See, this is what sticks in my craw, what gets my goat, what pops my balloon, insert other non-offensive analogies here.
Seriously, the governments need to pick their battles instead of just holding up one guy and going, ‘see, were doing our job, this is why you pay us’. Megaupload are/ were, one of the best filesharing websites for me to get the TV shows and films I collect that aren’t on DVD, the ones I go for are mostly in the public domain anyway, having been out of copyright for long enough, or do they feel they should make, like, a few cents on everything ever made by human beings on this planet since the dawn of time?
Happy Birthday, for cryin’ out load, is copyrighted and every time you sing it, you are in violation and need to pay royalties! Why the hell don’t they start staking out birthday parties and leave a great sharing website that they probably make money from anyway, alone. Oh and while they are at it, why doesn’t the government actually shut down the government funded porn sights they use to catch the people they supposedly cant catch any other way.
Instead of shutting down the site, how come they don’t “catch” the guys who upload copyrighted material there instead of shutting it down so just the people who go there for stuff that isn’t illegal can continue to do so.
I am most probably naive in my tirade but, at least I am willing to call a spade a spade and I won’t hide behind simple-minded pettiness to prove my point!
PS, Hope they let me access aspiescentral.com from my cell ; ]