They didn’t know they were saying it. But if you take the numbers given, 50 million daily users… Total of 1 billion registered….
50 million divided by 7 billion (earth’s population) means 0.7% of the worlds population used MegaUpLoad on a daily basis. This population total includes those with no computer access, such as the rural Chinese, Indonesian peasants, and unknown Indians in the Amazon Rain Forest….
7 out of every 1000 people on this planet who used MegaUpLoad on a daily basis, is a rather large number if you think of it…
Estimates from major servers put around 500 million the number of computers on this planet… that means there were twice more users signed up at MegaUpLoad than there are computers active on the planet. 50 million daily users means one in ten computers on the planet, were involved with the server MegaUpLoad…..
Federal Prosecutors have said they are done with the data they needed. They have turned over the property rights of the items on the servers to those servers contracted to MegaUpLoad to store the information. Since MegaUpLoad’s assets are frozen, the servers will begin deleting the information on Groundhog Day, February 2nd.
Within that deletion will be 0.00002% of those files that may be pirated. Also deleted, will be files by small businesses, job related data people stored at work, digital family pictures stored for safe keeping…
You see, when you have a server with free storage, a lot of people who access the Internet only through the means of a shared computer, … have a need for it.
If piracy is such a “huge” issue, then one would think more than 10 people or 0.00002% of its users, would be arrested… Those 10 who have charges filed against them, and who no doubt will be found innocent when given the chance to a trial before an impartial jury…., aren’t really much of a threat at all.
The 99.99998% of the rest of its users, who are about to have their life’s history erased , deserve to be a little miffed..
Unfortunately, to completely put this into proper perspective … out of the 100% of those who crashed the world’s economy back in 2008…. the heads of Goldman-Sachs, J.P. Morgan, AIG, Bank of America, and other players on Wall Street … 0% have been arrested and charged…
Apparently, destroying the world’s pension funds, bankrupting whole countries, dissolving entire banking empires, all on false information which you knew beforehand to be untrue, is far less a crime than not paying .89 cents for a song you got off of YouTube for free….
The world is a little topsy-turvey, don’t you think?
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January 31, 2012 at 12:18 am
kavips
This is worth commenting upon.
January 31, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Mike W.
“The 99.99998% of the rest of its users, who are about to have their life’s history erased , deserve to be a little miffed.. ”
Welcome to how gun owners feels.