Privateering
March 25, 2008
It’s been almost a month since the shutting down of the popular file-sharing and streaming-vid site “stage6,” as mentioned in this techcrunch blurb. It was supposed to be a huge blow to the piracy network online. Heh heh, yeah right. They couldn’t defeat the Hydra if they tried–I’ve seen many more similar sites rise up in just the past week.
Web 2.0 has the idea in our heads that this content should be free–especially when we would have watched said content except for some business or obligation that came up. Merely removing the one site did nothing as many people rushed to fill the gap left in the availability dept. of free media.
