Essays on MegaUpload

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I wish I had the time to write a full article regarding copyright, censorship, money laundry and artist enslaving. Since I do not, I'll just remind you that censorship is not something that happens in Chine or North Korea, it happens everywhere specially in the western countries.
It has come to my attention, today, another irrefutable example of censorship. but this time (I hope) people won't stand quiet.


I have bad news about our beloved MegaUpload.

Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.
The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. 
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apnewsbreak-workers-indicted-at-one-of-worlds-largest-file-sharing-sites-megauploadcom/2012/01/19/gIQAJPIRBQ_story.html


Site founder Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak he had commissioned a song from producer Printz Board featuring huge recording artists. They were shouting the praises of Megaupload.
“If UMG took down a video it has no rights to, then what we have here is exactly the sort of abuse that careless, overzealous, or malicious copyright holders can create by abusing a takedown law,”
http://torrentfreak.com/universal-censors-megaupload-song-gets-branded-a-rogue-label-111210/


And here's the video.... for now:


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