MegaUpload shut down by US government, four execs arrested

Rapidshare is bigger than Megaupload. These websites and bussiness are covered. They don't out front encourage corighted material to be uploaded and even take down links when requested by the owners or companies. MU must have been involved in other illegal activities to be taken down like this. Of course, it is been twisted so that it seems like their regular business model is illegal( which is not)so that it scares users off from websites like these. (Fileserve, Rapidshare, Filesonic, etc, ect , etc).

What I find funny is they probably think that this will have an impact on the pirating community.

Sure a couple of pirates will get upset because they paid for a subscription and others because their links are now dead.

But Uploaders will be notified, find another Hosting Site and upload there.
Even if you take down all the obviously guilty Content Providers Uploaders will just start making accounts from Content Providers like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Box.net etc... And failing that there is still Torrenting.

I can understand the importance of standing up against Piracy but Megaupload is one out of a huge array of similar sites.

Megaupload has been up for a very long time and just imagine the effort they put in to co-ordinate with countries, Investigate and collect evidence. All this effort to take out one site out of hundreds is the wrong way to go.

Personally I think providing a better service than the pirates will be more effective than what they are doing now.

Trust me, all it takes is ONE file in the cloud that is in violation and that is it. If they can sue and terminate websites like piratebay, which is only storing LINKS to content but not the actual content, then actually STORING the content would be much worse -- regardless of the cloud policy or what the cloud user did.

Terribl

Holy crap. You know what?
The major leaders are citizens of Germany and Finland, they live in New Zealand, but they are captured just because they violate the US laws.
This nation is becoming a terrorist now.

Time to get rid of the US Gov by force. They won't listen to the people and do what the people want, then the people will destroy them. This IS the American Way!!

and so the 2012 apocalypse begins.

If anyone is looking for an alternative to MegaUpload I give a huge recommendation to MediaFire, their site is easy to use and they don't have wait times and you can download as many files as you want without getting cut off like RapidShare and other popular sites do.

The future will look like this:
- when there will be no so called illegal or pirate sites left to distribute free content, the content producers will have to offer the content for free because people will have no money left to buy it.
At that time everyone will be in debt so with what money to purchase ?

If the jury thinks the likely sentence is excessive, it can acquit regardless of the "law" and the facts, and the acquittal is binding. It's called "jury nullification". But the jurors won't be told this in court. They'll need to hear about it from elsewhere. Spread the word!

How the F*** can the US go into another country to stop their website?? Makes no sense...

Damn that sucks! I was about to renew my membership, at least I didn't loose my money!

Here's a fun fact... Lets say you've paid for a membership before with megaupload (I know i have, more than 3 times) The Department of Justice is currently Holding on to your IP address. That is assuming that megaupload keeps its information stored for more than 30 days.

hello ...

"it has begun ...."

& I'm afraid the worst is yet to come (at some point of view)!

& what i've read about some hacker's retaliation plan would just give the perfect excuse for more actions

cheers!

They can't take down thepiratebay, stop acting smart
You don't know how they work, go on their site and read their letter about SOPA
it clearly states that they can't take them down

Could this be the beginning of the sexpocalypse? The end of free porn as we know it....?

Just skimmed over the indictment and man some of this looks really bad. They apparently 'willfully built up a racketeering enterprise since 2005', have several very bad looking e-mails dating back for years, money laundered millions included having rented yachts in the Mediterranean to promote infringement and a lot more if I'm reading this correctly.

So ya...these allegations if true look to be pretty serious and more than just some cloud service which hosted 'copyrighted content' that they tried to police.

+1, this should be more than enough to convince congress that we already have enough laws on the books to handle these situations, if not too many.

Highly unlikely considering they upload everywhere and there are hundreds of tube sites.

I'm wondering if "megaupload" saw the writing on the wall. They changed their name to "Croko file" or something similar a couple of months ago.

Never really used mega, when I did I usually got a virus. But as far as I could tell users paid to upload whatever they wanted and let other download it for free. Idk what money laundering none sense they were doing but I am surprised they got yanked.

RIAA got their way. Sure, the "Mega Conspiracy" are dirty pirates of the interweb, whatever.
Truth is Megaupload used a viable business model which promoted an alternative media outlet besides the traditionnal disc and dvd.
So my question is when will those media companies learn that there is no more zillions to make in CDs? When will they learn they have to shift to a cloud based media outlet?
Offer and demand is the law of economics and anyone can create or duplicate a CD by themselves, it's not a highly demanded and costly item anymore: there is no point putting such a high price tag on those CDs when mp3s take seconds to create at the cost of nothing.
The only way the music business I imagine can work out is if the music artists distribute by themselves their production. Nobody needs a cd factory to share their music, that concept is outdated ever since people encoded .mp3 files from a CD.
About the big music labels,they are desperately holding on to the old ways that made them rich and now they can barely follow the technological progress made by digital distribution.
To all copyright holding artists, I urge you to turn yourself to new music labels that promote artists through media outlets such as Spotify. That's the new way, the future. Don't be as greedy as the boys at UMG and friends....

And that happens right after the UMG youtube takedown bull**** and MegaSong...
Coincidence?
To be honest, a few years ago that might've sounded a bit too theory-ish ti me but now it seems quite possible.