Thread: 7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site

Originally Posted by tommo

Because there were simply providing a service which people wanted? If that makes one scummy, every big business person is....oh wait.
Carry on.

Please don't make such stupid posts. The Nazis were simply providing a service which people wanted, that's not inherently a good or bad thing. It depends on what you're actually DOING, doesn't it?

What they were doing is making large amounts of money off of people who had actually spent money creating the content on their site, at their expense. They had no interest in 'freedom of information' or any of that bullshit, they just had interest in getting rich by leeching off productive people. Of course that is scummy, you dolt.

Why do you think they placed a time limit on their videos? How does that fit into their status as heroic knights of information spreading ('information' here meaning Hollywood Blockbusters, which are an inalienable human right)? They tricked people into giving their credit card details, and then took monthly fees which the people didn't seem to have the option of ever stopping. Not that they even bothered to take the time limit off for them.