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Originally Posted by FlexxAeon
MU thought they were either legit, above the law, smarter than the law, or a mixture thereof. not necessarily the same as a drug boss who KNOWS they are breaking the law,... a primary function of their business is to avoid detection.
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Maybe they are legit. They have not been found guilty of anything.
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feds taking down MU was just as much about the message as it was about stopping the crime. and, unless they are idiots, the people with the same 'business models' as MU will hear the message and restructure or GTFO
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The mistake is to assume that if you take out a file sharing site you're going to stop people sharing files. It simply will not make a difference to piracy. But that's beside the point anyway; it's quite obvious that a lot of people cheering about this were simply jealous of the money made by the people running MU.
I'm wondering if MU was shut down less because of Megaupload, which is AFAIK is no different to many other fileshare sites, and more because of Megavideo. I personally never ever used MU but used MV frequently.