Craig Priestley wants filesharing sites closed
Craig Priestley, The Music Mag founder, says that by closing filesharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload and Yousendit illegal filesharing and copyright infringement will be stopped.
This seems very unlikely as a lot more ways are available to share legal and illegal files over the Internet. Rapidshare and friends haven’t been around so long and there was filesharing long before them.
From IRC to napster to easynews, we have witnessed them all. Every time someone tried to stop people from using these services to share illegal (or legal) files they failed (or people moved on to a different service).
Didn’t we learn anything from the past? Do they really think that if sites like Rapidshare will be closed it will stop the illegal sharing? It hasn’t worked in the past and I’m willing to bet it won’t work in the future. The only way to stop illegal sharing is giving the public what it wants, when it wants it.
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