Analysis: Megaupload Shutdown Unlikely To Deter Piracy, page 1

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Topic started on 24-1-2012 @ 06:23 AM by UberL33t

By Joseph Menn and Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:01pm EST

(Reuters) - The crackdown on file-sharing site Megaupload is expected to do little to reduce overall piracy of music, software and Hollywood movies, while potentially stifling emerging means of distributing content online.

In the wake of last week's surprising indictment of the digital storage company and seven executives, other companies have begun changing their policies even as Megaupload officers maintained their innocence in a first court appearance in New Zealand.

Filesonic.com stopped allowing people to download files that they had not uploaded themselves, while Uploaded.to blocked access from Internet locations in the United States.

However, just 3 percent of U.S. Internet users relied on digital lockers like Megaupload in the third quarter, according to NPD market research, compared with 9 percent who used peer-to-peer networks, which allow sharing of files among consumers' computers with little or no central organization.

Ya think?

Perfect example to back-up this analysis would be this post authored by THE_PROFESSIONAL:

No Megaupload? No Problem

If piracy had a "mainstream" it would not be the use of file lockers or even P2P networks. Most of these types of programs were created for a more "user friendly" platform (for all intents and purposes) for the average Joe.

Their are so many "streams" (that are not common knowledge or have been forgotten i.e. IRC) to plop your virtual fishing line in to catch (download) whatever your little heart desires whether licensed, copyrighted, or otherwise.

Even if they do shut down the 12% of what the minority is using they have only scratched at the surface.

When they start to take down the actual platforms and networks where the majority of the piracy is running rampant then the pirates will find another method as they have been doing consistently since it began. I am afraid aside from totally switching off the internet, this will never be a battle that is won by TPTB, imo.

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