Megaupload is gone....

[Aldentron]

Originally Posted by Bluearrowll

aw dammit I decided i'd format a bit and someone ninja's me in the process?

i'm in the same boat. installed linux earlier this week, luckily i've still got what.cd...

Originally Posted by V-Ormix

SOPA = Stupid Old People on Acid

hey hey now, i doubt stupid old people on acid support sopa any more than you do.

here are all the other quotes i liked in this thread. congrats to everyone, this thread was hardly as stupid as i thought it would be.

Originally Posted by Emithith

edit: lol I like how they misrepresent Megaupload by calling it a "piracy hub". Whoever wrote this article is kinda dumb.

Originally Posted by dragonmegaXX

They lost 500 million dollars that no one would have spent on their stuff anyways.

Good job

Originally Posted by Zageron

Megaupload and Rapidshare are terrible services anyways. Mediafire for life!

Originally Posted by UserNameGoesHere

Can the older generations that support oppression just die off already? The good thing about the human condition is people die. Generations die. And sometimes only then can meaningful change take place. They can't hold onto their power forever. You lose the good with the bad but so it goes.

Originally Posted by who_cares973

[Jerry DB]

lil wayne makes me soooo mad

[MagicCarpetRide]

Originally Posted by Jerry DB

lil wayne makes me soooo mad

His music is terrible but I can respect him after his interview with Katie Couric and the Carter documentary.

[customstuff]

If they take down zippyshare I'm going to flip

P.S. http://109.236.83.66

[xVaLoRx]

Originally Posted by customstuff

P.S. http://109.236.83.66

this wont save the gone sm packs

[00Razor00]

Originally Posted by customstuff

If they take down zippyshare I'm going to flip

P.S. http://109.236.83.66

in b4 this is just another scam/phising/ddos site

[welsh_girl]

Internet will never be the same again. RIP

[jprox445]

Will.I.Am, Shaun Combs and Kim Kardashian are F*ggots anyway >.>
They may win this but we got a shit load of other websites anyway XD

[Charlo]

Sucks for all the people who had legitimate content uploaded. But if Megaupload's employees really did condone piracy, it makes sense to shut them down.

[linus]

Am I the only one who doesn't care? I was never able to use Megaupload anyway. They blocked Hong Kong's IPs.

[Profraine]

Megaupload was too clunky to use for me, unless I could only use Megaupload for what I needed.

[UserNameGoesHere]

The problem isn't specifically that Megaupload was shut down. Big picture, if that was the full extent of it, it wouldn't matter. The problem is the ramifications. What does this mean for similar kinds of sites? And so forth.

If Megaupload actually was condoning piracy and was not merely serving as a neutral tool and if that is the only reason they were shut down then I'm okay with this. Some sources seem to suggest as much. However, if they were merely serving as a neutral tool and/or if this also applies to services which are mere neutral tools, then justice was not served that day.

The one thing I read which suggests they may have been condoning piracy (rather than serving as a neutral service) is that apparently rather than storing each upload individually, if any binary-compared equal to some existing upload then rather a link was stored to that original instead. And when a DMCA takedown notice was issued on any link, they only deleted links rather than the material actually stored on the servers. I don't know if that is true but if it is then that is reason enough to take them down (and a very stupid move on their part -- removes them from "safe harbor" and such).

I guess we'll find out soon enough if other file storage sites start getting shut down.

[pokelda]

Originally Posted by indictment

kk.

On or about July 9, 2008, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail to a third-party, entitled “funny chat-log.” In the e-mail, VAN DER KOLK copied the text of a previousonline conversation between himself and ORTMANN, in which VAN DER KOLK had stated,“we have a funny business . . . modern days pirates ” ORTMANN responded, “we’re notpirates, we’re just providing shipping services to pirates ”.

Originally Posted by indictment

ppp.

On or about January 28, 2010, in an e-mail entitled “activating oldcountries,” a user of a Mega Conspiracy site asked BATATO: “where can we see full movies?”BATATO replied “You need to go to our referrer sites. Such as www.thepiratecity.org orwww.ovguide.com[.] There are the movie and series links. You cannot find them by searchingon MV directly. That would cause us a lot of trouble

lol yeah i dunno why you guys are calling foul on this since megaupload p much flaunted the law

[pokelda]

also i hope kim dotcom gets 50 years no joke

[Hatsune_Miku]

Who let you out of TGB?

[A2P]

who let you out of the basemen-

nvm

[supermousie]

Originally Posted by A2P

who let you out of the basemen-

nvm

o sum1 take miku 2 the burns unit

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by Profraine

Megaupload was too clunky to use for me, unless I could only use Megaupload for what I needed.

But it was more streamline than mediafire.

[SeraphinEveles]

some news on megaupload:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ

[who_cares973]

gg stepmania gg