News - File-sharing firms clamp down in fear

[crossy]

Lold hard, Anyway back on topic. This seems about right (Why was MegaUpload really shut down? In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ) I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.)...

Ooh, I love a good conspiracy theory in the morning! So let me get this right - the big biz folks saw that they're were in danger of losing many sales (because surely there's few artists who'd turn down the chance to get 90% of sales revenue rather than what the biz pay them) so decided to raise some charges and get it shut down?

That said, this MegaBox sounds like a good deal all round - presumably because more of the revenue's going to the artist the pricing could be very "competitive".

Not the only reason for being on a top tier download package, but a large proportion I'd wager.

I remain to be convinced by that, since (a) it'd be laughably easy for the ISP's to identify who's doing this (and presumably kick 'em out for a clear ToS violation), and (b) last time I did a movie download via torrent ("Scarlet Pimpernel" in black and white - which apparently is out of copyright anyway), that didn't stress my connection then never mind the one I have now, which is 3x the speed, (not that I'm on a top tier package though).

Unless folks are going to tell me otherwise, I would have thought that a superfast connection (50Mb/s+) is only going to benefit you if you've got a LOT of these kind of torrent sessions going.

For me at least work requirements, Linux ISO's and Steam-downloaded applications are more of a driver for a fast connection. As far as I can see there's little difference between a 100Mb/s connection and a 10Mb/s one other than waiting times. So if you're patient then a "slow" connection is fine.

[Pancake]

Sounds like your small mind cant be changed then....

[Biscuit]

Well lets have some statistics to back up your claims?

[tomim]

megaupload..megadisaster. I think it's pretty impossible that those guys did not know that someone was after them. they must have received some complaints or some warnings..anyway, I admit that I am not exactly up to date with everything that happened but they had it coming.

[tomim]

Anywho, have you guys heard the news about that new alternative to megaupload and file sharing that's supposed to be secure, you know, within the law? I think there was mentioned something about audials.com but I really have no idea what's it about, I don't think there were too many details about it either; you think it's related to clouds or something? I know cloud storages are old news but some people started using them only recently (myself included ).

[tomim]

you guys don't seem very interested in this stuff I guess BUT, I found this today: http://www.mytechguide.org/11375/aud...a-cloud-rumor/ it's what I was telling you a while ago, Audials Anywhere is seemingly the name of the soft and it does have something to do with clouds, they are calling it a "personal media cloud" which enables you to share your files with other people via the internet. It't not megaupload but that is already old news I guess.