Just stumbled upon this little "reviev" of a Google+ User, saying why MegaUpload was such a big threat for the US music industry.
I think we all knew that there was more behind the accusations of MegaUpload founder Kim Schmitz.
Because if not, then Rapidshare and all the other filehoster would have been ****ed to!
So here's what she says:
Source: https://plus.google.com/u/0/11131408...ts/HQJxDRiwAWq
Pretty frightening how much influence the UMG really has. Showing that this influence is not only limited to the US - it's worldwide!
I think we all knew that there was more behind the accusations of MegaUpload founder Kim Schmitz.
Because if not, then Rapidshare and all the other filehoster would have been ****ed to!
So here's what she says:
Quote:
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In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ) I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label. "UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free. "We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works." 
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Pretty frightening how much influence the UMG really has. Showing that this influence is not only limited to the US - it's worldwide!