Welllllllllllllllllll, I get up this morning and read that the government shut down Megaupload last night. I'm sure that there is lots of nefarious activity going on....but REALLY? This all comes in the middle of all the hoopla surrounding the PIPA and SOPA acts. I'm sure you couldn't go anywhere on the Internets the other day without running into petitions trying to stop these bills....after all, even Wikipedia and other large sites were blacked out in protest the other day.
I could really launch into a rant here about "what has happened to free speech" and all that, but for our purposes here, let's examine the immediate impact: THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY FILES ON THIS BLOG. I used Megaupload because they were reliable, and didn't spam your system with malware or annoying pop-ups like Rapidshare or some of the others, which are even worse. I've never sold a file in my life, some of them I owned copyrights to (for goodness sake) and I even had the ENDORSEMENT of certain artists to place them here!!!
But all that doesn't matter. I worry about the future of this country, and the Internets as well, as our freedoms are stripped away one by one.
Currently, I was staying up nights working on new discs to share with you. They include the following:
TOM LEHRER RARITIES volume 5
SYNTHISTORY volume 2: HOOKED ON RADIOPHONICS
"GHOST RIDER's IN THE SKY"
HEY, MR. TIMELORD
THE COMPLETE-AS-POSSIBLE END-ALL BE-ALL BONZO DOG BAND
And there's even more than that! But you may never see these. My friends, I can honestly tell you this may just be the end of a very enjoyable and rewarding ride. We may tell our grandchildren about "the Internets" just like our grandparents tell us about 5-cent hamburgers and penny candy.
I am going to sleep on all of this, and see what transpires in the next few days. Otherwise, it's going to be a very tearful goodbye.
5 comments:
It was really low-down.
I read this morning that Congress has "suspended indefinitely" the SOPA and PIPA voting....? Is it a coincidence this lines up perfectly with taking down MU? I think not!
Hopefully it doesn't result in anything bad happening to us in the process.
To me, the Feds were going after the "big fish"! After all, they believe them to be guilty of racketeering, money laundering, and pirating into the hundreds of millions of dollars!
In the meantime, the average little, non-pirate guy is looking for a new file-sharing service! (that's not RS!) Any recommendations?
I wish I could think of one (at least one that had 1 gig limit for non-paying members).
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