Megaupload taken down

[FireGrey]

Its not piracy.
Megaupload is file-sharing, the creators don't upload anything there, only the visitors.

I think they're just using this as an example of SOPA.

 

[Shoat]

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.

Waaait. So they arrested the owners of a filesharing website halfway across the world because it is apparently their fault that their users are doing illegal things with their product?

If people are now to blame for everything their customers/users do with their product, why are all of the world's weapon manufacturers not in jail?
Going by this event they are responsible for 75% of all murders in the world.

 

[LAA]

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.

Waaait. So they arrested the owners of a filesharing website halfway across the world because it is apparently their fault that their users are doing illegal things with their product?

If people are now to blame for everything their customers/users do with their product, why are all of the world's weapon manufacturers not in jail?
Going by this event they are responsible for 75% of all murders in the world.

Yeah exactly man. But governments are two faced. They get money from using weapons against people against them, they dont get money from people pirating things. Only if its good to them alone will they leave it alone.
I'm curious how the US even got the right to arrest people in another country. They operate by different laws, not the USA laws, I dont understand what gives them right to enforce their laws globally.

 

[Ace Overclocked]

fuck that shit
megaupload was a nice site but i still have a rom site that has direct links and torrents so meh

 

[frogboy]

Crap, now I'll have to switch back to Medi-ocre-fire.

 

[Ultymoo]

Just wow. I can't believe it got taken out like that. How many others will follow? Oh wait, there's always the chance of this kind of government crap failing.

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

Megaupload is charged with "money lanudring" as much as Julian Assange was charged with "sex crimes"

MU upheld the DMCA so they coulden't destroy them by breaking the law.

EDIT = 4% of the fucking internet was uploaded to megaupload.

double edit- with SOPA and the riots and now this NDAA (which now you can be held without a trial) and all this other bullshit


...how come I'm seeing a future with a reality from Mirror's Edge?....just sayin'

 

[Pong20302000]

The conspirators allegedly earned more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and selling premium memberships.

aooarently the charge

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

The conspirators allegedly earned more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and selling premium memberships.

aooarently the charge

like how Julian Assange automatically was charged with "sex crimes"

if the crooked, corrupt government has access to everyones record and digital file...whats not to say they can "make things happen?"

 

[kthnxshwn]

The conspirators allegedly earned more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and selling premium memberships.

aooarently the charge

like how Julian Assange automatically was charged with "sex crimes"

if the crooked, corrupt government has access to everyones record and digital file...whats not to say they can "make things happen?"

Julian Assange was charged with sex crimes well before the Wikileaks incident.

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

*snip


we shall see once they have a domain name....not getting my hopes up

EDIT - all the A-list celebrities who were featured in the rap and the companies that had premium accounts should protest and bitch...they have power don't they??

 

[SinHarvest24]

This is a tragic loss...

 

[xist]

The conspirators allegedly earned more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and selling premium memberships.

aooarently the charge

I posted this earlier a few pages ago but here it is again - the actual indictment.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment

And it's tragic primarily because of all the stuff that's possibly gone for good. There were so many links to small bit's and bob's posted years ago that may now be consigned to history. Same goes for obscure music and user generated content.

 

[kthnxshwn]

bit's and bob's

 

[xist]

bit's and bob's

Yes. Anything other than that random contribution to add?

 

[BORTZ]

It still works under a new URL. I cannot mention it here because of warez. But it still works. And it's not just a browser cashe.

 

[prowler]

It still works under a new URL. I cannot mention it here because of warez. But it still works. And it's not just a browser cashe.

you know there's no way of finding illegal downloads through the site right?

 

[SifJar]

The new URL (the .bz one?) doesn't work for me. There is also an IP address floating around, it "works", but only shows the homepage regardless of what links i click etc.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

... There is also an IP address floating around, it "works", but only shows the homepage regardless of what links i click etc.

It was posted in this thread last night. Some of our members reported that it was automatically downloading a file called "setup.exe".
Didn't get that reaction, myself. But just in case, I removed it.

It may have had something to do with this.

 

[linuxGuru]

Apparently they say "some of the alleged pirated content was hosted on leased servers in Virginia, and that was enough for U.S. prosecutors to act."​

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-19/megaupload-feds-shutdown/52678528/1​