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whiityp
01-19-2012, 09:28 PM
WASHINGTON--The Federal Bureau of Investigation moved against a group of suspected online pirates Thursday, targeting the popular file-sharing website megaupload.com a day after Washington lawmakers were besieged by complaints about legislation designed to crack down

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204616504577171060611948408.html

expect most of the .com file sharing sites to be pulled in the very near future

longy999
01-19-2012, 09:31 PM
And so it begins........

CloudStrife7x
01-19-2012, 09:49 PM
And so it begins........

The Day of Reckoning is Upon Us :rage:

13Dannyboy13
01-19-2012, 10:53 PM
Total bs :raage: Hollywood just can't face the truth that it's ridiculously expensive to go to a movie, and they've lost their originality, I mean just look at how many remakes there are now. This could get very bad, very fast.....

Emerald Lance
01-19-2012, 10:55 PM
A DARK POWER HAS AWAKENED!!!

SSSTONERRR
01-19-2012, 11:32 PM
:omg:What a epic waste of time and effort on The Federal Bureau of Investigation's part, they will never stop piracy... :hmm:

Besides megaupload.com really... they would have been smarter to move against piratebay/utorrent... But that my opinion :indifferent :

cybersam
01-19-2012, 11:47 PM
well... the funny part about this is... they didn't just shut it down because of copyright crap... no... they added money laundry and conspiracy to it...
americans need to finally wake up... and start a new revolution... or this shit won't end


@stoner...
they can't touch utorrent... as theat is just a client... and there are a lot who use it for legal stuff...
piratebay is out of reach... and kimble is already known(well at least those who used the internet for quite some time should know him or at least know his name) and he was once in jail... (some would say... once a criminal always a criminal)
so what is a better example than kimble for filesharing sites (founder of megaupload) ?!...

Ryudo
01-19-2012, 11:55 PM
Totally speechless about this. Seriously I have no words lol.

It's a good thing I didn't renew my Prem. Account. But yeah, it's on now.

voidmage09
01-20-2012, 12:00 AM
soon ever that is fun is goign to be ban

Noctis Caelum
01-20-2012, 01:05 AM
O no they havent they r back as fast as sonic bitches.....

http://megavideo.bz/

might not show up at first...keep trying but their back
Edit: try double clicking it...lol

whiityp
01-20-2012, 01:52 AM
^^Alot of peeps are saying thats fake! http://megavideo.bz/

I say its not but who knows?

gawl
01-20-2012, 01:57 AM
Damn, I just bought 2 months of premium a week ago :(

DrunkenPriest21
01-20-2012, 02:20 AM
Being an American, and seeing that SOPA, and just plane anything has been doing to the internet. People are going to get tired of their freedoms being taken. I'm honestly one of them. When shit hits the fan, it'll be two sides. The side that is with the Government, the willing sheep that want to follow their masters wherever they go. And then the other side, the sheep who no longer want to follow, the ones who want to become wolves and fight back against the oppression, and such. And I have to say, I'll be part of the group to fight back when that day comes. People were given freedom in America so they they could have the ability to make their own choices, and do what they wish. Taking that away from us, just to make us be more obedient, will only make us fight back harder, and the Government refuses to recognize that. They don't realize they will have a fight on their hands...one that they won't be able to control.

Xenoith
01-20-2012, 02:29 AM
As they say, do not bite the hand that feeds you. That being said, the government does feed us. But do not abuse the animal you take in. We the people have been a pet to the government far too long and this unjust act of censoring the internet has been the last time they will hit us. We will retaliate with such force that it will rock this nation with such an uproar the government will back down, I see the second civil war coming, what about you guys?

JxREALx27
01-20-2012, 02:52 AM
I guess no more Megaupload song LOL! MEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAA...

DrunkenPriest21
01-20-2012, 03:39 AM
As they say, do not bite the hand that feeds you. That being said, the government does feed us. But do not abuse the animal you take in. We the people have been a pet to the government far too long and this unjust act of censoring the internet has been the last time they will hit us. We will retaliate with such force that it will rock this nation with such an uproar the government will back down, I see the second civil war coming, what about you guys?

I very much have to agree with you Xenoith. I have no doubt there will be another one. And they'll have no one to blame but themselves.

Sephiroth
01-20-2012, 03:43 AM
As they say, do not bite the hand that feeds you. That being said, the government does feed us. But do not abuse the animal you take in. We the people have been a pet to the government far too long and this unjust act of censoring the internet has been the last time they will hit us. We will retaliate with such force that it will rock this nation with such an uproar the government will back down, I see the second civil war coming, what about you guys?

