Ron Paul: Preserve the Free and Open Internet! Down with SOPA and PIPA!

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Comment by CHRISTINA on January 25, 2012 at 4:23am

thanks Trudy for adding below info :)

Comment by Trudy on January 25, 2012 at 4:18am

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq

Why was MegaUpload really shut down?

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megauploadwere about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)

I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak

Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."

Comment by Trudy on January 25, 2012 at 4:14am

And again it is all about money from what I understand this is all about. Megaupload was closed by  the FBI because the owners of copyrighted material lost according to the U.S. prosecution over 500 million U.S. dollars due to  the website.

Comment by CHRISTINA on January 25, 2012 at 3:59am

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/ron-paul-preserve-free-and-open...

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/sopa-and-pipa-fully-alive-and-n...