The indictment can be found here, the corresponding DoJ press release here. And someone listed up a few key points over at reddit.
>> ^entr0py:

I thought sites like MegaUpload play by the same rules as YouTube. That is, users upload the files freely without human review, and so there's inevitably a lot of copyright violations. And, in exchange, the site immediately caves to any DMCA takedown request without reviewing it's merits.
How is their business model any different than YouTube?

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>> ^grinter:

I'm not sure what to think about RT, but I'm pretty sure that a CNN anchor wouldn't have understood the term "donkey punch".


I'm pretty sure they all practice them at their cocaine fueled corporate orgies.

The DNS control mechanism of implementing SOPA and/or PIPA policies needs to get some more full explanation to Joe Public. Everything that the Content groups, the MPAAs and RIAAs etc. have done has been fatally flawed in that it can at best delay casual piracy, and usually even that is circumvented almost instantaneously. From what I can see, policing DNS would do no better than their other historical efforts in that regard.

This guy mentions that you can still type in an IP address and get to an infringing site. Maybe I am wrong or don't understand the full situation, but I would go a step further and say that this practice would simply result in US-based DNS servers being immediately replaced by DNS providers in other nations that fail to tow the SOPA/PIPA line. Joe User would get a quick walkthrough of changing his DNS provider through router or software settings, everybody would scramble for a brief period of time, and then the "sanctions" could be fairly safely ignored.

When the *AA's realize that the legislation they purchased with massive "campaign contributions" has no teeth, they would probably push (as in, push more dollars into the hands of lobbyists) for legal penalties to infringing sites beyond being de-listed from (US-based) DNS. If *that* were to actually happen also, it would simply chase ALL internet hosting outside of the US. The US could threaten trade sanctions or whatever against countries that turn a blind eye to infringing, but there would be so much of it going on that everyone could just balk at it and we'd be blowing a whole lot of hot air with jack behind it.

I think that the mainstream media needs a somebody with the balls to stand up and say that the cat is out of the bag on "protecting" Intellectual Property. For better or worse, it just isn't going to happen. The first group that accepts that and moves towards some new model is going to be way ahead of the curve in comparison to these dinosaurs that are trying to stitch a broken balloon together with needle and thread.

>> ^radx:

Remember who was behind MegaUpload: Kim Schmitz aka Kimble. I support file sharing, but that guy got rich by selling stolen content and customer data. Look up all the shit he pulled in Germany.
Good fucking riddance, I'd say.


Maybe that guy is a bastard that doesn't mean that we have to destroy the whole idea of the internet. This is an attack on the many not the few and the most talented of the many are fighting back.

If I had to choose between the FBI and Anonymous I could give plenty of reasons why the entire FBI should be disbanded.

>> ^JiggaJonson:

Why do I have to watch Russian news to get the truth about what's happening in the US ?


Meanwhile russians are asking themselves why they have to watch US news to get the truth about what's happening in Russia.

You should both be watching the BBC.

Rated PG. Awesome.

The MPAA can go suck a fossilized Puritan's wiener.

>> ^marinara:

they don't have to censor millions of pages. they just have to censor google search results


I'm sure that if the MPAA / RIAA types had free rein (even more than now, I mean) they would do exactly that. But what would actually result if that were actually to happen? OK, Google might wither and die, or at least the search portion of Google.

And then? In no time at all, the next Google would appear. PirateBay, isoHunt, RapidShare, whatever. Stop one, everybody moves to the next. Eliminating any or all of those would have exactly the same long-term reduction in piracy as Napster's demise did -- which is to say, no effect at all. Bit-by-bit policing/censoring the internet is just literally impossible.

I think that content creators need to wrap around the fact that the internet has fundamentally changed how people think about concepts like intellectual property, copyright, etc. Cat's out of the bag, the milk has been spilled, Pandora's box is open. Whoever comes up with the best business method that simply accepts that as unavoidable fact, good bad or indifferent, can make real steps towards finding the way forward.

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That's a good point about the deputy dad. I have a feeling that his expanded role might be on the edit-room floor. The pacing was very tight, and I bet they chopped a fair bit out to keep the momentum.

