Entertainment Industry Was Eager to Work With Megaupload

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March 26, 2012
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Considering the aggressive stance taken by the MPAA against Megaupload, one might be forgiven for thinking the Hollywood-backed group and file-hosting service were sworn enemies. But behind the scenes things were quite different, with companies including Disney, Warner Brothers and Fox courting Megaupload to set up content distribution and advertising deals.

mega logo “By all estimates, Megaupload.com is the largest and most active criminally operated website targeting creative content in the world,” said the MPAA in a statement issued immediately after Mega was shutdown in January.

As statements go, they don’t get much more harsh than that, so one might think that hostilities between Megaupload and the member companies of the MPAA are a long-standing thing.

But as we know, despite all the rhetoric the likes of the usually-aggressive Disney never sued the Hong Kong based file-hosting service, and instead opted to let the FBI do their work for them.

While this government-financed approach will have proven substantially cheaper than dragging Megaupload through civil court, some potentially embarrassing things would have inevitably come out in such a case – such as this selection of emails just obtained by TorrentFreak.

In an eyebrow-raising email penned by Disney attorney Gregg Pendola, the counsel contacts Megaupload not to threaten or sue the company, but to set up a deal to have Disney content posted on the Megavideo site.

Subject: Posting on Megavideo.com
From: “Pendola, Gregg”
Date: 8/13/2008 10:06 AM
To: love@megavideo.com

My name is Gregg Pendola. I am Executive Counsel for The Walt Disney Company. Certain properties of The Walt Disney Company have content that they would like to post on your site.

However, we are uncomfortable with a couple of the provisions of your Terms of Use that we feel may jeopardize our rights in our content. We were hoping that you would be amenable to reviewing a 1-page agreement we have drafted that we would like to use in place of your Terms of Use.

Is there someone I can contact to discuss this? Or someone I can email the Agreement to for review?

Thanks. Gregg

Gregg Pendola
Executive Counsel
The Walt Disney Company

In another email, Shelina Sayani, Digital Marketing Coordinator for Warner Bros, offers a deal to syndicate “exciting” Warner content to Megaupload’s Megavideo site.

Subject: Warner Bros. – Looking for Content Manager
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:55:50 -0800
From: Sayani, Shelina
To: demand@megavideo.com

Dear Megavideo,

I’m writing from Warner Bros., offering opportunities to syndicate our exciting entertainment content (e.g. Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Sex and the City clips and trailer) for your users. Could you please pass on my information to the appropriate content manager or forward me to them? Thanks so much for your time.

Shelina Sayani
WB Advanced Digital Services
3300 W Olive Ave, Bldg 168 Room 4-023
Burbank, CA 91505
818.977.4668

In a later email, Joshua Carver from Warner’s Advanced Digital Services department made inquiries as to how the company could save time by using RSS “to upload our content all at once.”

Subject: Media RSS Feed from Warner Brothers
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:38:49 -0800
From: Carver, Joshua
To: idea@megavideo.com

Hello Megavideo,

My name is Joshua from the Warner Bros. Advanced Digital Services department.
I would like to know if your site can take a Media RSS feed for our syndications.
We would like to upload our content all at once instead of one video at a time.

Thank you for your time and funny content,

Joshua D. Carver
Associate Marketing Services Specialist
WB Advanced Digital Services

Jonathan Karron, Director of Marketing at Turner Broadcasting System, contacted Megaupload suggesting a partnership to “promote some of Turner’s great properties” and “original programming.”

Subject: Promotion of Turner Broadcasting videos on Megavideo
From: “Karron, Jonathan”
Date: 5/7/2009 9:29 AM
To: sales@megavideo.com

My name is Jonathan Karron and I oversee digital marketing for tbs.com, TNT.tv and TCM.com. I’d like to talk to someone in editorial/marketing about your site and how we might be able to work together to promote some of Turner’s great properties and lineup of on Megavideo. I’ve attached some basic information on our websites for your review.

I’m unable to find any contact info you your site so can someone please email me or call me at the # below to start the conversation?

Best,
Jonathan Karron
VP/Digital Marketing
TBS/TCM/TNT
404-575-6855

For Fox, the interest in Megaupload wasn’t necessarily aimed at spreading studio content, but to utilize Megaupload’s considerable reach by setting up an advertising deal. In this email former Senior Director Matt Barash touts FAN, the Fox Audience Network.

