His PR people and supporters are working OT.
Hope they know the checks won't clear.
Hope they know the checks won't clear.
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You can't rob banks, then expect everyone to let you be a banker. Fuck him.
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People that think that it has anything to do with something that was announced not long ago or with a song that was posted a month ago are just stupid.
An investigations like this takes a long time, at least a year or longer. And then after the investigations the planning for the arrests and seizures of bank accounts and cars etc, takes months and months of planning as well.
So no, this had nothing to do with the stupid video, nor the plans for megabox.Comment
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You have to admit, that Tech Crunch post has quite a few people thinking out loud (and quite a few scratching their heads).Comment
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From what I understand this investigation has been going on since 2010 long before this service was ever even mentioned. Perhaps they decided to make the busts now instead of a few months from now before the service was launched, but I highly doubt it is the reason behind it.Comment
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The two things are not mutually exclusive
years of prep time that is rushed at the end in response to the new service being announced is still a valid possibility.
And judging from some of the flaws in the complaint there was some rushing to get this shit out the door.
seriously if this was years in the coming, want to explain why they could have waited say 2-3 months to properly plan out how to protect all the independent artist who are getting fucked out $7-9 grand a year from the current program BEFORE they started this take down.
don't you think the fed saying the site is up for all the legitimate user of the site, but if you upload any pirated content we now are logging your ip address info, that all the piracy would have stopped cold too, of course it would have.Last edited by gideongallery; 01-26-2012, 03:57 AM.
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but that not what you said
2-4 grand in legal fees just to have the right to post your shit, in addition to all the cost to profession produce an mp3/music video/etc is a pretty big risk for most independent musicans.There are plenty of legitimate and wonderfully put together hubs that allow artists to profit from their work directly. CDBaby, Bandcamp and even iTunes and Amazon allow you to sell your own work without any labels being involved.
and it just stupid to require a paper label just to sell your shit on itunes.
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Pirates who then try to turn legit is nothing new, much like the mafia moving into respectable business.
Why didn't they try this business model from the start? Because then they wouldn't have become one of the top 15 sites on the internet. Grab traffic from piracy first, then dictate terms.Comment
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Sounds like someone is making up excuses.Comment
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Precrime.I'm out.Comment
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