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News: Megaupload shut down
Member Since: 11/2/2011
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Long as they don't touch Mediafire and Xtube.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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okay i've calmed down now
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Member Since: 5/15/2010
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OCCUPY SENATE!!!
Let's overthrow those bastards who don't represent the people of this country, They've lost touch with reality.
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Originally posted by rihannafan
okay i've calmed down now
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On to the next one lol
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Member Since: 12/7/2011
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Is this life?
SOPA is destroying me already
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Member Since: 8/21/2011
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They should have taken that ****** Fileserve instead of this.
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Member Since: 6/22/2011
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
Posts: 14,634
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They can't come up with a ****ing decent jobs plan, but they can waste time helping the entertainment industry? This is sickening...
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Member Since: 10/29/2010
Posts: 29,249
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Music stars in Upload of trouble
Swizz Beatz has Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kanye West and Will.i.am in hot water with their label by getting them to promote his site, MegaUpload. The CEO of the Internet company, Beatz — also a recording artist, producer and DJ — persuaded the stars to appear in a “Mega Song” video promoting his service, intended to send large media files. The catch is the music industry has been fighting against file sharing, accusing the services MegaUpload offers of supporting piracy. Beatz’s wife, Alicia Keys, has also promoted the site with her picture and a quote. Swizz had also asked Mary J. Blige, Kim Kardashian, Lil Jon and Macy Gray to promote MegaUpload. But after the starry promo appeared on YouTube last month, Diddy, Kanye and Will.i.am’s label, Universal Music Group, issued a “take-down notice” to YouTube, saying the artists’ performances were unauthorized. Their individual reps followed up, sources say. Mega-Upload fired back with a lawsuit against Universal to stop it from blocking distribution of the video. A Mega rep told us: “We have never received any word that any artist has [individually] filed a take-down . . . [we have] legally binding agreements with the performers that appear in the video . . . They promised that they had the rights to enter into that agreement and it’s not interfering with any third-party rights.” UMG and Diddy reps wouldn’t comment. West’s and Will.i.am’s reps didn’t get back to us.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/musi...#ixzz1jwP4F6tq
They are coming for Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys...
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Member Since: 8/1/2008
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Let's make #****SOPA trend on twitter like now.
I can not believe people are letting this happen
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Member Since: 11/13/2008
Posts: 4,129
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Originally posted by Monster
They can't come up with a ****ing decent jobs plan, but they can waste time helping the entertainment industry? This is sickening...
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They work to be elected. They don't work for us. They haven't in a long time.
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Member Since: 6/22/2011
Posts: 20,940
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Originally posted by DG1
Music stars in Upload of trouble
Swizz Beatz has Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kanye West and Will.i.am in hot water with their label by getting them to promote his site, MegaUpload. The CEO of the Internet company, Beatz — also a recording artist, producer and DJ — persuaded the stars to appear in a “Mega Song” video promoting his service, intended to send large media files. The catch is the music industry has been fighting against file sharing, accusing the services MegaUpload offers of supporting piracy. Beatz’s wife, Alicia Keys, has also promoted the site with her picture and a quote. Swizz had also asked Mary J. Blige, Kim Kardashian, Lil Jon and Macy Gray to promote MegaUpload. But after the starry promo appeared on YouTube last month, Diddy, Kanye and Will.i.am’s label, Universal Music Group, issued a “take-down notice” to YouTube, saying the artists’ performances were unauthorized. Their individual reps followed up, sources say. Mega-Upload fired back with a lawsuit against Universal to stop it from blocking distribution of the video. A Mega rep told us: “We have never received any word that any artist has [individually] filed a take-down . . . [we have] legally binding agreements with the performers that appear in the video . . . They promised that they had the rights to enter into that agreement and it’s not interfering with any third-party rights.” UMG and Diddy reps wouldn’t comment. West’s and Will.i.am’s reps didn’t get back to us.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/musi...#ixzz1jwP4F6tq
They are coming for Alicia Keys...
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GET HER FOR NOT PUTTING OUT PIIALS
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Member Since: 6/10/2011
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Member Since: 11/22/2011
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People, this has nothing to do with SOPA. They took it through already existing methods.
If SOPA were to be passed, MegaUpload would be the least of our worries.
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Member Since: 8/17/2010
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Member Since: 8/24/2011
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Quote:
Originally posted by Entalan
People, this has nothing to do with SOPA. They took it through already existing methods.
If SOPA were to be passed, MegaUpload would be the least of our worries.
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This is true, but I can't help it
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 11/16/2004
Posts: 28,450
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RIP Megaupload
72 minute moment of silence
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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I had no idea Swizz created Megaupload. They must be getting that big munny.
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Member Since: 8/1/2008
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Quote:
Originally posted by Entalan
People, this has nothing to do with SOPA. They took it through already existing methods.
If SOPA were to be passed, MegaUpload would be the least of our worries.
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You know damn well it's no coincidence that MU shut down just when SOPA is this close from being passed.
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Member Since: 8/23/2010
Posts: 16,089
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Stop talking about SOPA, it's not the same thing.
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Member Since: 8/24/2011
Posts: 7,544
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Originally posted by BnPac
Stop talking about SOPA, it's not the same thing.
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Right? LimeWire was shut down way before than MU smh
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