No right minded person with even a modest understanding of how the web functions can think that SOPA/PIPA is the right way to address things.

DrunkenPriest21
01-20-2012, 03:46 AM
No right minded person with even a modest understanding of how the web functions can think that SOPA/PIPA is the right way to address things.

so very true Sephiroth. SO very true, yet some think it is. Because they have no sense of right and wrong anymore. Or any sense to know that freedom doesn't mean taking things away from people.

Goku
01-20-2012, 04:14 AM
Funny, Megaupload has enough funds to make a new site everyday. They can just move the server. So it would be a different domain name, but same exact website.

Acedia
01-20-2012, 04:48 AM
i dont mind them shutting down 1 website here and there, its actually good imo because then the masses wont be pirating, if they keep shutting down the big sites, only ppl who know where to look will be able to get stuff

BrayWyatt
01-20-2012, 04:55 AM
not like this is gonna stop it. its not like you cant send someone a dvd in the mail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lXau4TDt7M&feature=player_embedded

Noctis Caelum
01-20-2012, 05:32 AM
No right minded person with even a modest understanding of how the web functions can think that SOPA/PIPA is the right way to address things.
Key thing in this whole statment seph(right minded) pretty much meaning common fucking sense LOL....which alot of ppl lack thus is y this SOPA/PIPA event even occured...Morons

Paprika
01-20-2012, 09:34 AM
not like this is gonna stop it. its not like you cant send someone a dvd in the mail.


Unless the government somehow gets to the point where it checks everyones mail. Thinking about it if Sopa passes, whats to stop this as another way to stop piracy.

Its a damn shame MU has been shutdown, was one of the better sites.

Sephiroth
01-20-2012, 09:54 AM
The music company had been locked in a legal battle with Megaupload over a YouTube video that featured many of Universal Music's signed artists promoting Megaupload's site. :whut:



megaupload terminated by DOJ owner arrested and going court soon.
megaupload taken down OMG... read more here:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/19/technology/megaupload_shutdown/
fbi home page taken down fbi.gov shutdown omg anomymous powa
U.S united state Government takes megaupload down omg r u serious!
megaupload closed down anonymous strikes back shuting down the major site after tweeting.
ne of the U.S. government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns ever, federal agents on Thursday arrested the leaders of and shut down Megaupload.com, a popular hub for illegal file sharing.

Hours later, Megaupload's fans turned the table on the feds. "Hacktivist" collective Anonymous said it set its sights on the U.S. Department of Justice and apparently knocked the agency's website offline.

"We are having website problems, but we're not sure what it's from," a DOJ spokeswoman told CNNMoney.

The DOJ website glitches came soon after various Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous took aim at the agency.

Anonymous's favorite weapon for these attacks is what's called a "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack, which directs a flood of traffic to a website and temporarily crashes it by overwhelming its servers. It doesn't actually involve any hacking or security breaches.

"One thing is certain: EXPECT US! #Megaupload" read one tweet from AnonOps that went out mid-afternoon.

One hour later, the same account tweeted a victory message: "Tango down! http://universalmusic.com (http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Funiversalmusic.com%2F&session_token=I8-4NQqg-LWXoiWA_2FfRzz_gJB8MTMyNzEzNTE5OUAxMzI3MDQ4Nzk5) & http://www.justice.gov// (http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2F%2F&session_token=I8-4NQqg-LWXoiWA_2FfRzz_gJB8MTMyNzEzNTE5OUAxMzI3MDQ4Nzk5) #Megaupload"

Universal Music's website also went down Thursday afternoon. The music company had been locked in a legal battle with Megaupload over a YouTube video that featured many of Universal Music's signed artists promoting Megaupload's site.

The websites of the Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America also went down Thursday afternoon. On Twitter, AnonOps took credit for the crashes.

The Anonymous attack came soon after the DOJ announced the indictment of seven individuals connected to Megaupload for allegedly operating an "international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works."
RIAA (Recording Industry Association Of America) und MPAA (Motion Picture Association Of America) auch down.

Ryudo
01-20-2012, 11:42 AM
Twitter - @AnonymousWiki


January 19th, 2012

Popular file-sharing website megaupload.com gets shutdown by U.S Justice - FBI and charged its founder with violating piracy laws. Four Megaupload members were also arrested. The FBI released a press release on its website which you can view here:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-department-charges-leaders-of-megaupload-with-widespread-online-copyright-infringement

We Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz. The FBI didn't think they would get away with this did they? They should have expected us.



