Yes it hosted a ton of content considered copyright infringing.
It also stored our collective culture of the last 2 DECADES.
Books, music, movies, games, art. Petabytes of knowledge and data available to all, without restriction, bias or condition, available for rich and poor alike, the very vision of what a library should be.
The creative work of hundreds of thousands of individuals and groups, large and small…backed up and available for all to view and admire.
And now it’s gone.
Forever.
Whether you agree with the actions taken against Megaupload that day or not, they’ve affected us all. We lost something that day guys and we didn’t even realise it…
We lost our collective digital record.
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