U.S. shuts down Megaupload.com, hacktivists retaliate

Speedster said:
I suppose the prevalent mantra of these anti-copyright activists (and users) is: "Why buy it if you can steal it?"
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Its the same with fake goods.People want to wear expensive name brands which are owned by some very rich individuals.The prices of these products are seen as a form of exploitation on the public.So people buy the fake alternative as way of getting back at those rich people.
 
I just recently learned about why Hollywood is where it is....

I always find History fascinating but must admit this one is very ironic(If thats the right word).

The Edison Movie Monopoly
The Motion Picture Patents Company vs. the Independent Outlaws

In December 1908, the motion picture inventors and industry leaders organized the first great film trust called the Motion Picture Patents Company, designed to bring stability to the chaotic early film years characterized by patent wars and litigation. The Edison Film Manufacturing Company, the Biograph company, and the other Motion Picture Patents members ended their competitive feuding in favor of a cooperative system that provided industry domination. By pooling their interests, the member companies legally monopolized the business, and demanded licensing fees from all film producers, distributors, and exhibitors.

A January 1909 deadline was set for all companies to comply with the license. By February, unlicensed outlaws, who referred to themselves as independents protested the trust and carried on business without submitting to the Edison monopoly. In the summer of 1909 the independent movement was in full-swing, with producers and theater owners using illegal equipment and imported film stock to create their own underground market.

With the country experiencing a tremendous expansion in the number of nickelodeons, the Patents Company reacted to the independent movement by forming a strong-arm subsidiary known as the General Film Company to block the entry of non-licensed independents. With coercive tactics that have become legendary, General Film confiscated unlicensed equipment, discontinued product supply to theaters which showed unlicensed films, and effectively monopolized distribution with the acquisition of all U.S. film exchanges, except for the one owned by the independent William Fox who defied the Trust even after his license was revoked.

Many of the early independents were resilient film exhibitors who ventured into production when they found their supply of film threatened. Carl Laemmle (Independent Motion Picture Company or IMP), Harry E. Aitken (Majestic Films), and Adolph Zukor (Famous Players) were among the pioneering independents who protested the Trust, and then laid the foundation for the Hollywood studios. Having entered the business through exhibition, they determined that they liked production better, and got out of the theater business as the nickelodeon boom ended around 1911.

As the independent outlaws flourished, the Motion Picture Patents Company was also hit with antitrust charges by the United States government. In October 1915, the courts determined that the Patents Company and its General Film division acted as a monopoly in restraint of trade, and later ordered it disintegrated. But clearly by the time the decision was handed down, the independents had already outmaneuvered the Trust. The Edison monopoly had taken a retrogressive stance to the innovative industry reforms introduced by the outlaws.

At a time when the American independents and foreign filmmakers were creating feature length movies, the Trust clung to the familiar short-film format. Generally speaking, the Patents Trust also resisted turning their stock actors into recognizable performers, while the outlaws like Laemmle and Zukor were developing the star system into a powerful marketing tool. Furthermore, by moving their studios out west, the outlaws were not only capitalizing on California's optimal year-round outdoor shooting conditions, they were also pioneering a division between the east-coast business headquarters and the west-coast production operation that became another trademark of the Hollywood studio system. Historians of early film have pointed out that each of these innovations originated within the ranks of the Patents Company. However the unwillingness of the Trust to adapt to the changes cleared the way for the rise of the Hollywood studio system while the Edison monopoly perished.
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Source http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edison_trust.htm

But if you Google, you can find much more information on how Hollywood avoided the law to become what they are today.
 
Garyvdh said:
Doesn't work for me.
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They have tried moving to a couple of different "sites" throughout this whole affair, only to be up for short periods before disappearing again.

I dont know if it's because of traffic volume or other(takedown) reasons.
 
McT said:
It seems like this will degenerate into a war of sorts with the US and the big entertainment industries funding them shooting down all who stand in the way of making big money. This is going to get ugly.
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the US government is bankrupt. they need money to make war 24/7/365. shame....
 
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