Comments on: Swizz Beatz’ File Sharing Site MegaUpload Shut Down

By: Feds to Use Swizz Beatz as Way to Prosecute Megaupload in U.S. | XXL

Feds to Use Swizz Beatz as Way to Prosecute Megaupload in U.S. | XXL — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:47:21 +0000

[...] Feds shut down the website this past January due to violating piracy laws, Swizzy was listed as the CEO of the company. He had even made a [...]

By: Bunker 8 Digital Labs

Bunker 8 Digital Labs — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:27:34 +0000

Awesomely uninformed opinion. If you had a business like ours which was literally gutted by piracy and people literally stealing from you, you would feel different. Or, to put it another way, what would it be like if every two weeks I stopped by your workplace and I took my “cut” of your paycheque for doing nothing.
There is nothing noble about Megaupload, there is nothing noble about file sharing sites. If the people who create the content cannot get paid for their work and their only source of income from it is from sales of the product, then, like our business, we had to lay off 1/2 the workforce and we are hanging on by a thread. The income that is made from the sales of our digital products IS OUR INCOME. There is no other source of revenue for us.
If rampant piracy isn’t stopped, then people will just think that the candy store will be there to be robbed. Swizz is looking at making money from piracy, that is wrong. These companies like Megaupload, Fileserve and the rest of them are NOT noble. They are charging you a fee to have an account with them, a fee that makes them rich off of the backs of the ones producing the content that they are allowing to be shared.
Theft is theft, there is no nobility or “freedom of speech” issue here. When someone steals from you, robs your house, they don’t tell the judge that they were doing it to protect “intellectual property freedom.”
That is the real BS in all of this, wake up and smell reality.
Or send us a cheque.

By: dumb shit

dumb shit — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:15:30 +0000

This wont do shit…the majority of people who do pirating do it the safe way….through torrents now….its ridiculously safe in comparison to other forms of P2P and much much much safer than using an upload site for the person downloading stuff. This SOPA/PIPA stuff is total BS….you know its bad when a whole industry its supposed to be protecting (video games) are speaking out against it. Hell, music artists need to get off their shit, they make most of their money off of nonmusic related shit anyway nowadays…

By: net-wurk

net-wurk — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:31:01 +0000

Damn I never knew swiss was the CEO of megaupload… but I think thats some BS… straight up. Megaupload was the best site for uploads …no hastle no bs.. just upload ur files ..option to pay or not to pay.. they act like shutting down his site is gonna end piracy..not everybody uses large file upload sites just to pirate, they just going overboard with this shit