"Corporate fascists attempting to shut down the Internet'

This is Max Mogren’s take on what is behind the latest events.

Make up your mind - but I’m sure that ultimately about the freedom of the Internet (and I’m not talking about the right to download movies!)

MEGA UPLOAD ENTRAPMENT SCANDAL: Why did "UPLOAD TO ME TODAY" web piracy indoctrination video featuring Kanye, Foxx, Diddy and other big celebs come out weeks before SOPA/PIPA crackdown!?

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19 january, 2012

As the battle over SOPA/PIPA  rages on, the developing Mega Upload scandal could not have come at a more opportune time for the Corporate Fascists attempting to SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET. 

It's called "entrapment" and the legal definition is pretty simple: inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit.  It is well documented that the same media conglomerates now attempting to control the internet are also behind programs like Limewire, Kazaa, and BitTorrent... popular file sharing platforms.  Companies like CBS and Time Warner not only distribute these programs but they also encourage using them to download copyrighted songs.

Mega Upload represented the most user friendly and mainstream version of this Corporate Trojan Horse,  and as the following video shows, also enticed its users to upload files with little regard for legality.

Just weeks before Mega Upload was targeted and taken down, a painfully-catchy video featuring many of the hottest  celebs came out, urging viewers repeatedly to "upload to me today".  The video is a masterpiece of pop indoctrination and celebrity coersion, and I cannot even fathom how many people who would not have otherwise uploaded a single file to Mega Upload got suckered into "illegally distributing" copyrighted content by following celebrity advice:  UPLOAD TO ME TODAY.

Just watch a few minutes of this crap and you'll see.  Careful, it's catchy... 12 million views in a few weeks:

It's a trip, right: repetetive indoctrination peppered with celebrity endorsement, urging listeners to "upload to me today".  There is no doubt that an absurd number of people got duped into uploading stuff they wouldn't have otherwise after watching this video.

... and tricking kids into "illegally distributing" mp3s.

Most people visit a site like Mega Upload only to download files, and very few upload (aka "illegally distribute") copyrighted material.  Mega Upload had no shortage of files or visitors, and was making a killing on advertising, so they had little to gain by urging additional uploads.  If anything, all the excess uploading advertising like this prompted would have eaten precious bandwidth and slowed their operation down.

So what did whoever's behind MegaUpload gain with their "UPLOAD TO ME TODAY" Campaign?  Plenty, including a couple million wanna be hacksters and unwitting dupes personal info linked to illegal file sharing.

It's a devious plan: media companies create their own cyber "enemy", track the extent of their "losses" (while enjoying the ad revenue from their file sharing platforms), and use "rampant online piracy" as a pretext to gain further control.

"We make your butthole look like this."

They get rich.  They get powerful.  You lose your basic human rights... we lose our basic human rights.

And who do they use while sticking it to you?  Your favorite celebs, that's who!

If there's one thing Fascists love, it's having power over other people, and what better way to grab someone by the short and curlies than to tie them in to a scandal.  All the celebs in the MegaUpload commercial are not enjoying life at the moment.  Millions of web users are no doubt feeling a tinge of paranoia now that MegaUpload has been taken offline.  Millions of people around the globe could receive an expensive lesson in the finer points Entrapment... but not if the Occupy Movement has anything to say in the matter.

Talking heads are not your friend... especially if they're singing along to a catchy beat.  Remember that.