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What other downloading sites will be cut off in the next year?
If you use the Internet you've probably seen by now, that the U.S. Government (FEDS) shut down MegaUpload, Why cares ? Not me. But then BtJunkie.org shut down, without the Government saying they're going too, the feds didn't say anything about this torrent site. So what does this mean about the Internet, will there be others like Rapid-share, Pirate bay, KickAssTorrents, or any download site or torrent site that allows users to share files together ?
Will the U.S. Government censer everything on the Internet, or will the Internet be shut down ?
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavourite answer
First, MU was shut down because the Gov't is on Hollywood's dick. MU has been around for years, they could have been shut down before... Why now? Furthermore, RS is just as big, if not bigger than MU... Why weren't they shut down? Fileserve? Filesonic? The answer is simple. MU was about to unleash a project that would essentially destroy the music industry. Megabox would allow artists get paid when someone downloads their songs off MU. That would cut out the middleman (ie; Hollywood), and Hollywood couldn't have that.
Secondly, BTJunkie shut themselves down. Fileserve and Filesonic both restricted 3rd party downloads, many other filesharing (DDL) sites censored themselves, for fear that they would be next.
And they will. But piracy has never and will never disappear. Floppy disks, Napster, CuteMX, Kazaa, Limewire, DDL, BitTorrent, Usenet, I2P. It will never stop.