#OpMegaupload
The following sites were taken down in response to the FBI shutting down megaupload.com
:) TANGO DOWN


justice.gov
universalmusic.com
riaa.org
mpaa.org
copyright.gov
hadopi.fr
wmg.com
usdoj.gov
bmi.com
fbi.gov


DOX of MPAA CEO Chris Dodd (original: http://pastebin.com/mvLYNdWB)

Name: Christopher John Dodd, Jr.
Birthdate: May 27, 1944
Age: 67
Religion: Roman Catholic
Party Affiliation: Democratic Party
High School: Georgetown Preparatory School, Bethesda, MD
University: BA English Literature, Providence College (1966)
Law School: JD, University of Louisville School of Law (1972)
Occupations: US Senator, Connecticut (1981-2011), US Congressman, Connecticut 2nd (1975-80)
Current Position: Motion Picture Association of America Chairman & CEO (2011-Present)

Wife: Jackie Marie Clegg Dodd
Age: 49
Religion: Mormon
High School: Orem High School, Orem, UT
University: BA Communications and Political Science, Southern Utah State College (1987)
University: MA National Security Studies, Georgetown University
Occupation: Clegg International Consultants LLC Managing Partner (2001-Present)

Children: Grace Dodd (10), Christina Dodd (8)

Address 1:
8 7th Street Northeast, Washington, DC 20002-6022
Phone Number: (202) 548-6040
Property Value: $997,000 [http://bit.ly/A7wfpb]

Address 2:
53 Main Street, East Haddam, CT 06423-1305
Property Value: $453,400 [http://bit.ly/ynBXN0]

Motion Picture Association of America Corporate Offices:

Washington, D.C.
1600 Eye St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: (202) 293-1966
Fax: (202) 296-7410

Los Angeles
15301 Ventura Blvd., Building E
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Phone: (818) 995-6600
Fax: (818) 285-4403

New York
200 White Plains Road 1st Floor
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Phone: (914) 333-8892
Fax: (914) 333-7541

Chicago
1010 Lake St.
Suite 422
Oak Park, IL 60301
708-660-0481
Phone: (708) 660-0481
Fax:(708) 660-0484

Dallas
1425 Greenway Dr.
Suite 270
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Phone: (972) 756-9078
Fax: (972) 756-9402

Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rua Jerônimo da Veiga, 45, Conj 121/122, 12º Floor
Jardim Europa, São Paulo, S.P
04536-000, Brazil
Phone: 011-55-11-3667-2080
Website: www.mpaal.org.br

Brussels, Belgium
Motion Picture Association
Brussels office
Avenue des Arts 46 box 8
B - 1000 Brussels
Phone: +32 2 778 27 11
Fax: +32 2 778 27 00/+32 2 778 27 50

Mexico City, Mexico
Lafontaine #42
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Mexico, 11560 DF
Phone: 011-5255 5280 6878/5281 6090

Singapore
#04-07 Central Mall
No. 1 Magazine Road
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Phone: +65 6253 1033
Phone: +65 6255 1838
Website: www.mpa-i.org

Toronto, Canada
55 St. Clair Avenue, West
Suite 210
Toronto, ON M4V 2Y7
Phone: (416) 961-1888
Phone: (416) 968-1016
Website: www.mpa-canada.org

MPAA Email: [email protected]

Other Contact Info:
Website: http://chrisdodd.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SenChrisDodd
Twitter: http://twitter.com/SenChrisDodd
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SenChrisDodd
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/SenChrisDodd
Miscellanous: http://www.peekyou.com/chris_dodd/229085828

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect Us.

@AnonymousWiki

Welp, this story is far from over. We're probably looking at a serious internet war, even bigger than last night's.

As for MU being shut down.. it's not even just the piracy thing that makes it troubling, a lot of companies/people, uploaded legit files there as back up, but this is now removed without warning. MU was one of the biggest and most used filehosts, lots of companies used it to provide files/documents to their clients. The FBI/US Government pretty much crippled those companies.