Subject: Fox Ad Partnership
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:09:14 -0800
From: Matt Barash
To: sales@megaupload.com

I’m reaching out to see if you have a few minutes to discuss the recently launched Fox Audience Network.

FAN is now up and running and fully operational, utilizing best of breed optimization technology to bring cutting edge relevancy to the ad network landscape.
We are scaling rapidly and seeking the right 3rd party publishers to add as partners to our portfolio.

Please let me know if you have some time to chat this week about how we can work together to better monetize your inventory.

Best,
Matt

Matt Barash
Director, Publisher Development
Fox Audience Network

So as we can see, as recently as November 2010 member companies of the MPAA were making contact with Megaupload and trying to do business with the company. According to the authorities the investigation into Megaupload took two years, meaning that these contacts and the start of a criminal investigation could have been just weeks apart.

More on Kim Dotcom’s response to the US indictment is published in our feature article.

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Anonymous

1% controlling US society.

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- monkeyslap
  
  Spam. This is the second article you posted that same exact comment.
http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

For me it translates: “There are sane ppl inside the MAFIAA, unfortunately they don’t hold key positions.”
- Anonymous
  
  No, more like “There are sane people within the MAFIAA client portfolio…”
  
  The MPAA/RIAA/Ifpi/BSA etc are not the entertainment industry – they are more like the outsourced legal arm. Even if the entertainment industry wanted to drop the hunt for filesharers én másse, it is dubious whether they actually could by now.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7INJGYIHTTW5X2SMD6Q7C6KEP4 Geoffrey

There are two pragmatic steps that can be taken right now to take on online piracy. First, the legislative approach. Congress could pass serious, substantive legislation that targets servers overseas and creates an environment where it is difficult to harbor content illegally. The second approach would be for the tech community and Hollywood to get together and collaborate. Let’s figure out how both sides can create compensation for artists while allowing Silicon Valley to innovate.
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  lol… yes, because obviously the US can dictate what happens in other countries. No srsly, I just lol’d over your comment. It’s the typical MAFIAA propaganda filled troll. Congress can stop passing new draconian, censorship and useless laws and review copyright at its core to expand fair use to include non-commercial personal use. That’s as far as Congress can go.
  
  Hollywood can go eat shit. They aren’t interested in compensating anything and we have seen quite a few instances of this behavior. Silicon Valley has already given Hollywood – FOR FREE – several ways to monetize on their content. Hollywood seems to ignore or try to break all of those ways.
  
  Two pragmatic steps? Srsly? Been to Earth much lately?
  - BBS
    
    This proves that there is some accord between the content creators in Hollywood and the pirate distributors online. Accordingly there is some recognition in Hollywood that there are better ways of distributing content than the traditional methods. I think there should be fully encompassing legislation to strengthen IP and copyright protections online but it should address the concerns of all who are affected; consumers, tech companies and content creators. These efforts at outreach appear to be sincere attempts at discussing a partnership and evidence that we can all have our cake and eat it too.
    - http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
      
      I don’t know what do you mean by ‘pirate distributors’. There’s no such thing. There’s no reasonable accord when it comes to the MAFIAA, they always want more. More DRM, more restrictions, more windows. I will concede there are some rare attempts of opening up like Fox releasing that TV show globally but srsly, with 10 years delay and after passing terrible laws and copyright extensions?
      
      IP and copyright protections should aim at commercial exploitation of whatever work and I strongly agree with that. But it must allow mixing and derivative works like parodies, satires and whatever. And it should allow fair use such as file sharing for personal use. You see, they’ll still be protected and ppl will still pay like they already do even with all the works freely available online.
      
      Sorry BBS, I don’t see Hollywood or the rest of the MAFIAA cooperating, I see them being dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “I think there should be fully encompassing legislation to strengthen IP and copyright protections online..”
      
      Since no scientific evidence whatsoever support the fabricated thesis that online piracy constitutes a problem in the first place to neither society, creators, culture or the content industry’s current record revenues, there most certainly should not be any strengthening of IP and copyright protections online. What you personally and subjectively think is completely irrelevant to that question, since legislation is not based on your ignorant misconceptions.
      
      > “..but it should address the concerns of all who are affected; consumers, tech companies and content creators.”
      
