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January 29 2012

fwugradiation: notasenator: demonoflight: targlaciare: oceanmaster: diarrheaheartfailure: The Reason Megaupload was taken 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.”>”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.”>”We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free,” Dotcom outlined. “Yes that’s right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works.”https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq W E L P I’M LEGIT MAD NOW OMG SERIOUSLY!? …Wow. Just wow. The “Megakey business model” was adware on people’s computers that replaced legit ads on sites with their own so they could make more money off of piracy. Megakey was actually an existing, but what they were doing was hijacking your computer to make money off any site you visited that had ads on it. If you went to MSPA, for exampe, it would block the Project Wonderful ads and replace them with MU ads, so Dotcom and crew would get paid for you reading MSPA instead of Andrew. Also, your source there is an article quoting only the owner of MU, a criminal convicted multiple times of computer fraud, making untested and unverified claims. Try to be a little more skeptical, everyone?  Here is an Ars Technica article that looks at the unsealed indictment from federal court and lays out what the U.S. is accusing MU of: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars Hahaha wow, that’s skeezy as fuck and Megaupload basically deserves everything coming to them

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The Reason Megaupload was taken down



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>”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.”

>”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.”

>”We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free,” Dotcom outlined. “Yes that’s right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works.”

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq

W E L P

I’M LEGIT MAD NOW

OMG SERIOUSLY!?

…Wow.

Just wow.

The “Megakey business model” was adware on people’s computers that replaced legit ads on sites with their own so they could make more money off of piracy. Megakey was actually an existing, but what they were doing was hijacking your computer to make money off any site you visited that had ads on it.

If you went to MSPA, for exampe, it would block the Project Wonderful ads and replace them with MU ads, so Dotcom and crew would get paid for you reading MSPA instead of Andrew.

Also, your source there is an article quoting only the owner of MU, a criminal convicted multiple times of computer fraud, making untested and unverified claims.

Try to be a little more skeptical, everyone? 

Here is an Ars Technica article that looks at the unsealed indictment from federal court and lays out what the U.S. is accusing MU of:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars

Hahaha wow, that’s skeezy as fuck and Megaupload basically deserves everything coming to them

(Source: diarrheaworldstarhiphop)

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