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With MegaUpload being shut down by the FEDS with 4 of their operators arrested, things can only get worse from here. There are still 3 to arrest and be charged with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Seems to me this been going on since January 5th. What I didn’t know though was the fact that Swizz Beats is the CEO. Since when?

With the FEDS shutting down MegaUpload today seems like (my husband was just using the site earlier today) that this is only the beginning to the end of the internet. Soon enough the FEDS will be in the news indefinitely.

MegaUpload is a “digital locker” that allows users to store files that can then be streamed or downloaded by others. Its subsidiary site MegaVideo became very popular for the unauthorized downloads of movies and TV shows. Users whose uploaded content proved particularly popular were paid for their participation. -L.A. Times

What I’m not understanding is why were the operators arrested? Weren’t they just running the servers? It’s not like they were allowing the pirated files to be in there, it’s just too many of them. All I can say is MegaUpload has been around for a while but ever since this battle with Universal Music, then all of sudden they’re shut down. My husband believes the music industry got the government in their back pockets — I’m starting to believe it; money talks, bullshit walks.

Damn, now how am I gone watch my Anime now? All those other video players were crapola!

Megaupload and it’s subsidiaries don’t actually own the content on their servers. They only provide off site storage for their users and the public at large. Just as YouTube or Vimeo does. MegaUpload offers to remove any copyright protected content off their servers, provided that the complainant can provide proof of either ownership or license to the protected content. For the US Justice department to blindly close down MegaUpload without proper notification is unconstitutional and smacks of Big Brotherism.