      This proves that you do not understand what copyright is in the first place. Copyright is a concept that’s supposed to benefit the public alone, as in consumers. That’s the only relevant party who’s needs should be addressed. In reality, where the rest of us live, there exists no evidence that strengthening the copyright monopoly or keeping the non-profit parts in it, is needed, to best benefit the public’s and society’s culture welfare.
      
      Continuing to change your signature or repeating false Hollywood propaganda will have no relevance for any of these facts.
    - Anonymous
      
      ” I think there should be fully encompassing legislation to strengthen IP and copyright protections online…”
      
      Any such legislation which actually works would unavoidably destroy the internet itself long before it even reached the people copying and transmitting information in an “unauthorized” manner.
      
      So you see, the compromise you envision can not exist in physical reality.
      
      In truth, current legislation in the US has already gone far enough that my professional recommendation to anyone wanting to set up a legal online business would be “ensure it’s out of the reach of US jurisdiction”. And from what I’ve heard, just about every professional in the field recommends the same.
      
      Current legislation has already turned the internet under US control into the equivalent of a DMZ. There’s just no telling which sites will be impacted as collateral damage by the next round of what I can only describe as “cluster bombs” trying to take down “illegal sites”.
  - Anonymous
    
    And I add that I won’t be allowing MAFIAA a way into my wallet because I am doing to them what they want to do to this World.
    I censor you from my money !
- MadAsASnake
  
  Like SOPA and PIPA? Not in my name. Criminalizing large sections of the community won’t stop people sharing things. It idiocy.
  I think also, that you will find the tech industry far more willing to talk than MPAA / RIAA. Tell me, why should the tech industry try to work with people that are always trying to stuff unworkable laws that impose significant burdens on everyone but themselves through backdoors?
- Fredrika
  
  > “There are two pragmatic steps that can be taken right now to take on online piracy.”
  
  There’s no need for any pragmatic steps to take on online piracy, since no scientific evidence exists that support the thesis that online piracy is a problem in the first place.
  
  The need is for logical and correct response, which is to weaken the copyright monopoly both in length(a maximum of 20 years, scientific evidence supports a length between 5-14 years) and strength(remove the non-profit control all together, and also the monopoly part, and weaken the DMCA), so that the fascist companies behind Riaa and Mpaa learn that their claim are ridiculous and that they deserve absolutely nothing of what they demand.
  
  > “First, the legislative approach. Congress could pass serious, substantive legislation that targets servers overseas and creates an environment where it is difficult to harbor content illegally.”
  
  There’s no such thing as harbor content illegally. What’s illegal is some transference of information, that meet certain criteria.
  
  Secondly, what kind of delusions of grandeur do you have to suffer from, to believe that US law should have any jurisdiction overseas?
  
  > “The second approach would be for the tech community and Hollywood to get together and collaborate.”
  
  What are you saying? That because Hollywood are made up of weak fascist entrepreneurs that can handle themselves on the free market without a legislative monopoly, other successful entrepreneurs should team up with them, and donate money to Hollywood? How about we stay away from the planned economy thinking and let Hollywood make their money on their own, on the free market, just like everybody else?
  
  > “Let’s figure out how both sides can create compensation for artists..”
  
  So you are against the free market? You advocate some kind of a planned economy where artists are compensated for the tech industries work and efforts?
  
  > “..while allowing Silicon Valley to innovate. “
  
  Silicon Valley? Why does innovation have to take place in the US? And has someone suggested that innovation should be forbidden in Silicon Valley?
  - guest
    
    Wow, seriously, get a life.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “Wow, seriously, get a life.”
      
      Are you saying that reading news on the Internet, and also following comments from people, thinking about those comments and writing a quick little response, that points out all the flaws in those comments, is not having a life?
      
      Would that also apply to those who read newspapers on paper, and write letters to the editor, as also not having a life? You are basically saying that participating and involving one selves in political issues is not having a life? People should basically stop trying to influence politics, and just accept what some paid elite decides, regardless of if those decisions hurt society?
    - Anonymous
      
      Fredrika can certainly compose a better rebuttal that this troll. LOL!
    - Anonymous
      
      Ah, is that the new catchphrase when you don’t understand what was being written but still feel the need to contribute some criticism?
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7INJGYIHTTW5X2SMD6Q7C6KEP4 Geoffrey
    
    Pragmatic steps are necessary to take on online piracy because online piracy is costing Hollywood billions of dollars every year. That is from a Government Accountability Office report from last summer.
    
