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Megaupload got taken down for copyright violations by the feds today with current law. [via]

I don’t know about Megaupload- because it was an FBI thing, and I assume something more than copyright violation was going on, but under existing law, DMCA, 350 websites were seized by ICE (which apparently enforces DMCA for some reason?) between June 30, 2010 and November 28, 2011.

Things that don’t make sense: ICE enforcing DMCA. 

But, yeah, according to the indictment executives made servers specifically available to copy youtube videos and gave money to people who uploaded specific copyrighted materials (among other things). But yeah, my favorite thing about the entire indictment is:

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Question, under DMCA weren’t web sites supposed to remove the copyrighted material? That’s it? So repeated violations meant taking the entire web site down?

“complaining?”

I’m sorry, did it bother you that people decided to make it known this shit wasn’t ok? 

It bothered me that people are overreacting about a bill that’s entire goal was not to overreach the government/corporations’ powers, but to defeat “rogue sites” that are hospitable to infringement of American copyright and intellectual property law. 

Why protest an entire bill and offer a bunch of bullshit “what ifs?” when, in fact, half of the bill is going to be ripped apart in debate on the floor anyway. Americans have been fear mongered by the internet lobby (yay lobbyists!), and instead of having a true debate about what needs to be done to stop copyright infringement, everyone jumped on the I’m ANTI SOPA/PIPA bandwagon. 

So, now what? Victory! We stopped the big, bad politicians! Don’t tread on me!

Meanwhile, there are still no solutions to the problem we were trying to resolve to “save jobs” and promote innovation, blah blah blah. 

(Source: jarebeardontcare)