>> ^blankfist:

I'm adding some spoilers to the mix. You've been forewarned.
I agree, excellent homage to the kid ensemble films of the 80s. Each scene with the five or so boys never felt as if they were waiting for their line reading. Each of them were given things to dwell on that differed from the overarching through line of each scene. During important scenes the kids took time to be kids, called each other names, have their own conversation objectives, etc. Those scenes were rich. And I really wish nearly every blockbuster movie was made like that.
The story itself didn't live up to what the film delivered in tone and pacing. If you disagree, then let me ask you a question. What exactly did the deputy father do the latter half of the movie? During the first half, he sets himself up as a major player when he starts sleuthing around the train wreckage, goes against the sheriff's wishes to investigate further and ultimately gets arrested by the Air Force.
And then what did he do to advance the story forward? Virtually nothing. He contributes nearly zilch outside of freeing the little girl's father, and at that point they have a little "them" time to heal their rift. He was set up as a major role that advanced the plot in the beginning, then he was given busywork to finish out the movie while the children picked up where he left off.
I'm not sure yet if I like or dislike the scene where the alien picks up the protagonist kid, does some psychic exchange, then when the boy tells him "bad things happen, but you can live," the alien thinks, "yeah, that's sound advice," then gets the hell out of dodge. I don't know, am I just too cynical now? Maybe I am, because...
The movie was rated PG-13 even though it had cigarette smoking, pot smoking and hard liquor drinking in it. I don't think those things are deserving of an R rating, but the MPAA sure as shit does, but only when it's an industry darling's movie. If you're an indie filmmaker and put a cigarette in your movie you're pretty much guaranteed to get an R. Spielberg and Abrams do it, add some hard drinking, a couple shits, a fuck, guts splattering and a hell of a lot of focus on getting high, and the MPAA bends at the knees.
Also did you notice when the stoned guy passes out cold and the kids leave him, it appeared that they had to ADR in a new line for one of the kids: "Drugs are bad!"
But other than that, the film was great.

I'm adding some spoilers to the mix. You've been forewarned.

I agree, excellent homage to the kid ensemble films of the 80s. Each scene with the five or so boys never felt as if they were waiting for their line reading. Each of them were given things to dwell on that differed from the overarching through line of each scene. During important scenes the kids took time to be kids, called each other names, have their own conversation objectives, etc. Those scenes were rich. And I really wish nearly every blockbuster movie was made like that.

The story itself didn't live up to what the film delivered in tone and pacing. If you disagree, then let me ask you a question. What exactly did the deputy father do the latter half of the movie? During the first half, he sets himself up as a major player when he starts sleuthing around the train wreckage, goes against the sheriff's wishes to investigate further and ultimately gets arrested by the Air Force.

And then what did he do to advance the story forward? Virtually nothing. He contributes nearly zilch outside of freeing the little girl's father, and at that point they have a little "them" time to heal their rift. He was set up as a major role that advanced the plot in the beginning, then he was given busywork to finish out the movie while the children picked up where he left off.

I'm not sure yet if I like or dislike the scene where the alien picks up the protagonist kid, does some psychic exchange, then when the boy tells him "bad things happen, but you can live," the alien thinks, "yeah, that's sound advice," then gets the hell out of dodge. I don't know, am I just too cynical now? Maybe I am, because...

The movie was rated PG-13 even though it had cigarette smoking, pot smoking and hard liquor drinking in it. I don't think those things are deserving of an R rating, but the MPAA sure as shit does, but only when it's [edit] NOT an industry darling's movie. If you're an indie filmmaker and put a cigarette in your movie you're pretty much guaranteed to get an R. Spielberg and Abrams do it, add some hard drinking, a couple shits, a fuck, guts splattering and a hell of a lot of focus on getting high, and the MPAA bends at the knees.

Also did you notice when the stoned guy passes out cold and the kids leave him, it appeared that they had to ADR in a new line for one of the kids: "Drugs are bad!"

But other than that, the film was great.

watched This Film Is Not Yet Rated recently.....in conclusion, fuck the MPAA

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ABOUT THE MPAA
Who are your members?
MPAA’s members are the six major U.S. motion picture studios:
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Universal City Studios LLC
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

(from the MPAA website) Clear collusive activities going on there to squeeze out independents.

Wasn't there a film about the MPAA. "This Film is Not Rated" or soemthing like that.