    The information is harbored illegally because websites allow bad actors and those with the intention of copyright infringement from downloading gigabytes of illegal content and then sharing it with everyone they know.
    
    I believe that if a rights holder holds a copyright in the United States they should have the grounds to pursue those rights in a U.S. court with due process. We live in a global economy where it is no longer possible to enforce intellectual property solely on our own shores.
    
    The business aspect has to be a part of it because we need the tech community to continue to create the search engines and social media of the future while continuing to protect copyrights that we have protected for generations. There is room for both and we, as Americans, should seek to pave a path for both to occur.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “Pragmatic steps are necessary to take on online piracy because online piracy is costing Hollywood billions of dollars every year.”
      
      Please stop spreading lies and false propaganda, Hollywood is currently making more money than ever before. There’s no scientific evidence whatsoever that supports the thesis that piracy is a problem.
      
      > “That is from a Government Accountability Office report from last summer.”
      
      That some government release a report does not equal that numbers in it are correct. The US government has already admitted that the numbers Hollywood supplies are bogus and fabricated, and no actual verifiable numbers exist that proves any losses for either their industry, or any harm to the US economy, culture or creators.
      
      > “The information is harbored illegally..”
      
      No it is not. Please stop spreading lies and false propaganda. As i said, harbouring information is not illegal. What’s possibly illegal is later transference of information, under some circumstances, not all.
      
      > “I believe that if a rights holder holds a copyright in the United States they should have the grounds to pursue those rights in a U.S. court with due process.”
      
      Nobody has questioned that. But that’s not an argument for why they should be privileged with a copyright monopoly in the first place.
      
      > “We live in a global economy where it is no longer possible to enforce intellectual property solely on our own shores.”
      
      The fact that we live in a global economy is in no way an argument for why US should dictate laws overseas. You can have your laws, and the rest of the world has theirs.
      
      > “The business aspect has to be a part of it because we need the tech community to continue to create the search engines and social media of the future while continuing to protect copyrights that we have protected for generations. There is room for both and we, as Americans, should seek to pave a path for both to occur.”
      
      The relevant part is that society does not need Hollywood.
      
      Secondly, there’s no argument in there for why the copyright monopoly is needed in the first place, or why is has to look the way it does today, regarding time and strength.
      
      Thirdly, we, as Americans? The majority of the people of the world are not Americans, and the US is not the biggest economy in the world, so what best suits your needs regarding the copyright monopoly might not be what’s best for the rest of the world, and that is something that you simply have to accept and live with, unless you do suffer from delusions of grandeur.
      
      Finally, your arguments do not speak on behalf of the American citizens and what’s actually best for them, their society, culture and creators, your arguments are well known and they only address what’s possibly best for the large monopoly holders, as in being excluded from the free market, but their interests are not necessarily what best benefits the American citizens, culture or creators.
    - http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
      
      Pragmatic steps are necessary to take on online piracy because online piracy is costing Hollywood billions of dollars every year.
      
      That has been pretty much debunked and even made fun of ($8billion iPod from TED.com). Please provide citations with proper methodology described and not some 1 download = 1 lost sale stupidity.
      
      …the intention of copyright infringement from downloading gigabytes of illegal content and then sharing it with everyone they know.
      
      Seems to be a rather common and socially accepted behavior. Care to criminalize the entire population?
      
      We live in a global economy where it is no longer possible to enforce intellectual property solely on our own shores.
      
      We also live in a world where each nation has their own sovereignty. Just because it’s infringing in your country doesn’t mean it’s not in another.
      
      The business aspect has to be a part of it because we need the tech community to continue to create the search engines and social media of the future..
      
      While you keep trying to break those because you, the MAFIAA, refuse to evolve. Not to mention you’ll be using these for free as always.
    - Anonymous
      
      I believe that if a rights holder holds a copyright in the United States they should have the grounds to pursue those rights in a U.S. court with due process.
      
      Backpedaling a little bit, are we? This directly contradicts what you said about targeting overseas servers.I think you’re confused.
    - Bloaxor
      
      @Ninja
      
      “Seems to be a rather common and socially accepted behavior. Care to criminalize the entire population?”
      
