One of the biggest file sharing, Megaupload has been taken down by FBI because they take financial advantage from illegal files that are being shared by their users and also from advertising (up to $175 million). Even though they have signed up DMCA agent with the US government, provide an abuse tool, and given rightsholders access, they are still taken down by the FBI.
This event doesn't stop like that. While most users that have Megaupload premium account can't do anything about it, Anonymous group launched a retaliation attack to several US sites, such as DoD and Universal Music Group. They will launch another attack on MPAA and also on White House, and probably many US sites in the future.
If Megaupload can be taken down so easy, what about the others? There are still a lot of file sharing services out there that have the same (or similar) business process with Megaupload, but they are still operating at this moment.
Showing posts with label SOPA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOPA. Show all posts
Friday, January 20, 2012
Online Again
Some websites has came back to operational after they shut down their services for 24 hours due to anti-SOPA campaign. The campaign itself demonstrated what would happened if those websites are taken down due to intellectual or patent infringement just because one of their users post an information on that site.
It's really frightening to imagine what would happened about Internet's future if this bill is approved by the Congress? Innovation will start to decrease and Internet will not be the same as it is right now.
It's really frightening to imagine what would happened about Internet's future if this bill is approved by the Congress? Innovation will start to decrease and Internet will not be the same as it is right now.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
SOPA
Many web sites are closing their operations due to SOPA that are now being reviewed by the US Congress, including Wordpress and Wikipedia. They are two of many web sites that disagrees with SOPA along with many other organizations around the world.
It seems that if this bill is passed, the US government will have an ultimate power to control many web sites and behave like China's great firewall. We will have to wait until the review process is done and see the results.
For those who wanted to prepare for the worst, please have a look on DeSopa (DNS Evasion to Stop Oppressive Policy in America) plugins for Firefox
It seems that if this bill is passed, the US government will have an ultimate power to control many web sites and behave like China's great firewall. We will have to wait until the review process is done and see the results.
For those who wanted to prepare for the worst, please have a look on DeSopa (DNS Evasion to Stop Oppressive Policy in America) plugins for Firefox
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