[prowler]

McLEAN, Va. — Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.

The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.

Megaupload.com has claimed it is diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.

The indictment says at one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular website in the world.

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[emigre]

Ah fuck!

[Guild McCommunist]

Damn, what a shame, it was probably my second favorite filehosting site outside of Mediafire. Since PSP torrents are hard to come across, Megaupload was my go-to site.

[heartgold]

Damn it.

[Satangel]

I actually downloaded something from them a few hours ago. Now it's not working anymore
Those guys rocked.....

[LuckySteves]

Well, there goes one of my favorite filesharing sites. It always had good download speed, and relatively small wait times, I'll miss it.

[Foxi4]

They'll get out of that jam - they were in fact removing infringing materials to the best of their abilities (i.e when they were reported that such materials can be found under a given link) but they cannot actively scan their own servers for such content as whatever users upload is technically not their property and thus cannot be "checked" as it rises Invasion of Privacy issues. Piratebay computers were confiscated a number of times, they recieve tons upon tons of letters from various officials and yet they're still standing and doing perfectly fine.

[1NOOB]

lol my friend just renewed his premium : (

[Skelletonike]

So that's why megaupload wasn't working...
But still, that's not their fault, it's like accusing someone of being guilty because they sold matches that were used to start a fire. =S

Actually, from what I noticed, Megaupload was one of the sites more on the lookout regarding piracy seeing as they constantly deleted files, more so that other sites that I know.
I don't find this fair seeing as megaupload is just a service like many others online, why not shut down all the other ones as well?

[Jakob95]

Fuck!!! This is the only place I ever download all my games/videos/files from... And I had a premium account.

[Thesolcity]

Dammit! I stored all of my Documents there (had pro).

[LorenzoTheComic]

Now where am I going to host my files that are larger than 200MB?

[Foxi4]

LOL @ people who buy premium accounts at downloading sites when you can use jDownloader and/or other software to achieve the same effect.

EDIT: Okay, I did not expect that GBATemp had a user named "people" - accidental notification sent lol.

Edited by Foxi4, 19 January 2012 - 09:13 PM.

[soulx]

Well that really sucks. ):

[Veho]

What about Megaporn? I'm surprised it took them that long.

So I guess the "we're not responsible for the content / we remove flagged content" thing doesn't work any more? There used to be a grey area for hosting sites as long as they were cooperative and diligent with requests for removing pirated stuff.