Originally posted by openeyeswideshut
I saw on the news today that the guys from Megaupload were making over 40 mill a year on that website. This makes me wonder why anonymous would do
such a thing in a retaliation to a couple guys making millions of dollars being thieve's. I know the movie companies are the real thieves for how
much they make a year, but these guys aren't any better than them.
I dont think anonymous are doing it for Kim Dotcom, its a principle thing about control of information by corrupt political bodies. As a westerner I
used to be amused that Iran and China censor the web, telling people what they can and cannot see, and yet here we are, having a democratic and
elected government censoring us.
Piracy relating to copyright and intellectual property is rightly illegal, people invest large sums in their work and IP is all they have to protect
it, how many people have fake Tag / Rolex from the lucky lucky guy abroad, why isnt america demanding the Turkish government close their Bazzars full
of counterfeit goods?.
Doesn't matter anyway, before fast downloads you could buy any movie / CD from the computer fairs, the guy at work, the 'black market'. You take
your chance if you want to break the law, there will always be an option.
Seems the stupid US think that chasing a few key sites they can cut the head off the snake, bit like Afghanistan, and now they are realising the
Taliban isnt going away, lets talk with them, same here, megaupload will be replaced a hundred times within 2012, thats alot of extradition and legal
time, US money sucking corporate lawyers will be making a fortune for very little difference to anything, only one winner here.