i would really like to know if all the estimates of however many billions of "lost revenue" or whatever that are motivating the proposed legislation and crackdown on mega actually take into account the fact that in almost all cases there is no lost revenue at all.
seriously, how many people who download something for free, be it movies or music or porn, would have actually gone and bought it otherwise were it not for the fact that they figured out how to get it free? i suspect not many.
speaking for myself, when it comes to porn, nothing i would ever have a chance to freeload would be something i would want badly enough to pay for. so, no lost revenue there. when it comes to music, i've actually spent more money buying music i liked than i would have otherwise.
this is old media's last gasp effort to hold on to whatever little shred of relevance they think they still have left to hold on to. new media gets it, and has figured out that if you know how to sell it people are always going to buy shit in the new media world. there has always been copyright leakage with anything. old media is singing a dying swan song by going after what amounts to scattered corners of the internet. no doubt it makes the lawyers and politicians feel good about themselves, but in the broader scheme of things it's just bogus bullshit.