Sparks Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apnewsbreak-workers-indicted-at-one-of-worlds-largest-file-sharing-sites-megauploadcom/2012/01/19/gIQAJPIRBQ_story.html I assume most of us have other sites to host our fan game downloads anyway, but for those of you that did use Mega Upload, time to fix with new mirrors it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Guess they dont need Sopa. Everyone knows the stuff you can get off Megaupload, but assuming the "vast majority" of the user content is illegal is just fucking stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 this is some straight up bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 WHAT!? This is freaking insane. And damn, I liked Megaupload's free account system... First the mega song fiasco, but now this is way off the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Raven X Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 This sorta came out of nowhere. No fight from MU? And how could they kill it before Pirate Bay? The one with 'pirate' in the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetHawk95 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Cus in Sweden File Sharing is a religion... No shit, There actual prayer is Ctrl C + Ctrl V.. Sweden wont hand the creators over cus it could be seen as an act of racism.. Clever. Damn. Bastards. http://mashable.com/2012/01/05/sweden-religion-file-sharing/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 The Church of Kopimism made me lol hard when I read about it - but hey, if stuff like <certain "religion" a south park episode featured, while making fun of it> can exist... fuck yeah Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 does megaupload include megavideo and megaporn too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Raven X Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 God I hope not. D: Can you imagine paying for porn? That's just not cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 All the mega services are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanGameRevolver Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Megaupload did a lot of things wrong with its business model, that led it to be so populated with pirates. Such as protecting the anonymity of its users for a fee. Effectively promoting and profiting off pirating. There are lots of other smaller details in their model as well. It's frighting that it happened so quickly, but I doubt it would happen to other content hosting sites. Also its a fairly good reminder that we sure as hell don't need SOPA/PIPA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 The people behind MU have quite a history, and this case is definitely connected to it. Keep in mind, only one of the charges is copyright infringement/promotion of it. The other charges are... racketeering and money laundering. So yes, there's quite an underlying story in this case - I guess other filehosters are safe for now, as their policies include the usual dmca requests, account closing, etc. This happened right after the whole SOPA protest, so it does raise a considerable amount of uncertainty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 true. to be honest, another site will pop up in its place. Remember when mininova shut down? everyone boarded their doors and windows shut, ready for the apocalypse and another site just sprouted up. not really bothered, i don't pirate stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strife Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Shouldn't the title of this thread be "Megaupload gets shut down"? xD; Anyway, gsoft's got a point - The site owners are accused of all sorts of nasty things besides harboring pirates, so I don't believe that other file hosting services are in danger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 @Strife: Yeah, pretty much. The timeframe is quite peculiar, though... So it's quite possible that it will throw quite an uproar - especially for subscribed members, even more the ones who paid for a lifetime membership. And if these laws pass... Well, that would be the real hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falk Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Is there anything wrong with Dropbox really, it's convenient, cross-platform and never gets taken down due to copyright infringement or inactivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Hedgehog Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 The fuck? Granted, I don't use MegaUpload very often, but this is absolute bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Raven X Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Anon responds by taking out like the entire legislation lineup. In the span of an hour, they took down the Department of Justice, Universal music group, RIAA, MPAA websites, plus FBI's website, copyright.gov, FBI.gov, the MPAA chief's personal website, the Utah Chiefs of Police Association website, BMI's website, and are working on doing the same to the White House website right now. Don't they have anything better to do? ...guess not, if they can't get stuff off MU. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USC Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 That's...amazing. However, get ready for the 'OMG HACKERS ARE ATTACKING THE US! SEE SOPA AND PIPA WILL PROTECT US FROM THEM!' backlash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailsSena Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Well, I use Mediafire anyway, but this sucks. Every file sharing service on the net has at least a dozen pirates, it's like.. Rule 0 of the internet... Rule -1 is that pirates exist... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/megaupload-indicted-shuttered/ Apparently the reasons weren't -just- about piracy, but money laundering. Interesting to note they were arrested without notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 That's right - As I mentioned previously, there are additional charges aside from the copyright infringement. The fact that this happened right in a critical time where SOPA and PIPA messages spread everywhere is something to be noted, though. Sadly, media exaggerating facts make things harder to understand - a DDoS attack is not hacking - it's easy to do. To compare, if we want someone (users) to be denied access to a room (website), we could change the lock in the door so that the previous key wouldn't work (hacking). Or instead, we can simply shove a shitton of people through the small door frame, making entry impossible. That would be a DDoS - saturating the website with requests, which makes them slow, and eventually unresponsive. It's like the "lifehacker/slashdot effect", only that the point is to take the site out, instead of sharing whatever was on it. And a last thing to note - People are sharing links on twitter/fb/whatever to a pastehtml site, that will essentially turn your browser into a lightweight DDoS cannon. I don't think I need to explain why it's a bad idea to take part in it... So just stay away from these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epon Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 It's okay tho... Swizz Beats is safe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos-Fusion Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Don't use Megaupload but still, I've only seen them as your average file hosting site. Guess anything can happen now if you have some illegal content. Thought Demonoid or Pirates Bay would go first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Megaupload is like the only site that I got full speed as a free user. Aside from Mediafire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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