MishimaZero
01-20-2012, 06:49 PM
I can't believe it °_°

Ryudo
01-20-2012, 09:26 PM
Megaupload lawyer Q&A on DOJ criminal case
Megaupload.com is going to fight the federal indictment against it and seven of its employees. The company, attorney Ira Rothkin says, wasn’t given due process and believes there are several legal precedents that will absolve it from the FBI’s criminal case.
Here’s an edited version of an interview late Thursday with Rothkin on the music and video file-sharing and storage site’s defense:


Q: Introduce yourself and what your initial reaction is to the criminal indictment.
A: I’m Megaupload’s outside litigation counsel. We heard about the indictment for the first time by reading the DOJ’s press release today. It was in the morning Pacific Time.
There was a complete lack of notice and opportunity to be heard by Megaupload. That raises some serious due process concerns that the government could shut down an entire series of Web sites without a court hearing the other side.

Q: Didn’t the FBI approach you about its concerns or its intention to file the indictment?
A: Never did law enforcement reach us. Megaupload has never been found to be (a) copyright infringer. There are no civil or criminal judgements against us. This was all done through a secretive process, an indictment process in Virginia where Megaupload was never able to bring up its side.

Q: They have much evidence in their indictment of illegal activity. They have seized not only the site but assets of employees. How will you defend yourself?
A: The allegations in the indictment appear very similar to the types against popular sites in civil cases like YouTube. YouTube ultimately prevailed in its case.
Megaupload will vigorously defend itself in this case, and we believe we will likely succeed.

Q: Did Megaupload know it was hosting the illegal transfer of copyrighted files?
A: It’s difficult if not impossible to know the answer to that question. But even if you assume that users are uploading infringing works, under the Supreme Court (opinion in a previous case), you could still pass substantial non-infringing uses and be immune from liability and process.

In a second case, Sony prevailed when sued over Betamax (video recording) with the Supreme Court saying it wasn’t liable for infringing copy as long as it was capable of substantial non-infringing uses.
So at a very minimum, the case is of first impression against a cloud storage company where there are robust defenses where the government has acted in what appears to be an aggressive and needlessly aggressive way.

Q: What about knowledge of illegal content, though?
A: Under the YouTube standard, in which YouTube prevailed, it’s not enough for an Internet service provider to have even a healthy knowledge that illegal files are stored on a site. It has to have specific notice by copyright owners before it is held responsible for it. Otherwise YouTube would only be as good as some hearsay on it. There would be no YouTube today if that was not the standard.

It seems rather curious that the government would act so aggressively especially given the risk that at the end of the day they could be wrong.

Q: What do you mean by the risk?
A: If they are wrong, given the fact that they have taken down a site completely, there is no way to unring the bell. If it ends up being that Megaupload wins its criminal case, the fact that the government acted to take down the site and dried up all traffic, it will be virtually impossible for the site to be resurrected.

Q: What next? How long will the site be down?
A: Can’t say. That will ultimately be decided by the court. Right now we are in the process of retaining criminal defense counsel.

Q: What about your employees that were arrested?
A: Four have been arrested in New Zealand and counsel has been retained in New Zealand in that issue and to communicate with them.
As for the others, we aren’t certain.

Q: What is the status of CEO Kaseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean?
A: In terms of CEO, my understanding is that there wasn’t actually a CEO of the company. He is almost a CEO.

Q: What does that mean?
A: I don’t think he was officially the CEO. He was still in negotiation on that.

Q: Has anyone in the U.S. been indicted?
A: Not to my knowledge.

Q: Why was this indictment in Virginia, for a Hong Kong based company?
A: Apparently there were some servers used by Megaupload sites in Virginia.

offsafety
01-27-2012, 05:53 AM
I almost couldn't believe it when I saw it. I've been affected, to say the least.

TheEternalHate
01-27-2012, 07:54 AM
Megaupload users are now suing the FBI.
http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-users-plan-to-sue-the-fbi-over-lost-files-120126/

ghostyoeri
01-27-2012, 01:05 PM
armageddon, its the end of a lifestyle, fucking goldiggers al they care about is the money. they should be happy that so many people get to see what they created in hollywood, instead they go and cry out to the FBI, because the millionairs get a few dollars less. american goverment is scoring points as always. :tire:

Deatho0ne
01-31-2012, 05:05 AM
There are no such things as a no remake. They might change the names, gender, and few other things, but most stuff is from books way before the 1800's.

Just examples there are a ton more.
Movies - Stop paying actors/actress $1mil+ a movie. Stop thinking you are going to make $70mil+ a movie.
TV - I see 3 shows that have come out in the last 12 months, that have the same theme as a show I watched 20+ years ago.
Music - Stop making singles that suck, but are chart toppers because of radio. The best music is at the local pub from the group that is making $100 a night.
Games - Stop thinking that a game for the masses sells better than a game that is for the 30+ year old fans. Yes, you will make allot $60, but those 30+ are sometimes willing to pay $2k plus for some of the toys that are made from the games.