      Laws can only exist if people follow them. [/addtoargument]
    - http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
      
      @Bloaxor
      
      Laws can only be effective if people agree with them. Murder is forbidden by law because it’s socially condemned. There’s this place in Scotland where Archery classes are mandatory by law for the ones that turn 16. No one follows this law.
    - http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee
      
      US Movie Market Summary 1995 to 2012
      
      1995 $5.29 Billion
      1996 $5.59 Billion
      1997 $6.51 Billion
      1998 $6.77 Billion
      1999 $7.30 Billion
      2000 $7.48 Billion
      2001 $8.13 Billion
      2002 $9.19 Billion
      2003 $9.35 Billion
      2004 $9.27 Billion
      2005 $8.95 Billion
      2006 $9.25 Billion
      2007 $9.63 Billion
      2008 $9.85 Billion
      2009 $10.65 Billion
      2010 $10.47 Billion
      2011 $10.20 Billion
      
      Hmm you say billions lost? Doesn’t look that way to me. Go spew your worthless numbers somewhere else retard.
    - Tom
      
      @Andrew Lee
      Your numbers are also kinda worthless too.
    - Anyone
      
      while the numbers lack a source they follow the same trend you can read everywhere: the movie industry is booming despite (or possibly because) piracy
    - Tom
      
      It’s not just that the number lack a source that make them worthless. It’s the fact that there is so much that they don’t take into account. Inflation and the current size of the movie industry (more money but perhaps a lot more mouths to feed) for example.
      
      Also the numbers don’t say anything about loss. It doesn’t follow that because the movie industry is worth $10.20 billion that piracy isn’t hurting it. Looking at the industry as one whole $10.20 billion might seem like a lot but we all know that the industry consists of many entities and people.
    - Lamarcus Small
      
      “Pragmatic steps are necessary to take on online piracy because online piracy is costing Hollywood billions of dollars every year…”
      
      I’ve stopped reading after that sentence.
    - Anonymous
      
      Wait…you are actually basing your argument on a report which the Government accountability Office themselves debunked???
      
      Um, no.
      
      In fact, every serious scientific study has disproven the claim that filesharing and infringement costs the industry as much as a nickle in real effect.
      
      In fact, the industry keeps on publishing reports which do not pass peer review but by extension claim they are losing, globally, over 42 times the global Gross National Product. 42 times the amount of wealth produced by the world each year(!)
      
      THAT is the basis of your argument?
      
      Seriously. Go sell that on some street corner. If you package it with enough hard drugs it may be palatable to some.
    - Tom
      
      “In fact, every serious scientific study has disproven the claim that filesharing and infringement costs the industry as much as a nickle in real effect.”
      
      “Pantene Pro-V Extra Straight Shampoo is scientifically proven to be three times smoother after three washes”
      
      If you are gonna make a statement like that, at least provide some evidence. Otherwise, your statement is about as factual as the one made by Pantene Pro-V.
      
      Unless you include pseudo science, to my knowledge there have been no true scientific studies into the effects of piracy.
      
      The effects of piracy can be truly measured by honest data from pirates. An example is from the poll on the front page of the following site.
      
      http://www.torrentfunk.com
      (As mentioned previously, screen shot already taken and used as evidence on a few other sites.)
- Anonymous
  
  that targets servers overseas
  
  What??? Like invade another country? Overstepping your bounds a bit, don’t you think?
  
  Maybe within their own borders, but to target overseas servers, in another country would be akin to an act of war. Or do you just mean cyber-terrorism?
- Kr0nZ
  
  Megavideo already showed how both parties can make money, but the big Bosses at the Mafiaa didnt want to relinquish any of their control.
  they want 100% control or noth… well actually they just want 100% control and thats it, and if you try and take just 1% of that control away from them they throw false accusation around
  - Retaliator
    
    Personally I don’t want the corporate entertainment parasites to make money given how they miss-use it. I want them to die and I know for sure that they will because they crossed the red line a while ago. There is no turning back.
- Noneone
  
  Both have failed. An example of the legislative was SOPA/PIPA, and the tech was DRM.
- Anonymous
  
  We’re already at the point where US legislation has turned the US internet into the equivalence of a DMZ. There’s no way to operate a legal online business when there is no guarantee you won’t get shelled by accident by the next action taken against “online infringement”.
  
  Your “pragmatic steps” aren’t.
  
  There is no possibility to stop online infringement save by shutting the internet down altogether. SOPA caused numerous major tech companies to actually abandon the Business Software Alliance. Not because said companies thrive of piracy in any way but simply because they realized the unavoidable ramification of the legislation.
  
