ATTENTION! MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDS!!

[SegNin]

From the NY Times:

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

An 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 Web sites 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 that at one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular Web site in the world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/te...th-piracy.html

[Nemkoon]

Well fuck. Time to switch to mediafire.

[Supreme Warrior]

Well fuck. Time to switch to mediafire.

Nope, I bet you a million bucks they are going to tighten security measures to
make DAMN SURE they dont become megaupload # 2

[Joe Blog]

Shit, what all the admins going to about the roms

[Gypsy]

Damn it. The man strikes again.

I assume MU was based in the US?

[Englebert3rd]

Damn it. The man strikes again.

I assume MU was based in the US?

Hong Kong, actually.

But it's terribile new actually, I'm kinda sorry for the people who paid their Premium accounts. But it's a load of bull anyway, they should've charged the people who upload the illegal stuff on the site, not the owners. It's like charging the landlord of a building where a person has been killed.

[thatonewhiteguy]

nope the fucked up part is that MU is hong kong based

[JKDarkside]

nope the fucked up part is that MU is hong kong based

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That doesn't mean diddly when you have about 500 servers stationed in Virgina, plus 1000s more elsewhere in the country.

[Demihan]

This is crazy how every file sharing site is going down. When the dust clears, we will be left to deal with cloud storage services backed by companies that support SOPA & PIPA.

[Slacker Magician]

Crap indeed. This makes me a little worrisome about having things uploaded period.

[Majinkura]

Crap indeed. This makes me a little worrisome about having things uploaded period.

I have to agree with this - the hell with uploading all my stuff again >__<
i'm done.

[Gypsy]

Yeah, Mediafire is based in Cali, so they are not safe from the gigantic penis of the US government.

Shitty foreign filehosts go! *sigh*

[Ragnar]

Wow, everything is down... I'd kinda like to see their inevitable counterclaim, shutting down the 13th most popular site on the net costs $$$. If they feds aren't successful they could easily get hit with Megauploads lost income.

[Supreme Warrior]

Wow, everything is down... I'd kinda like to see their inevitable counterclaim, shutting down the 13th most popular site on the net costs $$$. If they feds aren't successful they could easily get hit with Megauploads lost income.

Oh they will do whatever they can to win, aka Bribe the Judge etc. etc.

After all you are Guilty until proven innocent.

[foggy_han]

After all you are Guilty until proven innocent.

It should be the other way around... I think...

(but then again, some people just do whatever they want, right? )