I love it I love it! Obama once again does wonders for his youth vote this election year. The way this is going, by the time November comes around I would say just about every college kid in existence will be voting Repub. Taking away their torrent sites during an election year? Bravo Obama!
They will probably reappear as a .onion site.
Like ripping off copywritten material is now a constitutional right?
Further proof that we don’t need SOPA. The current laws work just fine.
A lot of file sharing sites like Fileserve, Filesonic, Depositfiles, etc., have changed from file sharing to file storage. That means you can only download a file that you originally uploaded to them. Busting Megaupload had a massive ripple effect. It cost people a lot of money because they paid for long-term premium memberships which are now worthless (and created a tremendous headache for PayPal by disputing the changes in format and demanding refunds) but they haven’t slowed down their downloading pace. They just shifted to different formats like torrents. Look for either lawsuits against ISPs or extreme bandwidth limitations for consumers as the next step by the SOPA folks.
It amazes me how easy it is to steal artist’s music on the web, sometimes without knowing you are doing it.
I would have expected that to get music that wasn’t released freely by an artist, you’d have to at least find SOME secret code, or go to some back-door torrent site or something.
But I’ve been looking for album covers for my old albums (I’ve been taking my albums and making mp3’s for my player, and didn’t want to take pictures of the album covers). And most of the time, I find nice links to sites where someone has already created MP3s for the albums.
But clearly, these are all unauthorized. And nobody seems to care that artists aren’t getting paid for their work.
Imagine if some guy was good at woodworking, so he’d find logs, cut them up, and make things, and put them in his front yard.
And then, people would just walk by, and instead of buying them, they’d take the things, and replace them with logs.
I don’t think people would defend that kind of action, but maybe they would — we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.