I’ll talk about in detail in the episode of Disinformatico today (Friday) at 11 on the Three Network of CSR, but at the cost of saying something unpopular, I have to point out that the hysterical reaction (denial of service in bursts) by Anonymous Megaupload and the closure of Megavideo by the FBI does exactly the game of who wants to defend the status quo and tougher copyright laws. Right now it was coming, and perhaps even to liquidate SOPA PIPA, Anonymous makes an own goal by attacking the sites of the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, Universal Music, RIAA and others. Now the lobbyists will be able to point the finger and say “See? We told you that the accusation of censorship and the defense of freedom of expression were fig leaves in order to continue to scrounge. ”

Before taking up the defense of Megaupload, read the charges in summary or in full. Its owners have not been arrested for simple file sharing of copyrighted material. They did much better: money laundering, for one thing. In addition, the efforts have become multi-millionaires scrounging others (just as some of the music and movie moguls). We’re not talking about a bunch of kids putting on a server to share episodes of Magnum PI or unavailable subtitled in Russian Doctor Who by returning time and money. We’re talking about people who has made five Mercedes AMG and tens of millions of profits with Megaupload. Sure you would like to present as champions of the struggle for freedom against censorship of the Internet? An account is non-profit file sharing, another is to profit from file sharing.

I have no problem praising the “piracy” as a way to preserve the culture and freedom of ideas, but this risk ending of fellow adventurers very embarrassing. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d say they were chosen on purpose because spectacularly unpresentable.Continued persecution of file hosting sites: Megaupload after, now is the turn of FileSonic, another well-known service of this kind. The portal in question actually is still reachable, but with a heavy limitation: the sharing of files among multiple people is disabled, allowing only download files uploaded by yourself.

FileSonic virtually turns into a cloud hosting service like Dropbox, failing in its traditional setting and preventing the flow of the files covered by copyright there (in thousands if not more). It seems that manyaccounts from ”uploaders” repeat offenders rather than to share copyrighted material has been completely eliminated. Finally, no payment will not be provided to users, who were paid based on the traffic generatedfiles loaded from them. At present it is unclear who or what intervened to force staff to take FileSonic the choice to completely eliminate file sharing, but it is likely that this is a task closely related to Mega upload. After Megaupload, another huge blow to the world of file sharing, in what looks like a real witch-hunt is nowno other site can no longer feel safe, the feeling is that many more will soon be affected.