MegaUpload shut down by US government, four execs arrested

Well now i have a problem will have to migrate to torrents completely.

"The charges stand "among the largest criminal copyright cases investigations ever brought by the [US]" and investigations are underway in the Netherlands, Philippines, UK, Hong Kong, Germany, and Canada."

... Interesting. We know how the first two of those countries are regarding these kinds of things, more so for the Asian country among the two, which virtually doesn't have any strict cybercrime laws. They're probably not going to get anything from investigating in those countries.

Finally some justice!

Seems like the pirate days of so many thief's are coming to an end.. and i am very glad of this turn of event's.
I hope that this trend will continue to all the major and small filesharing companies.

Oh noes! I'll have to use one of the 50 other http download sites or bittorrent or usenet or gnutella or irc, or if all else fails, actually pay for ****!

Acquittal means the jury would find the defendant(s) not guilty. The reason jury nullification doesn't happen often may be more that the jury actually thinks the person is guilty than because they don't know about it. Why would you acquit someone who has been proven beyond reasonable doubt to have committed the crime?

I'm not on the jury so I'm not about to hang Dotcom and his associates, but the evidence is pretty damning, and it looks like he's probably guilty.

Also, if the people automatically assuming this is just about piracy would take off their tinfoil hats for a second, they'd notice that a lot of the money numbers being thrown around involve actual money that these guys allegedly spent, not imaginary money "lost to piracy".

I would assume that the will of the people will pervail. Other sites have been obliterated by such legal wranglings, such as MiniNova a couple of year ago. Kazaa and other sites as well have had to either shut down or modify the way they do business. There is a new program called Telex that will basically make the whole internet a proxy server, letting you slip into any website undetected and unstoppable. That may come into being if SOPA and whatever else the legal beagles try to conjure up in an effort to enforce internet censorship.

Just shows up much the general public actually knows about pirates.

Real pirates don't use Torrents or Megashare, Mega upload etc etc.

The only thing this will do it is make it more difficult for the novice users to get free stuff.

This isn't going to do anything to the real scene.

This is ridiculous...!
Why don't they take down yahoo, msn, youtube, opera and others down aswell? Yahoo and msn messenger offer file sharing aswell, and opera browser has a file sharin system aswell.
What would be left of the internet? Government sites? No thanks.

Haven't you been paying attention? The US can apparently enter any other country and do whatever it wants to.

nice job USA & New Zealand. Let's put these prick-less pirates into butt rape jail where they belong! Next up, get those anonymous losers, they should be easy to find with their pasty skin, lack of a job or girls, and live in their mom's basement!

"Haven't you been paying attention? The US can apparently enter any other country and do whatever it wants to. "

As it should be! Third world countries need to learn not to mess with the best!

Nice joke

That is simply not true.

(signed)
Pakistan


In other news, these guys seem like chuckleheads...

[ Source: New Zealand news site "Stuff" ]

WOW... I guess being an internet storage hub, isn't as convenient and innocent as we all thought. But I guess businesses are just fighting each other just to stay online. Still, did SOPA started all of this ...

Well all I can say things are changing.. That site an other sites like that will fall down too like Mediafire I am sure that's next to go. Best pull the network cable and transfer your funds to hidden account and go under hiding if you can get away with it. But I am sure the they know who and what your doing already.

So no more Mega Uploads - Regular and Premium access...

What were you expecting from someone who calls himself, "Kim Dotcom"?

How did the police get into Dotcom's "safe room" anyway, whisper his "safe word"...? :haha:

hello ...

I forgot, was just a bait ... & yes at some point the real target would be to scare novice into seeking legit stuffs...

the real problem would be ignorance, from a recent personal survey, i found that most pirates in my zone didn't even know that they were so, didn't know that there are cheaper or free alternatives & worst, didn't have the choice in the 1st place ... taking in consideration 1 new lappy owner who got everything original with his device & another 1 who bought a desktop with unofficial OS + apps took it for granted that was legit even without any COA/Documents to state so ...

I even met a new PS3 owner who was happy he bought a 'modified' console with at least 5 games pre-installed while was surprised when was made aware of the impossibility of going online with it without losing his games ... the customer didn't want limitations, but had no facts ...

I know lot of mega* site dwellers who thought was normal and they even thought I was dumb not doing so !

It has begun & even if i don't really like it, sometimes we have no choice ...

cheers!

Although the appeal of getting something for digital content for free is appealing - taking someone's content that they had no intent of giving away is stealing, plain and simple.

If the same thing happened to a good or service you produced - you'd be pissed and want a bunch of laywers and the government to do something about it.

There may be better business models to handle todays tech - but it's still a "business" model and there is no free lunch.

Stopping theft isn't big brother - it's big business and for one like getting a paycheck for what I do.

"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)."

Do you have access to, and, have you read the criminal complaint and filings in this case? I haven't. So, I cannot intelligently express an opinion on their merits. As chic and l33t as it may be to take the knee-jerk position of "Big Brother is at it again.", serious people will examine the facts and only then formulate an opinion. I think the Internet and its integrity deserve no less.

And, we all KNOW that the existing laws are ineffectual. I'll wager that not ONE person Web-savvy enough to read and/or post here has NOT downloaded something *illegal* from Megaupload and/or a similar source!

The sites that do not host the files but, rather, point us to the source of the files are equally culpable.
"I don't actually have the drugs but, for a fee, I will point you to the source that has."

Let's not play coy, innocent and naive. Those of us who *love* the Internet have done a poor job of policing and protecting it ourselves and, therefore, have CAUSED a LEGITIMATE demand to gain traction that 'someone' do it for us. We have been either a part of the solution or a part of the problem.

Personally, I admit to not having done my part.

Honestly now, have all of you?