GREEN DAY 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN TORRENT 320 KBPS ERIN TVThem's the breaks I guess, but in evaluating whether this shutdown was a net positive for us humans, you have to take that into account.Įven some of the illegal usage was likely the kind of activity that approaches what I consider to be victimless piracy: people downloading stuff they already bought but lost, people downloading stuff they missed on TV and couldn't find on Netflix or iTunes, people downloading stuff they didn't like and regretted watching or hearing and never would have bought anyway, people downloading a Jonathan Coulton album (oh let's say, Artificial Heart, the new Jonathan Coulton album, which is an awesome Jonathan Coulton album called Artificial Heart) and loving it so much that in a year they decide to buy a ticket to a Jonathan Coulton show and walk up to the merch table and hand me $20. Still, today that tiny percentage had something taken away from them, without warning, maybe just a service they liked using, but maybe a piece of digital media that belonged to them - if they uploaded something and didn't keep a copy, that thing is now gone. I have no idea what the ratio was, and probably it would be impossible to figure that out with any certainty, but let's stipulate that it was a very large percentage of illegal activity, and only a very tiny percentage of the users were there for anything other than downloading content that they didn't buy. Some number of those files were personal files owned by the people sending them. People used MegaUpload to send large files around. Here are the issues that, for me, make this complicated.Īlong with all the illegal stuff happening on MegaUpload was some amount of completely legal stuff. Essentially, they did bad things and they got in trouble for it. That's certainly illegal, and it doesn't exactly give them the moral high ground either. Probably they were making a lot of money that way. GREEN DAY 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN TORRENT 320 KBPS ERIN DOWNLOADObviously none of us knows the complete truth, but I'm guessing that the people who ran MegaUpload were knowingly profiting from the unauthorized download of other people's intellectual property (including mine). I recognize these things are complicated. Second, this was a tweet, so it was <=140 characters of ha ha, and not designed to be a thorough discussion of all the issues. I did not see an uptick in sales because one piracy site got shut down, nor do I expect to. There are many comments and questions out there already with more to come, and rather than have a bunch of separate discussions on a bunch of different social media platforms, I thought I would put some of my thoughts here.įirst of all, I was being sarcastic. In addition, I’ve just done a couple of interviews for NPR on the subject, and I think I may have said some crazy, provocative things. Minority (Live at the BBC August 28 2001)ġ6.I wrote this thing on Twitter this morning about the MegaUpload shutdown, and it’s gotten some crazy traction on the old internet. Church On Sunday (Live at the BBC August 28 2001)ġ5. Castaway (Live at the BBC August 28 2001)ġ4. Redundant (Live at the BBC February 12 1998)ġ3. Prosthetic Head (Live at the BBC February 12 1998)ġ2. Nice Guys Finish Last (Live at the BBC February 12 1998)ġ1. Hitchin’ A Ride (Live at the BBC February 12 1998)ġ0. Stuck With Me (Live at the BBC November 3 1996)Ġ9. Walking Contradiction (Live at the BBC November 3 1996)Ġ8. Brain Stew/Jaded (Live at the BBC November 3 1996)Ġ7. Geek Stink Breath (Live at the BBC November 3 1996)Ġ6. 2000 Light Years Away (Live at the BBC June 8 1994)Ġ5. Basket Case (Live at the BBC June 8 1994)Ġ4. When I Come Around (Live at the BBC June 8 1994)Ġ3.
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