Varför togs MEGAUPLOAD ner av FBI?

- DÄRFÖR togs Megaupload ner av USA!

Why was MegaUpload really shut down? In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll.



25 Januari 2012
Something that would rock the music industry to its core. I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.
 
MEGABOX: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2011/111221airvinyl




"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak. 

- Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads."


 

"- The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."

Story by: SHAUNA MYERS + covered by: FORBES... (FORBES LINK)

- US shuts down MegaUpload as founders are arrested

Published 20 January 2012 08:56 - Al Jazeera

The US government has shut down one of the world's most popular file-sharing websites for allegedly violating piracy laws, as police arrested MegaUpload.com's co-founders and another staff member in New Zealand.

The suspects are accused of engaging in a scheme that cost copyright holders more than $500mn in lost revenue and of generating over $175m in proceeds from subscriptions and advertising, Al Jazeera's Matt Moore reports.

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Alarm spreads among file-sharing websites

Published 24 January 2012 19:17 - Al Jazeera

Alarm is spreading among file-sharing websites in Europe following the shut-down of Megaupload and the arrest of its founder in New Zealand. FileSonic, the UK-based file storage and sharing site, on Tuesday voluntarily disabled their file sharing functionality.

Efforts to balance the rights of copyright holders against the freedom to exchange information is proving difficult as the US Justice Department and FBI buckle under pressure from powerful voices in the US film and entertainment industry. Simon McGregor-Wood reports from London.
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Editors Notes
UnderMattans redaktör löser världens problem!


- Precis som inom vilken annan gangsterverksamhet som helst så avskyr film & musikbranschens ägare konkurrens. 

Vanligtvis brukar det då heta att man skall ÖKA KONKURRENSEN genom att förändra marknaden till kundernas fördel.

Detta betyder i klartext för det mesta  att man på ett eller annat sätt tänker säkerställa sig ett 100% monopol genom dolda kriminella handlingar. 

Om Megabox slagit igenom för fullt hade det säkert inneburit samma sak för skivbolagen som en  vattendriven bil hade betytt för oljebolagen. 

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- Megaupload och dess associerade domäner (som megavideo.com) var en av planetens största sajter, med uppskattningsvis 4 procent av all internettrafik i världen och mer än 50 miljoner sidförfrågningar om dagen.

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