MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive'

An anonymous reader writes "The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has declared that the Megaupload shutdown earlier this year has been a great success. In a filing to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the group representing major movie studios says the file hosting and sharing industry has been massively disrupted. Yet the MPAA says there is still work to be done, identifying sites that make available to downloaders 'unauthorized copies of high-quality, recently-released content and in some cases, coordinate the actual upload and download of that content.' Here's the list of sites, including where they are hosted: Extratorrent (Ukraine), IsoHunt (Canada), Kickass Torrents (Canada), Rutracker (Russia), The Pirate Bay (Sweden), Torrentz (Canada), and Kankan (China)."

Yeah right...

[staltz]

It was a successful operation in the same way as arresting the whole world prevents crime.

Thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

I live in Canada, and I'm very proud that we have so many torrent sites (I didn't know that). From all of us who live up here: fuck you MPAA.

This was a triumph.

[fragtag]

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. --MPAA

Yay piracy is over!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank God the war on piracy is over!

Re:This was a triumph.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart and killed me. And torn it pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!

WooHoo for Canada

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

We're number 1!
All others are #2 or worse!

Whack a mole

[nurb432]

It always feels like a success when you whack the first mole.. but then 2 of its friends appear later..

Eventually the moles eat you.

title tag should have been "mission accomplished"

[Wookie_CD]

(referring, naturally, to the banner behind Bush on an aircraft carrier while making a speech about the Iraq war)

Re:Doesn't help

[cheekyjohnson]

Some people only wish that copyright infringement had the ability to actually take money away from content creators! Why, if it did, they could download the content over and over until the MPAA, RIAA, and all those other guys died off!

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News Flash!

[flyneye]

In the news today, the MPAA still can't find its ass, despite utilizing both arms and a road map, in a lit room. Film at 11.