MegaUpload Shut Down Because of Megabox Jukebox Service?

[digitalzom-b]

[citation][nom]mobrocket[/nom]Thanks FBI for protecting me from this evil company....Yet Bank of America still operating... interesting...[/citation]

Pay the right people and you get whatever you want. U.S. Capitalism.

 

[Rusting In Peace]

I hadn't seen a picture of Kim Dotcom and assumed that they were female. Why not given that Kim is a girl's name right?

My image of Kim Dotcom went from a sassy woman who looks like Summer Glau to that balding chubber. The horror!

 

[del35]

The music industry is a parasite that along with iCrap-the-defrauder deserves to be eradicated. And let us not forget the publishing industry. The world has to wake up to these thieving middlemen. They are not needed and can be done away with.

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]But future musicians would have a very hard time getting noticed because of this. for new artists, their success depends largely on being signed.[/citation]
Yeah.... no. We're not in 1995 anymore. Musicians get noticed faster and more easily since the internet. I can easily imagine that such a system would incorporate a "new artists" section, which music lovers crave. In 2012, signing an artist is leeching money off him for no added benefit.

 

[__-_-_-__]

[citation][nom]xerroz[/nom]That's 85% more what the record labels currently give to the artists. As always the music industry screws the people and the artists[/citation]
98,73% more.

 

[thornbreaker]

Yes, the Megabox plan was to allow artists to sell their work and keep most of the profit, or offer it for free and Megabox would push them money for doing so.

I'm not sure why an iTunes wouldn't go for that as well. You'd have the music industry market over night.

I don't mind them arresting Dotcom if he's actually involved with piracy or copyright infringement, or in the least possibly obstruction.

That should have nothing to do with his wealth or how many cars he has. Nothing wrong with being rich or poor, and especially achieving wealth by legal means.

 

[thornbreaker]

[citation][nom]digitalzom-b[/nom]Pay the right people and you get whatever you want. U.S. Capitalism.[/citation]

Pay the right people and still don't get what you wanted...Socialism.

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]anonymous32111[/nom]War on drugs & piracy - never-ending waste of our tax dollars.[/citation]
well that increases the profits of the media companies which in return increases taxes
war on drugs is like wars on serial killers and stuff like that, it saves your life and the lives of people you love (and hate)

 

[rawful]

[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]well that increases the profits of the media companies which in return increases taxeswar on drugs is like wars on serial killers and stuff like that, it saves your life and the lives of people you love (and hate)[/citation]

Except for the fact that our government is the reason these drugs are even getting into America. It is just another form of control, and another way for the government to wage war against it's own citizens.

 

[bustapr]

[citation][nom]rawful[/nom]Except for the fact that our government is the reason these drugs are even getting into America. It is just another form of control, and another way for the government to wage war against it's own citizens.[/citation]
ITS E CONSPIRECY I TEL YE!

 

[cybnetic]

Its only good time when the artists can do what they want with their music. time for change is near. goodbye music industry!!!

 

[simplec1]

[citation][nom]Geoff123456[/nom]tell that to a family who has had a loved one captured by those pirates, and held hostage for years for a payout.Im glad we are happy to send the navy out to protect ships rather then decide their lives arnt worth spending your tax dollars on[/citation]

dude what you smokin?, the article is about digital piracy and the music being scared of what this guy could have done, not what's going on in africa

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]simplec1[/nom]

tell that to a family who has had a loved one captured by those pirates, and held hostage for years for a payout.Im glad we are happy to send the navy out to protect ships rather then decide their lives arnt worth spending your tax dollars on

dude what you smokin?, the article is about digital piracy and the music being scared of what this guy could have done, not what's going on in africa[/citation]
haven't laughed that much for years (on the guy who browses a HW site and doesn't know what pirates mean)

 

[n3ard3ath]

Damn, he's sexy.

 

[eddieroolz]

So obviously, there's a hidden side to this...

 

[Guest]

Whoa, cutting out the big corporations and giving the profits directly to the musicians, that was an act of open war.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]tell that to a family who has had a loved one captured by those pirates, and held hostage for years for a payout.Im glad we are happy to send the navy out to protect ships rather then decide their lives arnt worth spending your tax dollars on[/citation]

I think he/she meant software/digital piracy, not piracy of people and physical objects.