hear my beaten heart exclaim: The real reason MegaUpload was shut down?
In December of 2011, it was reported by Digital Music News that the creators of MegaUpload were rolling out plans for a new cloud based music service that had the potential to change the music industry.
Called Megabox, it would have created an alternative to record labels as a means for artists to sell their music on-line, cut out the middle man and allow artists to keep 90 percent of their earnings.
They were also going to have a program called Megakey that allowed artists to offer their music free and still generate revenue.
This came just a week or so after Universal filed to have a promotional video by Megaupload removed from youtube that featured A list artists, that Universal had absolutely no claim to.
Was Megaupload taken down because it was a threat to an existing business model, that makes a lot of people a lot of money?
It’s starting to look that way.
Also, for your reading enjoyment, here is an interview with the founder of Megaupload concerning the youtube video take down, and his previous problems with Universal.
Sources:
Mystery surrounds Universal’s takedown of Megaupload YouTube video on C|NET
MegaUpload Is Now Launching a Music Service Called MegaBox… on Digital Music News
Post on google plus by Shauna Myers “Why was MegaUpload really shut down?”
lovely lady lumps: my sexuality
So I was sitting in my macroeconomics class and there was this masculine dressed girl sitting in the row in front of me. As I sat and watched her, I was trying to figure out why she, to me, was more attractive than the male sitting besides her. They both have shaved hair and a diamond-like earring in their left ear. They both were wearing fitted jeans and a tee. The only real difference is that underneath her clothes is a woman’s body and his, a male’s body.
The only reason I guess as to why I was thinking this was because there was a time where I genuinely had an attraction for men, but the last 3 years or so I haven’t been attracted to one at all romantically. I see them just as attractive beings, but not attractive enough to get myself actually involved with. Sometimes I wonder what in me changed that I no longer see them the way I had in high school. Today if you asked me what I identified as sexually, I would reluctantely say gay for the simple fact that I have no interest in being with man, but part of me doesn’t really see that identification fit. All in all I try to avoid the question all together because I see sexuality as something fluid. It’s not something finite.
Just because I’m not interested in men today, and although I don’t see that changing anytime soon doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t. I mean 5-10 years ago I never saw myself liking women, but all that changed. I guess now I just identify as queer. A sexually fluid woman. :)