  China has realized that any further shuttering or crackdown on their unwanted online residents will cause the end of China’s economy. As a result, online infringement and dissidence have both been skyrocketing with no end in sight. You want to go any further you had better be prepared for the consequences. Namely shutting down every IT company which doesn’t move overseas as an unintended but unavoidable result.
  
  There can be no peace between silicon valley and the content industry to coexist when the minimum demands the content industry has is that the tech industry for all intents and purpose must cease to exist.
Anon1337-1

Did I just read that MAFIAA got owned by the people they are trying to protect?
Jeff Bekcer

So the whole seizure was a sham. Looks like the FBI needs some advice when it comes to “enforcing” copyright. The FBI really shouldn’t police copyright, have them arrest those rapists, child molesters and murders. They shouldn’t waste their time on 16 year old Steven White from Alabama that downloaded Metallica’s and Korn’s discography.
- Anonymousie
  
  The FBI is there to serve the government not protect the interests of its citizens…
  - kode
    
    well said.. these agencies exist to serve dirty system not people wich pay taxes , bills etc , what irony we all pay our persecutors , maybe in one day we will wake up and refuse to pay , today states become maffia and forced people to pay “taxes for protection” otherwise they use military and prosecute people
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  First and last agreed….. second category, not because ‘child molesters’ are just the new ‘boogie men’ who have always been around and are just being used as scapegoats for societal problems now that heterosexuals outside of marriage, interracials and homosexuals cannot be used for that.
Anonymous

i think it’s hard to make a judgement when the replies are not posted, if there were any, to those emails. i said when the raid first happened that it was because Kim was offering/going to offer better services than the entertainment industries were prepared to themselves. they couldn’t admit that what they had been doing was wrong, that Kim was going to make money from the services and saw just one way out, the same one way out they always see. shut down, sue, break. what it really shows is that those in control of the entertainment industries have less of an idea of what the people want and how to supply it than my arse!
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http://twitter.com/Mathew30 Mathew Lisett

just in case others didn’t know this, when the MPAA was founded in the 40′s it was known as the MPPDA. and even back then it was taken to court over its monopolizing ways, and the other people were in fact other movie companies. so just over 70 years later and nothing has changed. so not a shock that mpaa are trying to control everything and take down anybody that they feel makes more money and business than them and destroying any future hope for other industry companies. and theres also only about 6 companies that are members of the MPAA.
Anonymous

This feels like what happened when the radio and was first invented! :P
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tonyj

More evidence the Justice Department has lost the case from the get go. The U.S. only succeeded in destroying a Billion dollar company. Hurray for capitalism.
- kode
  
  capitalism is a extreme system like fascism , comunism all of these systems prosecute and manipulate people , in these systems justice , law is just a joke , freedom is just a word , these systems are maded just to serve few peoples
  capitalism is a extreme becouse is not build to help people , is build to enslave to waiste resources , to distroy everything in the name of money , in this system human and everything is reduced at money , everything is for sale including people lives , privacy , rights etc etc
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    True, capitalism to excess and communism to excess are bad. The best thing is a balance between those things, but unfortunately there are too many powermongers who shit their pants at the thought of that like the Illuminati from Deus Ex.
monkeyslap

Did mega upload try to get back in touch with these companies and try to work out a business deal as suggested in the emails?

These emails show some companies trying to evolve with the internet which is contradictory to the lawsuits they file and politicians they lobby to change the laws in their favor.

Confusing to me. :P
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  These are low-level peons who are suggesting these things. If they TRULY wanted to move on into the digital age, they would have Chris Dodd out there talking with MegaUpload AND would drop the whole “I WANT TO BE ABLE TO REMOVE FILES AND ALL LINKS TO THOSE FILES!” bullcrap.
  - monkeyslap
    
    Now I understand and totally agree with you. Thanks for clearing that up.
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That Fox guy “reached out” and gave us the creeps with his “best of breed” corporate speak. Maybe he found George Orwell’s 1984 NEWSPEAK inspirational?
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Funny that Richard O got one of similar from Warner Brothers re TVShack!
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First of all I do not believe that socalled piracy harms the media industry. Secondly I do not get why that industry is allowed the power to rewrite laws how they see fit. As a european I also wonder how american lobbyists can control the laws of companies outside Us jurisdiction.

“To me it seems that if Disney can own the rights to fairytales that are more than 500 years old then something is wrong.” – Some chinese dude.
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