MEGA UPLOAD ENTRAPMENT SCANDAL: Why did "UPLOAD TO ME TODAY" web piracy indoctrination video featuring Kanye, Foxx, Diddy and other big celebs come out weeks before SOPA/PIPA crackdown!?

As the battle over SOPA/PIPA  rages on, the developing Mega Upload scandal could not have come at a more opportune time for the Corporate Fascists attempting to SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET.

It's called "entrapment" and the legal definition is pretty simple: inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit.  It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, and the rise of online piracy in general is a great example of entrapment in action.

It is well documented that the same media conglomerates now attempting to control the internet are also behind programs like Limewire, Kazaa, and BitTorrent... popular file sharing platforms.  Companies like Microsoft, AOL, CBS, and Time Warner not only distribute these programs but even encourage using them to download copyrighted content.  Watch the video below, and you'll see that the Media Conglomerates are the ones who distributed ships, guns, and grog to most of the "online pirates"  The typical pirate of course being a high school or college kid who just wants to watch some movies and listen to some tunes.

Handing the Internets a bunch of file sharing programs and asking that they not share files is like wheeling kegs of beer into a frat house and asking them not to throw a party.

MEGA UPLOAD represented the most user friendly and mainstream version of this Corporate Trojan Horse,  and as the following video shows, blatantly enticed its users to upload files with little regard for legality.  Just weeks before Mega Upload was targeted and taken down, a painfully-catchy video featuring many of the hottest young musicians and celebs came out, urging viewers repeatedly to "upload to me today".

The video is a masterpiece of pop indoctrination and celebrity coersion, and I cannot even fathom how many people who would not have otherwise uploaded a single file to Mega Upload got suckered into "illegally distributing" copyrighted content by following celebrity advice:  UPLOAD TO ME TODAY.

Just watch a few minutes of this crap and you'll see.  Careful, it's catchy... 12 million views in a few weeks:



It's a trip, right: repetetive indoctrination peppered with celebrity endorsement, urging listeners to "upload to me today".  There is no doubt that an absurd number of people got duped into uploading stuff they wouldn't have otherwise after watching this video.

... and tricking kids into "illegally distributing" mp3s.

Most people visit a site like Mega Upload only to download files, and very few upload (aka "illegally distribute") copyrighted material.  Mega Upload had no shortage of files or visitors, and was making a killing on advertising, so they had little to gain by urging additional uploads.  If anything, all the excess uploads adverts like this prompted would have eaten precious bandwidth and slowed their operation down.

So what did TPTB's behind MegaUpload gain with their "UPLOAD TO ME TODAY" Campaign?  Plenty, including a couple million wanna be hacksters and unwitting dupes personal info linked to illegal file sharing... and oodles of data showing just how out of hand -- but not really -- the online piracy situation has gotten.

It's a devious plan: media companies create their own cyber "enemy", track the extent of their "losses" (while enjoying the ad revenue from their file sharing platforms), and use "rampant online piracy" as a pretext to gain further control.

"We make your butthole look like this."

They get rich.  They get powerful.  Those of us who can't afford a media empire lose our basic human rights to free speech... and the internet starts to suck.

And who do they use while sticking it to you?  Your favorite celebs, that's who!  Disposable pawns in their war on free thinking and open dialogue.

If there's one thing Fascists love, it's having power over other people.  What better way to grab someone by the short and curlies than to tie them in to a scandal.  All the celebs in the MegaUpload commercial are not enjoying life at the moment: they're linked to the shit.  Meanwhile, millions of web users are no doubt feeling a tinge of paranoia now that MegaUpload has been taken offline.  Celebs and uploaders alike could receive an expensive lesson in the finer points Entrapment... but not if the Occupy Movement has anything to say in the matter.

Talking heads are not your friend, especially if they're repeatedly urging you to do something with a catchy beat.  Remember that.

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