Feds Shut Down File-Sharing Website Megaupload

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39. Here's my problem with this:

Megaupload was not exclusively a "pirate hub", it was an information storage hub.

I had a great deal of material stored there. All of it was music that I myself had recorded. Some of it was recordings of live performances by other artists, but I always ask permission of the artists before posting the link. Some of it was my own music recorded at my studio. All of the material was intended to be shared and not sold. It was a networking and promotional tool.

I considered all of this material to be a portfolio of audio work that I have done over the years. It will literally take me days to re-upload all of this material and fix my webpage. The action by the Feds was completely out of line and from my vantage point is damaging my business as an artist and engineer.

Megaupload also had an agreement each time you upload a file warning about piracy and not sharing copyrighted material without permission from the rights owner, so they were covering their ass, so to speak.

I'm angry right now.

I'm also wondering about all of the people that had signed up, and paid for, legitimate storage. The Feds have broken the contract with those customers. Are they going to pay back the fees these folks paid? Return their files? This is bullshit.