Kim Dotcom: Megaupload will Return

This tweet came from Kim Dotcom - the founder and owner of the recent raided file hosting site, Megaupload. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), PIPA (Protect IP Act) are just one of the bills that were created in order to stop piracy and copyright infringement in the internet. They were made to act as police patrol focusing in guarding intellectual property and copyrighted materials (such as movies, games, ebooks, music, etc.). 

Unfortunately, these bills never passed because many people opposed. Maybe due to the fact that the coverage of those bills are way to broad that it might even cause invasion of privacy. Some also see the good impacts of P2P sharing of files. Since these bills never passed, Kim Dotcom is confident that Megaupload will return. 

Back in the day, my knowledge about the internet were limited. I haven't learned much of that yet. Due to curiosity, I discovered some things that were suppose to be illegal - piracy. Megaupload is one of the best downloading site (for me) next to Rapidshare. This is were I download most of my games and movie collection.

When I discovered using torrents for downloading, my vision about Megaupload begin to be bad. As you observe, in those kind of File Hosting site: they have download bandwidth (download speed) limit; you have to wait many seconds for you to download; number of parallel downloads (number of files the downloading at the same time) is limited; show ads/pop-ads upon download ----- if you are a free user. In short, if you are a free member, your have certain limitations in using their services. If you want to remove these limitations, you have to purchase their premium membership account.

Megaupload was not seized because of piracy, it's because of conspiracy. Don't be confused about the two, conspiracy is much higher than piracy. It's conspiracy because they were aware that they are breaking the laws. They use copyrighted materials to earn profit. They were luring people to purchase their premium account to download copyrighted materials (movies, games, ebooks, music) - considering that they have big file size. If you don't get how it works, they were using the uploaded copyrighted materials as their marketing strategy to gather sales. How do I say that they used it as marketing strategy? They don't comply to DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and mock. They were hiding copyright materials in their own search engine (I forgot the name, its either MegaSearch or MegauploadSearch, what ever! They have their own search engine). They also have this Top Download Files page were you can see the top downloaded files in their website but all of them are just lies and false. 

In summary, they were using copyrighted materials as a marketing tool to promote their premium services and gain revenue. They were mocking and ignoring most of the copyright complaints by the owners of the materials. They also provide false information to the authorities and continues to hide the copyrighted materials in their own search engines.

I no longer recommend subscribing with those kind of greedy website whose using the free-stuff uploaded by the users to earn profit. It was like piracy brought to a whole new level, you got the free-stuff "free" but then will redistribute it "not totally free" (they get revenues with the ads shown if you're a free user). Torrents (Peer-to-Peer sharing) are more efficient to use, free of charge and only certain precautions are needed.

Megaupload is coming back but it will never be the same as before. They can't fool people anymore. SOPA, ACTA, PIPA may be dead but as long as they are creating conspiracy, they will be shutdown. And also, many people has realized the goodness of using torrent than file hosting sites. Why use them if you can get them absolutely 100% free?