This is bad. Bad, bad, bad.
Jan. 19th, 2012 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiMegaupload shut down, founders indicted.
ETA now that I can think for a moment:
1. I wonder if the timing was coincidental or purposeful. But either way, it can backfire because clearly, if they can shut down a site that has a lot of legitimate, noninfringing usages under current law why do they need SOPA or PIPA?
2. Even in a post-Napster universe, especially where so much storage is done "in the cloud", what will the impact of this case be on/from the Sony Betamax case?
Am off to a seminar on copyright law tonight - I hope this is one of the topics up for discussion!!
ETA now that I can think for a moment:
1. I wonder if the timing was coincidental or purposeful. But either way, it can backfire because clearly, if they can shut down a site that has a lot of legitimate, noninfringing usages under current law why do they need SOPA or PIPA?
2. Even in a post-Napster universe, especially where so much storage is done "in the cloud", what will the impact of this case be on/from the Sony Betamax case?
Am off to a seminar on copyright law tonight - I hope this is one of the topics up for discussion!!
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Date: 2012-01-19 09:11 pm (UTC)Have been discussing ALL week in Emerging Media and Public Administration courses.
Honestly. Just. How? I don't understand.
NOTHING MAKES SENSE!
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Date: 2012-01-19 08:04 pm (UTC)DAMN IT.
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Date: 2012-01-19 08:05 pm (UTC)Overkill!
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Date: 2012-01-19 08:07 pm (UTC)Also face and palm will likely be getting better acquainted.
::sigh::
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Date: 2012-01-19 08:17 pm (UTC)And the timing was not a coincidence, I am sure. I think it will rebound on them. If they can shut down all of MU under current laws (clearly without taking the betamax case into consideration) then why need SOPA or PIPA?
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Date: 2012-01-20 03:19 pm (UTC)I'm not really ok with thinking about this now....
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