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RichieD76

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And so it starts! SOPA hasn\'t even been made law already and there closing massive sites. The government going to arrest someone at google too? Because in the UK, if someone commits an illegal act and your seen to be either promoting or (google adds) effectively funding them!!!

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RichieD76

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Noooo... They have been SHUT DOWN. Including 18 other domain names. Seizure of $50m in assets and the US has issued 20 arrests warrants for the HongKong based file sharing site. The sites founders have been arrested in Auckland New Zealand

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RichieD76

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It\'s crazy. If they controled what was on there site, it would be invasion of privacy, keep it and it\'s piracy. I always say the end user who steals it is the pirate anyway. You download it illegally why the hell should the person who uploaded or hosted it be to blame.

Eg. You rob a shop...is it the shelf stackers fault they put it on the shelf....or the manager for letting you in the store? Neither obviously.

Oh an capt\'n...better change your avatar, planet of the apes invented human looking monkeys and they might sue your ass

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Capt'n Skunky

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The money laundering is their fault though, regardless of the other stuff.

It\'s okay for Wall Street to launder money, but heaven forbid a foreign company do it. World Police to the rescue! FUCK YEAH!

Oh an capt\'n...better change your avatar, planet of the apes invented human looking monkeys and they might sue your ass

Fortunately that is original art commissioned by myself and used with full permission of the artist. If they want to tangle with me, I say bring it!

I will not live in fear, despite my governments desperate attempts to force me.

Arrr!

Capt\'n Skunky

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The money laundering is their fault though, regardless of the other stuff.

I\'ll be honest I don\'t know what that\'s about? Any info to the specifics? If they have committed money laundering then yeah, throw them in the slammer. But I can imagine that\'s more of a individual person(s) issue, than a site issue? Either way I agree, banks launder billions a year worldwide i suspect

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If you read more about it, they weren\'t charged for allowing users to pirate, they were charged for benefiting from it, promoting it, and building their business around it, including ways to 'hide' what was going on.

I am all for Internet freedom, but anyone who has used Megaupload has to know how shady the things going on there were.

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Don\'t ask Don\'t tell also apply on the interweb it seems.

Its funny through, that a Hong Kong based server block IP in Hong Kong, which in the company words, to stop pirates in this region. IMO internet racism should among one of the charges against them . =P

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