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!!
