There is a pretty simpley answer on why US authorities are taking down sites like MegaUpload. And it is below. Sites like this have gone under the radar until they became too big and too successful for their own good. In order to survive and pay bandwidth and space costs, they needed to make money. And pretending they do not know the users they pay for the uploaded content are uploading pirated content was a good enough strategy so far. Not anymore.
Actions like this don’t help. All they do is move the people towards a more controlled and restricted internet.
The irony is that we want accountability from our politicians, but not for ourselves, because we cherish our right to anonymously trash them.
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Sure, i’ll click your link, especially noticing the email is not sent by my registrar.
I’ve noticed the domain flickr.com expires november 11, 2011, after last year they renew it only for a year. Could Yahoo be so tight with money?
They’ve just fired Carol Bartz, the only CEO that did some good in the last 5 years for the company and Jerry Yang is sniffing around for the job. I feel sorry for Yahoo.
Facebook’s like could be the next bookmark manager. Save and tag and could be the replacement for del.icio.us.