Bye Bye Megaupload

[MiloFoxburr]

One of world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, shut down; company workers indicted

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15396093

Kinda huge. Rapidshare next?

 

[Tai]

I was expecting a story or something... but that's literally all it says XD Here's a better link http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-file-sharing-website/


Anyway, :O :O

 

[Far]

Oh noes. does that mean Megavideo has gone too?

 

[Tai]

The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-file-sharing-website/#ixzz1jw9QLWoo

I'd say so :P

 

[Alecs]

Downupload and Napster too.

 

[MentaL]

just proves they dont need sopa.

 

[Alecs]

A lot of people lost their personal files...pics, documents, etc...

 

[Far]

it'll be back up.

 

[Alecs]

it'll be back up.

Hope so. But if SOPA goes on we're ****ed. The only free media we have will be censored.

 

[Geordiehc]

just proves they dont need sopa.

I was thinking that also.... Unless this is an injuction readying for the introducial of SOPA. Eathier way very bad news, because surely YouTube is the biggest and most common 1 to break copywright laws in this way

 

[Alecs]

I was thinking that also.... Unless this is an injuction readying for the introducial of SOPA. Eathier way very bad news, because surely YouTube is the biggest and most common 1 to break copywright laws in this way

Google too. It has links to sites, images and videos.

 

[JoeDunn]

I was thinking that also.... Unless this is an injuction readying for the introducial of SOPA. Eathier way very bad news, because surely YouTube is the biggest and most common 1 to break copywright laws in this way

most of the copy rights on youtube dont wouldnt stand up in court as most are covered by fair use

 

[Alecs]

www.justice.gov is down thanks to 4chan.

EDIT: www.universalmusic.com down too.

 

[Far]

I hate America. Always spoiling the cool countries fun.

Get out of here America! No one likes you anymore!

 

[Skyline]

Nooooooooooooooo!!

I used MegaUpload for all my films and albums

 

[JealY]

*cough* Usenet *cough*.

 

[Alecs]

*cough* Usenet *cough*.

Yeah, until they close it.

 

[Far]

you can't close usenet. its like torrenting, but with no site to shut down.

well, atleast i presume you can't close usenet >< (excluding newzbin, if you know the domain addresses you should be fine) i remember back in the day when there was NTLWorld, you could download films directly from your own isp

they better not shut down pirate bay, i cba to pay monies for usenet again.

 

[Alecs]

They want ISPs to cap the internet conection to who downloads anything with copyright.

 

[Shabalabalong]

Never really used MegaUpload, not the point though! It starts at MegaUpload, wonder how far they'll take it.

Was reading on wiki, so many companies in favour. Not that many against it, all I remember are Google, Yahoo & Facebook. Didn't take that long to find again, may as well just link it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...fficial_stances_on_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Actually not that bad, seems the opposing list has grown quite a bit!