"I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I love that we have laws and people to enforce them. But if I had to give up one thing, if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time."
I can see indie filmmakers being innovative, but I fail to see how Megaupload was innovative. Yet noone has made the argument or the claim that it was, though it is obviously more important than the arts to the people on this forum. As though it was a representation of the innovation of the Internet and now the rallying cry for entrepreneurship. Is the Internet really only about data-center storage and distributing other people's content without compensation to the authors or producers? Is Ycombinator really going to become a forum about evading laws due to loopholes like Megaupload was?
"I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I love that we have laws and people to enforce them. But if I had to give up one thing, if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless, innovation-fest that is the internet? I’ll take the internet every time."
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/