other. if both weren't so "id" focused the rest of us in the middle wouldn't have to put up their crap.

i agree someone needs to hold the government accountable, i'm just not sure an anonymous group who does have strange ties to the very government it fights (some say) is the right answer when i feel both are wrong in the end.

 

[JustDezIt]

"Why was MegaUpload really shut down?

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)

I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak

Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works." "

 

[JonJon]

"Why was MegaUpload really shut down?

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)

I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak

Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works." "

And the plot thickens.

 

[Dallas]

"Why was MegaUpload really shut down?

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)

I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak

Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works." "

Now all of the sudden he's a friend to the artists? :laugh2: Ok! Well what about all of the material that was stolen from them that his company allowed? Hrmm?

It doesn't excuse the fact WHY they are shut down and hes in jail now does it? So what he was going to create Megabox. You are still in jail for allowing your site to host all of the one click stolen material. Now he wants to come out like heyyy guys..Im good...look what I was GOING to do for the artists. Sorry about all of the millions and millions of things we allowed to be stolen from you by allowing the one click download and not policing our site. Forgive n forget right?

Call me completely skeptical and a non believer. I cannot believe there are some many tin foil hat wearers nowadays in our society. I am no fan of our govt, but this is just bs nonsense after the fact.

 

[Denim Chicken]

Call me completely skeptical and a non believer. I cannot believe there are some many tin foil hat wearers nowadays in our society. I am no fan of our govt, but this is just bs nonsense after the fact.

Because everything is just as it seems and you should believe anything the Government tells you.

 

[JonJon]

Lets not turn this political fellas

 

[Hoofbite]

MegaUpload was gonna be SOPAs first big victory and when SOPA fell flat they just said "screw it, we'll shut them down anyway".

 

[YosemiteSam]

Kill The MPAA!!!

 

[Cythim]

MegaUpload was gonna be SOPAs first big victory and when SOPA fell flat they just said "screw it, we'll shut them down anyway".

More like they were waiting on SOPA to see if they could pile on more charges but decided to pull the trigger when SOPA fell flat.

 

[Hoofbite]

More like they were waiting on SOPA to see if they could pile on more charges but decided to pull the trigger when SOPA fell flat.

That's like writing someone a seatbelt ticket for not wearing a seatbelt before the law says you had to.

 

[Dallas]

Lets not turn this political fellas

The only one wanting to turn this political is the chicken denim dude.

For clarification n all....ya know...

 

[Cythim]

That's like writing someone a seatbelt ticket for not wearing a seatbelt before the law says you had to.

Terrible analogy, they were waiting for the seatbelt law to be written so they could write the ticket.