Non issue
There are others, and other will pop out
APNewsBreak: Feds Shut Down File-Sharing Website
One of the world's largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.
An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart online piracy.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15396093
FUUUUU That was my favorite file sharing site.
Edit: Anonymous Responds:
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/0...gaupload-case/It appears that the widespread hacking group Anonymous has taken umbrage to the takedown of Megaupload by the Department of Justice today. So much so that it appears to be taking down the DOJ site in retaliation.
The official Anonymous Twitter account hasn’t accepted responsibility for the act as of yet, but the group is clearly not happy about what has gone down with the Megaupload takedown and indictments:Jason Safoutin@dragonfire1024
BREAKING: In response to seizure of #Megaupload #Anonymous takes down #US Justice Department website justice.gov
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On the other hand, the Anonymous Sweden Twitter account has admitted responsibility for the attack on the DOJ site:Anonymous@AnonyOps
Feds shut down megaupload.com ti.me/A15C5R #censorship ....sigh. This bull[expletive] never ends.
19 Jan 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
The Department of Justice site http://www.justice.gov has been slow since the announcement about Megaupload became public, but it has been up and down ever since, pointing to a potential DDoS attack of some sort.Anonymous Sweden@AnonOpsSweden
#OpPayBack Target: DOWN justice.gov - 15 minutes after feds announce arrest of Megaupload 7, #Anonymous strikes #svpol
19 Jan 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
By following the Twitter hashtag #OpPayBack, you can watch the chatter about the Anonymous attack on both the DOJ site and Univeral Music’s site, calling the operation a “success”.
The website attacks stem from the FBI indictments of seven people associated with Megaupload, which is being accused of numerous counts of copyright infringement. So far, four people have been arrested, including its founder Kim Dotcom.
UPDATE: One of the official Anonymous accounts on Twitter has indeed accepted responsibility for the attack on both the DOJ and Universal Music websites:
AnonOps@anonops
Tango down! universalmusic.com & justice.gov// #Megaupload
Last edited by IronMaxipad; 01-19-2012 at 05:38 PM.
Non issue
There are others, and other will pop out
Congress said WE'LL BLACK YOU OUT!
Sucks even more for the people that paid for Premium accounts/Lifetime accounts. **Ironmexican**
and this is before SOPA
"but sopa won't really shut any sites down"
Maybe, but I don't think this falls under the category of congress not liking anyone competing against them.
the birth of underground www ...........
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/0...gaupload-case/It appears that the widespread hacking group Anonymous has taken umbrage to the takedown of Megaupload by the Department of Justice today. So much so that it appears to be taking down the DOJ site in retaliation.
The official Anonymous Twitter account hasn’t accepted responsibility for the act as of yet, but the group is clearly not happy about what has gone down with the Megaupload takedown and indictments:Jason Safoutin@dragonfire1024
BREAKING: In response to seizure of #Megaupload #Anonymous takes down #US Justice Department website justice.gov
19 Jan 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
On the other hand, the Anonymous Sweden Twitter account has admitted responsibility for the attack on the DOJ site:Anonymous@AnonyOps
Feds shut down megaupload.com ti.me/A15C5R #censorship ....sigh. This bull[expletive] never ends.
19 Jan 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
The Department of Justice site http://www.justice.gov has been slow since the announcement about Megaupload became public, but it has been up and down ever since, pointing to a potential DDoS attack of some sort.Anonymous Sweden@AnonOpsSweden
#OpPayBack Target: DOWN justice.gov - 15 minutes after feds announce arrest of Megaupload 7, #Anonymous strikes #svpol
19 Jan 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite
By following the Twitter hashtag #OpPayBack, you can watch the chatter about the Anonymous attack on both the DOJ site and Univeral Music’s site, calling the operation a “success”.
The website attacks stem from the FBI indictments of seven people associated with Megaupload, which is being accused of numerous counts of copyright infringement. So far, four people have been arrested, including its founder Kim Dotcom.
God forbid people pay to watch movies the right way
At least people in the US are not the only ones that will suffer.
Share our pain rest of the world!
This is where it's going to hurt.. icefilms, at least I kept up with most shows that I wanted to keep up and I can always just dl movies..
DVR will make this hurt a little less.. but this is still an issue.
The 99% has a right to watch movies for free!
i dunno why anyone was dumb enough to do direct d/l tbh. at least run an encryption program if you do.
looks like the site owners were just stupid and flaunting it:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...megaupload.ars
This sucks but again, there are other sites out there that do the same thing.
The one thing that the founder of Wikipedia mentioned was that the figures they cite when claiming damages are often inflated because the studios assume that the content that people are streaming online is content they would consume.
I've watched movies before that I had no intention of paying to see. Black Swan is a perfect example. I would have never bought a movie ticket or rented the movie. But I heard about the lesbian scene and decided what the , let me take a look at it online.
The movie turned out to be very good, but if it wasn't online, there's no way in I would have known because I had no intention of consuming the content.
I use netflix and don't do downloading like others do.
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