Entertainment Industry Was Eager to Work With Megaupload

[CaseAgainstFaith]

Considering the aggressive stance taken by the MPAA against Megaupload, one might be forgiven for thinking the Hollywood-backed group and file-hosting service were sworn enemies. But behind the scenes things were quite different, with companies including Disney, Warner Brothers and Fox courting Megaupload to set up content distribution and advertising deals.

In an eyebrow-raising email penned by Disney attorney Gregg Pendola, the counsel contacts Megaupload not to threaten or sue the company, but to set up a deal to have Disney content posted on the Megavideo site.

In another email, Shelina Sayani, Digital Marketing Coordinator for Warner Bros, offers a deal to syndicate “exciting” Warner content to Megaupload’s Megavideo site.

Jonathan Karron, Director of Marketing at Turner Broadcasting System, contacted Megaupload suggesting a partnership to “promote some of Turner’s great properties” and “original programming.”

So as we can see, as recently as November 2010 member companies of the MPAA were making contact with Megaupload and trying to do business with the company. According to the authorities the investigation into Megaupload took two years, meaning that these contacts and the start of a criminal investigation could have been just weeks apart.

http://torrentfreak.com/entertainment-industry-was-eager-to-work-with-megaupload-120326/

i think it's hard to make a judgement when the replies are not posted, if there were any, to those emails. i said when the raid first happened that it was because Kim was offering/going to offer better services than the entertainment industries were prepared to themselves. they couldn't admit that what they had been doing was wrong, that Kim was going to make money from the services and saw just one way out, the same one way out they always see. shut down, sue, break. what it really shows is that those in control of the entertainment industries have less of an idea of what the people want and how to supply it.

[Witchyjoshy]

So, there WAS an ulterior motive for the takedown after all.

-.=.- They're not interested in protecting the entertainment industry.  They're only interested in their own damn pocketbooks.

And they're wielding our police force, our laws, to invade other countries, to do so.

That's actually kinda scary.  That two corporations can actually make us invade other countries.

[RavynousHunter]

Fish in a slowly drying lake, desperately clinging to the only patches of water it knows, too frightened of swimming to the new body of water the other fish are going to while trying to prevent the other fish from leaving, even if they have to kill them and themselves to do it.

[N. De Plume]

So not only do the actual artists and content creators generally disagree with the MPAA and RIAA regarding Megaupload and similar sites, but so do a number of the corporations that actually more directly employ said content creators. Nice.