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Re:[EXPERIMENT] I attached a file to a tweet by igul222 on Sunday January 22, 2012 @10:36PM (#3498880)
I really don't understand what the author is trying to prove here. Countless sites let people upload and share free-form information (a few that come to mind: Dropbox, Gmail, Facebook) in ways that would be much easier for pirates to use than Twitter, and none of them are going to get shut down any time soon.

Yes, shutting down Megaupload and its kin isn't going to stop piracy. But I don't think that was ever the goal. As long as it reduces piracy by some measurable amount, which I think it will, then the censors will have succeeded.

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Re:[EXPERIMENT] I attached a file to a tweet by botolo on Sunday January 22, 2012 @11:25PM (#3499039)
I don't think this action will slow down piracy. The average user don't even know what's the difference between Megaupload or other cyberlocker websites. The user just (I guess) types what he wants on Google and gets some website with links to these cyberlockers.

This act, on the contrary, could help induce other websites to correct their conduct or could help induce potential developers to create such cyberlockers.

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