Megaupload Down

Today Megaupload was shut down by the U.S. Justice Department on charges of copyright infringement. While pirated materials are often hosted on the site, Megaupload does not condone piracy and always complies with DMCA’s and removes flagged material.

The indictment was returned in Virginia, where Megaupload servers were found to have pirated content.

The scariest part of this is the precedent this may set. How does Megaupload differ from YouTube or Mediafire, which both unwittingly host copyrighted content? User generated content is the core of their business models.

Imagine all those dead links now. Millions of links.

Its almost as if the government said to us, “You won SOPA yesterday, but remember who’s still really in charge”.

Begun the internet war has.

Faith in Humanity

Today when I was getting sushi with a friend I accidentally left my car headlights on. Upon returning I came upon the grave realization that my car’s battery was dead.

Three people went out of their way to help us get the car started, including a dad whose family was meeting people at a restaurant, a dad buying groceries with his daughter, and two teenagers in a pickup.

People are so nice.