Megaupload is gone....

[V-Ormix]

that is just disgusting...

[Crashfan3]

Originally Posted by Zageron

Megaupload back
deleted cuz missing kthx

I wouldn't be so quick to believe that site is legit, it's the source page of one http://www.megavideo.bz/
The .bz address is for Belize, the registrant is in Argentina (notice how if you click the twitter link a lot of the tweets are in Spanish?), but Megaupload was based in Hong Kong.
Until I see download links I wouldn't trust it. Any dummy can put that page up.

Originally Posted by TC_Halogen

Anyone who wants more details on this can read here, too.

Hah, this is lulzy. It's misdirected but still so damn lulzy.

[Izzy]

What the F*ck.

[Thatskier]

LMFAO FBI WEBSITE HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN MY ANONYMOUS.

www.fbi.gov/

[00Razor00]

......aren't you late

[vro]

Originally Posted by V-Ormix

that is just disgusting...

This is the kind of shit that makes me think "I hope 2012 happens"

[DarknessXoXLight]

Originally Posted by vro

This is the kind of shit that makes me think "I hope 2012 happens"

[vro]

Originally Posted by darknessxoxlight

bahahahaha

[i love you]

Ugh god damnit...**** you SOPA.

[robertsona]

yes, clearly this shutdown of a site hosting illegal material was mandated by a bill that hasn't even passed yet

[TC_Halogen]

This has no direct correlation with SOPA, but part of me does wonder if the timing of this shutdown had to do with the "blackout" event that happened yesterday.

In any case, I'm wondering how much longer other popular file hosting sites like 4shared, Rapidshare, and Mediafire will have, since they all have bits of pirated content on their servers; they don't seem to be hesitant to bring down these sites, even if a majority of the content is legitimate. I personally can't understand the logic of bringing down a site where a very small portion of the material is violating DMCA laws -- it's ridiculous to pull something that could be holding personal content for many different people.

[Syhto]

its all meant to distract you...
...from your distractions.......... ..........

[justin_ator]

ITT: save all your downloads while you still can elsewhere, file sharing sites are getting shat on

[Emithith]

Originally Posted by Syhto

its all meant to distract you...
...from your distractions.......... ..........

brilliant

Originally Posted by justin_ator

ITT: save all your downloads while you still can elsewhere, file sharing sites are getting shat on

So hide yo .rars
Hide yo torrents
They shuttin down errybady.

[t-rogdor]

this whole deal is kinda shitty and all, and doesn't really bode well for other file sharing sites, but if you think this ruling has literally anything to do with SOPA and/or PIPA, you're ****ing stupid.

if anything it shows why SOPA/PIPA have been presented in the first place; people in congress know literally nothing about technology and care only about buying their seats back.

Originally Posted by robertsona

I feel like after the gov't agents shut megaupload down all of congress and government SOPA supporters went out for pizza and a movie in a limo blasting "*****s in paris" the whole way there to celebrate

pretty sure that happened

fucen dying at the idea of a bunch of old white dudes going ham to *****s in Paris

[robertsona]

Originally Posted by TC_Halogen

This has no direct correlation with SOPA, but part of me does wonder if the timing of this shutdown had to do with the "blackout" event that happened yesterday.

In any case, I'm wondering how much longer other popular file hosting sites like 4shared, Rapidshare, and Mediafire will have, since they all have bits of pirated content on their servers; they don't seem to be hesitant to bring down these sites, even if a majority of the content is legitimate. I personally can't understand the logic of bringing down a site where a very small portion of the material is violating DMCA laws -- it's ridiculous to pull something that could be holding personal content for many different people.

my knowledge of this kind of stuff is not exactly extensive but this seems akin to money laundering? like, if some restaurant is known to be a front for a mob organization, even if there's nothing wrong or criminal about the restaurant itself or the products that restaurant makes/sells per se, it's still going to be shut down because it's a front for criminal activity. same deal here, if the government has to shut down a "legitimate" portion of megaupload to crack down on the piracy (which, as far as i can tell, is the dominant usage/portion of the website), then so be it.

[bmah]

ok, now I'm mad

[~Zeta~]

rip stepmania packs

[Emithith]

I just find it funny how all the news articles I have read so far depict Megaupload as some crime syndicate that is like "notorious" and "a hub of piracy". None of the articles I have read so far actually tell the truth, like "Only about 20% (or some number) of the site had piracy in it."

[Crashfan3]

Like I said in my last post (#82) anyone with a tiny bit of web knowledge and a server can put up that page, then share the IP around to make it sound "secret". The registrant is in Argentina, MegaUpload did not have any staff in South America. So unless download links suddenly appear, that's probably a fake.

Personally I believe UMG is involved in this somehow. That whole scandal with some of their artists appearing on a video put out by MU happened only a month ago. UMG has billions of dollars, and the feds love money.