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No. 4865
ID: 109c38
>>4864
We're not concerned about having a site to upload and download from. You obviously miss the point of this discussion. No one cares about your crappy site, now go away.
MegaUpload is already back online at http://109.236.83.66/.
The point is that the government is accusing them of direct copyright infringement. The fact of the matter is, they did not control what people uploaded. They simply do not have the manpower to sit there and investigate every single file that gets uploaded. When something was flagged as a copyright infringement, it was taken down. Did that mean ALL the uploads of that same file were taken down? No. Why? Because that would be impossible. They could spend an entire day taking down all the files they found for one specific item, meanwhile people are still uploading it and spreading it. And while they are fighting over one specific file, other people would have been uploading other copyrighted material.
But what the government is accusing them of is organized piracy... When all they did was offer a file storage service. Was it used for piracy? Yes. But look at the comments in many of these news articles on it... People use it for more then just piracy. I myself have used it for distribution of minecraft content. Things that I have created myself, or that others have created, and want to distribute freely to other players. And that is just one example. The site was used for millions of downloads and uploads every day... And not all of them were over copyrighted material.
Even if MegaUpload does stay down, it will come back up in another form. Somme other website will offer the same service, along with the 50 other sites that already currently offer the service.
The US government is fighting an uphill battle to enforce outdated copyright laws, so executives in media distribution companies can continue to line their pockets. This piracy does not hurt the artist... They're lucky if they can make 10% off the sales of things that THEY created. Most of the income generated from media goes to the production and distribution companies.
If they were to update to the times, then they would be able to lower their prices to a reasonable rate and soon they would find piracy lessening. It would never truely dissapear, and anyone thinking that it will is an idiot.
Take a good look at the cost of electronic media these days, and the history of it.
In the 80s, you could buy a VHS for $10 - $20. Brand new. Today, walmart still charges between $20 and $30 for a single DVD. Between $30 and $50 for a bluray.
Look at music. In the 80s you could buy a casette tape for $5 - $10. Now, a CD is $20 or more. You can go to online sites and buy individual songs for $1 a piece, but in many cases that is still 20+ songs.
Need something more comparable? When I was in high school back in the 90s, I could take the small amount of money I earned from my allowance and the work I did to have some spending cash. I would go to the store and buy a game for my Sega Genesis for $25. Sometimes it was more, but that was the average cost of things. I would then take that game home, and I would play it for hours. I still have a good number of my old genesis games, and I still play them.
Now, you pay $60 - $80 for one game. If you're lucky you'll get 10 hours of play out of it. If you aren't... Well.. You're looking on average closer to 4 hours of play. What do you do when you're done with it? You sell it, or you trade it in hopes to get $30 trade value out of it so you can then put another $50 on a brand new game to play, and repeat the process.
If games were priced more reasonably (as Wii games tend to be) then you will find more sales and higher profit margins. Instead of only selling to people that can afford to pay almost a 15% chunk of the average rent payment, PER GAME, You then sell to more people who will be more willing to pay for something they feel has been valued what it is worth compared to the current economy.
Inflation is the root of the problem here. Prices continue to rise while wages do not. I used to be able to go to the cinema every week. It would cost me $5 to get in, and another $5 for a box of popcorn and a large drink. $10 total investment per week.
It is now $8 for the ticket, $5 for a large drink, $4 for a box of popcorn, and $3 for a regular sized candy bar.
The same candy bar that costs $0.80 in a supermarket store. The same popcorn that cost them about 30 cents to make. The same soda that is a total cost of roughly $1 for them.
Money is the root of all evil, and is the root of all these problems. Prices raise, but wages do not.
The system needs an overhaul. Things need to be handled for the people, and not for the select few who control the country because they have the money.
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