Thursday, March 1st 2012 to Saturday 31st March 2012

With the continuing campaigns for internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as MEGAUPLOAD under allegations of ‘piracy’ and ‘conspiracy’ the time has come to take a stand against Music, Film and Media Companies’ lobbyists.

The only way is to him them where it truly hurts.
There profit Margins.

March 2012 is the end of the 1st quarter in economic reports worldwide.

Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy, Do not buy a DVD in stores. Do not buy a video-game. Do not buy a single book or magazine.

Wait the 4 weeks to buy them in April: see the film later, etc. Holding out for just 4 weeks, maximum, will leave a gaping hole in media and entertainment companies’ profits for the first quarter, an economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments worldwide as stocks and shares will blip from large enough loss of incomes.
This action can give a statement of intend:

“We will not tolerate the Media Industries’ lobbying for legislation which will censor the internet”

Original Video…

I was just surfing net when the news hit me that the file sharing website megaupload.com is shut down and 7 from the staff have been arrested! Some of them are Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz, and Kim Tim Jim Vesto.

The indictment is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States, according to the FBI. It accuses seven individuals and two corporations — Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited — of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment, which was unsealed on Thursday, says that at one point Megaupload was the 13th most popular website in the world.

The indictment comes the day after a 24-hour “blackout” of Wikipedia, a protest doodle on the homepage of Google, and numerous other protests across the Internet against proposed anti-piracy legislation that many leading websites — including Reddit, Google, Facebook, Amazon and others — contend will make it challenging if not impossible for them to operate.

The Protect Intellectual Property Act under consideration in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House are bills backed by the motion picture and recording industries intended to eliminate theft online once and for all. S. 968 and H.R. 3261 would require ISPs to block access to foreign websites that infringe on copyrights.

• http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-file-sharing-website/#ixzz1jwKnBmqM
• http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-shut-down-120119/