Until most of these divisions figure this out, you will always have Free DLing of them. There are 2 ways to stop free DLing in a country; 1. make all of them free (my advice), 2. ban the internet completely. If another country has Free DLing you can get to them, around or through the firewall and other known blocking methods.

Noctis Caelum
01-31-2012, 05:45 AM
it sucks that this did shutdown cause now all my links are dead and i dont feel like reuploading everything..

CloudStrife7x
01-31-2012, 06:05 AM
it sucks that this did shutdown cause now all my links are dead and i dont feel like reuploading everything..

now i have no sites left to download movie or anime from =(

Noctis Caelum
01-31-2012, 06:19 AM
now i have no sites left to download movie or anime from =(
i'll find u one give me a day lol

CloudStrife7x
01-31-2012, 06:21 AM
i'll find u one give me a day lol

well actually im waiting for my buddy McWxXx he can find anime download sites like nobodies business, but he is busy with school XD, but i will await for his return no homo lol

Noctis Caelum
01-31-2012, 06:30 AM
well actually im waiting for my buddy McWxXx he can find anime download sites like nobodies business, but he is busy with school XD, but i will await for his return no homo lol
fine i dont wanna help anyway..lol hope he finds them so i can start watching

CloudStrife7x
01-31-2012, 06:33 AM
fine i dont wanna help anyway..lol hope he finds them so i can start watching

lol when he does i will start uploading the V.I.P. animation section :)

Noctis Caelum
01-31-2012, 06:40 AM
lol when he does i will start uploading the V.I.P. animation section :)
cool im vip all day every day

69bigplayer69
01-31-2012, 07:41 AM
to good freind red pics

Noctis Caelum
01-31-2012, 07:50 AM
to good freind red pics
ur avatar is funny as hell and also mean

Ryudo
01-31-2012, 10:00 PM
Best alternative is Rapidshare right now. Which is basically where I already put my stuff in the first place.

xxXENOPIRATExx
01-31-2012, 10:09 PM
5215:raage:

hamako
02-01-2012, 02:58 AM
well this is just the beginning. sooner or later it will be the government vs the U.S. citizen in a gun fight. this means war :/

Deatho0ne
02-01-2012, 03:25 AM
Personally I think if it gets to where the internet is just disconnected in the US. The US/World will have bigger issues than DLing stuff for free.

strez
02-22-2012, 07:40 PM
rapidshare sucks right now. the download speed ist just 30kb/s... it sucks -.-

pieter1212
02-22-2012, 09:22 PM
ACTA RUINING INTERNET ^^

Valheru
02-22-2012, 11:17 PM
ACTA RUINING INTERNET ^^

Well seems in Europe ACTA sure isn't a done deal. Seems several EU countries have suddenly turned against it.

lxLightxl
02-23-2012, 01:00 AM
I Guess I'm back to downloading with 50kb/sec 5652

vjpowell
02-23-2012, 10:31 PM
You think the government will have better things to do then taking down something like Megaupload. :brzzzzz:

TrevorNP
02-28-2012, 03:32 AM
mega-upload was very convienient i hope it comes back soon!

sets213
02-29-2012, 02:31 AM
Suck so bad! most of my content I downloaded and uploaded was suddenly gone on that horrible shut down day. I hope it comes back online soon.

Judd
02-29-2012, 02:33 AM
Suck so bad! most of my content I downloaded and uploaded was suddenly gone on that horrible shut down day. I hope it comes back online soon.
They won't be back online trust me.

I had 400+ movies uploaded on MU, 150 or so TV Shows, a few Xbox games, heaps of JTAG content and I lost it all :(
To make it worse lots of the uploads I never had on my PC anymore either..

rana
03-06-2012, 06:33 PM
dam governmnet :/ now where are we going to get free stuff. haha

TheLastDude
03-07-2012, 01:30 AM
well i think a good quality file host that could be a suitable alternative is filenuke

has anyone ever tried that before?

what about mediafire?

it looks set to replace megaupload and they both start with 'm'.

uhModz
03-12-2012, 10:49 PM
Sopa will pay for this....

lxLightxl
03-14-2012, 09:41 PM
It sucks so much, i mean almost everything is on megaupload now it's gone :/