Comments on: Megaupload, Universal and the DMCA-less Mega Song Takedown

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:31:00 +0000

The truth is in the below link, thanks DoJ for illegally destroying our files on Thursday:

By: Michael Ham: A Guide for Using SOPA & PIPA to Kill Scientific Debate — You’re Welcome | Articled In

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:07:06 +0000

[...] Lest you think I’m engaging in hyperbole, there is strong evidence that Viacom and many other studios uploaded their own content to YouTube using public wireless networks and doctored them to look pirated. More recently, Universal Music forced YouTube to take down a song they disagreed with by apparently claiming the ‘Mega Song’ infringed on their copyright, even though they clearly didn’t own the copyright. [...]

By: A Guide for Using SOPA & PIPA to Kill Scientific Debate – You’re Welcome » Dr. Michael Ham

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:48:42 +0000

By: SOPA is more dangerous than you may think | MoarCodePlz dot com

SOPA is more dangerous than you may think | MoarCodePlz dot com — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:25:40 +0000

[...] This is the result of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, or the currently existing legislation that is used to combat piracy. Under the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions, the owners of a site are not liable for site content. However, if infringing content is found on a site, the owners can be notified and are thereby responsible for removing the content. If the owners do not act accordingly within an allotted time, then further legal actions may be pursued. This is a pretty reasonable approach to quelling piracy and it seems to work very well. Under SOPA though, YouTube could be shut down for a single eight-year-old singing a karaoke version of No Quarter by Led Zeppelin. The safe harbor provisions that the DMCA touts would be done away with, making it so that all site owners are entirely responsible for the content their site contains and in many cases the content their site links to. Not only are the safe harbor provisions thrown out, but the ramifications for an infringing site range from DNS black-listing (see: one of the many things China does with its amazingly free and open internet) to stopping all payments to the infringing site via freezing accounts with Mastercard, Visa, and others (see: what was already illegally done to Wikileaks). While this is an incredibly bad idea considering what sites based on user-generated content have accomplished, it wouldn’t be such a horrendous idea if the organizations that would be the primary wielders of the “censor baton” weren’t already abusing DMCA takedown notices. [...]

By: Megaupload Video Reinstated, Universal Says “You Can’t Touch Us” | Conspiring Pirates

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:59:28 +0000

[...] to reduce instances of copyright infringement, YouTube created the Content ID system (further analysis in respect of this case from Ben Jones) which gives copyright owners the opportunity to take a number of actions should [...]

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By: Spamazon

Spamazon — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:03:00 +0000

Yes, you are supposed to compose your own music.

By: Rob8urcakes

Rob8urcakes — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:04:00 +0000

Google’s original motto was “Do no evil”, but thanks to it’s profiteering greed and attempts to monopolise it’s footprint on the web via its ownership of Youtube, Skype and many other previously ‘decent’ and popular sites we should now re-brand Google and all it’s subsidiary’s with the motto of “We’ll do your evil”.

And why so? Because the cash-cow that’s Google wants to monetize everything digital and offer services you used to like – but since Google bought it, the service is ALWAYS WORSE.

False CopyWrong claims on Google-owned YouTube are honoured immediately, but legitimate complaints are ignored or take too long to rectify.

Now Skype charges you for un-connected, un-delivered texts and you run out of credit or feed Google-owned Skype more cash.

In both cases it’s too much hassle to fix thier shit, and it’s easier (and cheaper) to abandon Skype, YouTube and simply avoid Google wherever possible because their new motto should indeed be “We’ll do your evil”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:22:00 +0000

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