This is bad. Bad, bad, bad.

[heidi]

Megaupload 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!!

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[hllangel]

I had all of my fanvids stored there. Along with .zip files of pictures and such.

DAMN IT.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I hope they put it back at least for people to be able to download things they uploaded themselves. Because this is...

Overkill!

[hllangel]

The photos I have backed up. but a lot of the fanvids were uploaded before my last computer took a dive off the back of a truck. So I have all of them in iTunes versions, but not in better file-sizes.