"Death by Lawyers: 10 Cool Sites We Miss"

Mashable lists ten cool sites that were effectively shut down by lawyers:

At the beginning, everyone thought everything on the Internet is going to be free, forever.

Yeah, right.

Right now, the net is being constantly monitored, people are getting arrested for even thinking about piracy, DRM is preventing us from sharing stuff with friends, and web sites and services are getting closed down on a daily basis. The last few weeks have been no different: Microsoft wants to nail Linux for infringing patents (hey, they can look at Linux code, but no one can look at their code. See the problem there?), Imeem is being sued by Warner Bros for copyright infringement, while YouTube gets sued, well, every damn day. 

Unfortunately, people are slowly accepting the fact that some cool things are gone- and they’re not coming back, because someone somewhere needs to make more money. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and remember some of the things that were taken from us.

Read the list here.