What about any legal hosted files - and apparently there were PLENTY.
This is what worries me as well.
Let's take for example the imagination of Indies *only* using Filesharing servers for the distribution of thir games. Just imagine. I know this is a bad example, but just try to imagine it.
Closing them (the filesharing servers) would effectively eradicate any form of distribution for them. They woul have to look out for deals with *real* publishers.
So who would profit from this anti - copyright-violation act of closing filesharers in this example : The publishers. And the big companies who don't want ny competition by Indies.
I still know that this is a bad example, but I couldn't make up any better rioght no to express what I mean : What I'm concerned about is how privately created files - like those really cute photos friends of mine take from their cats and show them around in another forum I'm in - are simply deleted as well. This is another form of copyright violation, similar to the "Copyleft" thing we know from Linux et. al :
Copyright oriented companies let privately owned copyrighted material become deleted because it simply is among pirated material !
How dare they ? How dare they let files be deleted of which they do NOT have any copy right upon ! They simply didn't bother to ask any individual who us using the filesharers to distribute their cat pictures ! They just deleted them no matter what !
And this behaviour shows where their priority is : In protecting the copyright holding companies, and NOT in protecting PRIVATE copyright holders !
How are my friends supposed to show everyone their cat photos if everything is shut down ? Okay, they could use forums, but not all forums support that. And web space … There is still a huge number of people who just don't bother thinking of buying web space. they just don't want any hassle and not at all having to hink about server securit.
You are totally missing the point - WE ALL AGREE that those guys were benefitting from illegal activity and deserved to be shut down.
You have conveniently ignored multiple times questions about how kids (literally) are getting charged huge crimes, grandmothers facing felonies and multi-million dollar fines, how politicians who seek only to block activity of ANY sort to score points suddenly find instant agreement in the face of millions of dollars of kickbacks, how armed police raids raids have been conducted on non-server personal homes, and on and on.
We agree on this one example in general, but the overall and repeated corporate access to militarized action by the government is extremely troubling … to the point where it has a strong anti-piracy zealot (me) questioning everything.
The end does NOT justify the means … it just doesn't.
I agree with you. Completely.
@txa1265
Dont bother some people will wake up one day and realize what SOPA/PIPA and other laws are basically for corporations and not us.
Done by politicians who are either IN these corporations are have "good friends" who are ...