Megaupload taken down

[RikuCrafter]

Why do you all like filesonic and fileserve? They're slow and too restrictive.

As long as everyone switches to Mediafire and that stays up, I'll stay happy.

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

Why do you all like filesonic and fileserve? They're slow and too restrictive.

As long as everyone switches to Mediafire and that stays up, I'll stay happy.

Mediafire is good and all, but there's a site I use for downloading homebrew and the like that only hosts to megaupload.

Edit) OH GOD THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN TOO

 

[Hop2089]

Why do you all like filesonic and fileserve? They're slow and too restrictive.

As long as everyone switches to Mediafire and that stays up, I'll stay happy.

Mediafire is good and all, but there's a site I use for downloading homebrew and the like that only hosts to megaupload.

Edit) OH GOD THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN TOO

Proof in lightspeed

 

[MakiManPR]

Anonymous shutdown the website of the Department of Justice

http://www.justice.gov/

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[DigitalDeviant]

As much as I hate seeing the piracy bugs getting squashed, it gets easier for the man to do it when the piracy bug grows bigger and bigger.
As long as mediafire can survive them (because I sincerely dislike filesonic/fileserve), I'll be pretty happy.
All the live bootlegs from Grateful Dead and the Mars Volta will be gone now, though....

Especially Rush bootlegs, a great bootlegger by the name of JTM has uploaded his extensive collection to MU, now all gone! so sad.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Anonymous shutdown the website of the Department of Justice

http://www.justice.gov/

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[Foxi4]

Just to add to my previous post, shutting down File Sharing sites is pretty much the equivalent of banning blank DVD/CD/BluRay discs because one may use them to burn pirate copies of various content, banning paper because one may print out an illegaly downloaded book or banning whatever other medium that ever existed.

I could understand if the page was specifically designed to hold "illegal" content and was tailored for easy access to it, for example via means of a search engine that gives you appropriet links on the fly. Megaupload was just a file storage service, it was entirely up to the users what they want to store, not the owner of the service. I assume that they'll be back up relatively soon.

@MakiManPR

Looks like DDOS to me. Nowhere near an equivalent of actually shutting a site, it's just script kids being kids.

 

[Black-Ice]

SOPA wont last long with the amount of opposition i've heard
Times are hard and the government want more money in any way possible and this how they intend to try and get it

 

[Veho]

Just to add to my previous post, shutting down File Sharing sites is pretty much the equivalent of banning blank DVD/CD/BluRay discs because one may use them to burn pirate copies of various content, banning paper because one may print out an illegaly downloaded book or banning whatever other medium that ever existed.

Ever heard of the "piracy tax"? On all blank media, with that exact reasoning. "It could be used for pirated content, therefore we will preemptively charge a piracy fee."

 

[Foxi4]

Just to add to my previous post, shutting down File Sharing sites is pretty much the equivalent of banning blank DVD/CD/BluRay discs because one may use them to burn pirate copies of various content, banning paper because one may print out an illegaly downloaded book or banning whatever other medium that ever existed.

Ever heard of the "piracy tax"? On all blank media, with that exact reasoning. "It could be used for pirated content, therefore we will preemptively charge a piracy fee."

Not present where I live, God bless my backwards country. I've heard of numerous stupid things, but not of this. Exactly how lubed up is the U.S government to bend over infront of Corporations that low? Does it actually include paper aswell? Also, it's still just a tax, not a ban.

 

[Ben_j]

I just hope they don't take down Mediafire, it's the only site that has no captchas, no timer and no download limit...

 

[Majorami]

This is like sueing Google because it can be used to find anything...

Its not Mega's fault that pirates take advantage of their great service. In fact, Megaupload is very diligent to remove TV shows/movies/games from its servers. And what Mega offers is no different than the dozens/hundreds of similar sites offering similar services.

 

[xist]

Ever heard of the "piracy tax"? On all blank media, with that exact reasoning. "It could be used for pirated content, therefore we will preemptively charge a piracy fee."

Wow. The one time i've ever seen the UK not get screwed over by the Government.

 

[Creqaw]

I heard read that it was because of the owners being rather shady (money laundering, fraud etc.) rather than piracy what killed MU though. It just happened to be a site that had copyrighted stuff on it. Owners were convicted for stuff the 5th of January.

 

[Deleted member 158512]

Relevant, worst "song" ever:


If they have the money to pay all of these ultra-rich people to be shills for something they never heard of, they'll do fine in court.

 

[Veho]

Not present where I live, God bless my backwards country.

Poland? It's present there (ZPAV collects 3% on all blank media), it's just not listed in the Wikipedia article.

 

[notmeanymore]

Why MegaUpload of all sites? RapidShare, MediaFire, FileServe, they all have those same files.

 

[xist]

Reading through the info on the FBI page i posted earlier it seems like the case is built on immensely shakey assumptions. I can't really see how this can really do the damage the FBI wants it to.

 

[Deleted-236924]

Good thing I downloaded Morfeo's Pokémon Crystal hack before this happened.
Megaupload was the only place we could find it at.

 

[1234turtles]

r.i.p megaupload