@Dennis Makes sense... @Steve You do have a point too. Thanks for the eye opener. @Stephen Glad to know! :) Strange world we live in - what with all this secrecy... But I still have a hunch that hapa iko kitu. I think it's common knowledge that the powers that be (read, the state and the judiciary) are not always clean. A comment I read somewhere read that the RIAA have also been laundering millions of dollars. It was a user comment with no source cited, so I never included it in my mail, but I wouldn't be surprised to know that it's actually true. S. On 20 January 2012 13:41, Stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, at least this one I heard :)
About Vivendi, corporates are mysterious and opaque entities, sometimes the owners are protected by law to protect the revelations of who actually owns them - and more often than not, some political heavy weights are behind it..
Eg - the list of faces behind Equity Bank is protected by 9 years.. Or who actually owns Nakumatt and that Charterhouse bank whose mysterious clients deposit and withdraw into Nakumatt
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On 20 Jan 2012, at 11:28, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
I believe [perhaps with the exception of Steve Ndung'u - no offense :)] that ya'll are aware of MegaUpload's closure and the arrest of its top officials. I've been reading up on the whole thing and what I know or have so far found is that:
- MegaUpload does the same stuff as a number of other filesharing sites such as <http://rapidshare.com>rapidshare.com, <http://depositfiles.com>depositfiles.com etc (not to mention P2P which does more or less the same thing, albeit without revenues going to anyone in particular) - MegaUpload signed a deal with a number of artists like The Game, Macy Gray etc to do a viral campaign for MegaUpload (see the MegaUpload song <http://www.google.com/search?q=the+megaupload+song>) - The artists involved in the above campaign are all signed with UMG, one of the "top three" in the music industry - UMG instructed YouTube to take down the MegaUpload song video. Kim Schmitz (MegaUpload founder) asks what authority UMG has to issue takedown notices to YouTube over material owned exclusively by MegaUpload - UMG must be really big powerful. Vivendi owns UMG, therefore Vivendi must be quite big and uber-powerful
Now my questions are as follows:
- Who owns Vivendi? - Why is MegaUpload being targeted by feds? Don't give me that SOPA/PIPA/copyright stuff because rapidshare and its likes are still up
Is there something we're not being told here? By the way, I've tried to find out who owns Vivendi and all I am getting is info on what Vivendi owns (and they own A LOT). It's like MegaUpload took some of UMG's "babies" and told them "Hey, I'll pay you to help me do a viral campaign for me, although guys use me to pirate your [or your mother - UMG's ] music. UMG wasn't pleased and the whole thing appears to have some political twist to it.
What are your thoughts? And who do you think owns Vivendi [just curious]?
S.
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