[details=Spoiler][LEFT]Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.[/LEFT]
[LEFT][INDENT=5]The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.[/INDENT][/LEFT]
[LEFT][INDENT=5]Megaupload.com has claimed it is diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.[/INDENT][/LEFT]
[LEFT][INDENT=5]The indictment says at one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular website in the world.[/details][/INDENT][/LEFT]
Your innocuous thread title was unnaturally difficult for me to read in one pass.
lol 1 down, 5872968196719871976971986719846 to go
get rid of all the sites, mother fuckers. I’ll just go back to getting my shit of FTP and IRC. All you’re gonna do is weaken the already stupid weak people (who will then learn how to use the advanced file sharing tools).
Goddamnit. How do i get my HD porn now
wow
Retaliation strike!
I was just downloading stuff from megaupload this morning, so weird…
But yeah, this sucks with out the nuggets.
Shit, that’s a blow I didn’t expect. Damn it.
Fuck.
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For a while, I bitched at why fansubbers don’t upload their files on Megaupload when they can simply archive it in a simple zip file and rename the zip file as something unsuspicious since MU doesn’t use Captcha anymore, making it possible for me to batch download with a program such as JDownloader. Guess those who download anime have dodged a bullet (or only been grazed slightly for the most part) since most fansubbers use torrents or upload them on sites that use Captcha and/or have a waiting period between downloads.
This is such a wake up call to me.
Mediafire master race right here.
But still, damn this sucks.
Megaporn is also down. Get angry.
Being able to upload entire movies privately was too great a sin I suppose.
Bloody hell, should have seen this coming really, but it’s still pretty suprising.
Remember when they assumed that shutting down Napster would stop all the file sharing? Or countries banning piratebay? The gov’ts have like zero idea how file sharing occurs, and are acting like dumbass parents, trying to block that one site they caught their son going to, when he will just go to another site right after.
The war on piracy is as effective as the war on drugs
I’m pissed off how 8 year olds are selling drugs and shooting people up but it looks like the city is actually doing something about it:
People need to boycott MPAA, but they shouldn’t be distributing movies that they have no right to distribute on sites like Megaupload either.
Rapidshare will be next.
Noooooooo
NOOOOOO
Keits uploaded videos to Megaupload? I suspect it might contain copyrighted material or terrorist activity. To be safe, I’m going to call the government and they can use SOPA to delete Keits from the internet and then use the NDAA to secure the terrorist without trial and to detain him indefinitely in some undisclosed location.