Hey guys, JohnRCC here. It may trouble you to know (and it sure as hell troubles us) that file host Megaupload has been shut down by the American government, for allegedly "running an international criminal enterprise centered on copyright infringement on the Internet".This means that any albums posted on the blog which were hosted on Megaupload (like, 95% of them) will no longer work. As Persona101 mentioned in his post, we'll try and get all affected albums back up on alternate hosts, but we have kind of a lot to get through, so bear with us in that respect.
It's an eerie coincidence that just as all the discussion of SOPA/PIPA seems to be coming to a head, something like this should happen. A stark warning then, I suppose, of what may occur much more often if these acts are passed and a reminder everywhere for fans of music to help do something about it, be it contacting your local politicians or signing petitions whichever which way you can.
As for future posts on Court in the Act, for me at least I will be posting albums hosted on Mediafire, but it's a damn shame that such a fine file host should go under (just think of all the porn that has been lost!).
Here's an article on the closure of Megaupload.
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