Megaupload shut down

[Mr.X]

Is there any action being taken to stop this BS?

We don’t have enough money.

[BIGWORM]

http://torrentfreak.com/major-usenet-provider-shuts-down-following-court-order-111106/

It’s coming!!! It’s probably next in line to get fucked in the ass. The fact that it cost money and a bit of tech savvy might be why it’s not as popular as torrent or cloud services but corporations are taking notice.

Honestly, it’s pretty easy as, in general, torrenting, as Newsgroups/Usenet breaks down into 3 parts:

Hosting Service (i.e. Giganews, Astraweb)
Usenet Client (i.e. GrabIt, SABnzbd)
Website to download .NZB files (i.e. NZBmatrix, NZBsrUS)

Broken down a bit, .NZB files are like Torrent files, pointing your client where to grab files from within Newsgroups. Hosting Services, like Giganews, essentially grants you the ability to download in the first place, and that’s the paying part of Newsgroups. Usenet Client sounds exactly like what it implies.

My personal preference for all three parts:

AstraWeb as my hosting service ($11/month)
NZBMatrix as my website to download NZBs (Premium member, one-time $5 fee I believe)
SABnzbd as my client (SMALL footprint, Web-only UI/client viewable only through FF/IE/Chrome)

Pros about Newsgroups is you NEVER, EVER have to worry about seeders/leechers or trying to up your ratio on private trackers. Another pro is, depending on the hosting service, you’re almost guaranteed to max out your connection (I’m currently on a 26/3 connection, or a download rate of ~3.2mb/s. The ONLY con is the monthly price, which is well worth it, IMHO.

[dayday]

Now what have we here?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq

Also-
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2011/111221airvinyl

I’m not buying any of that shit. If you are on a major music label like UMG, you are a slave to them. You can’t do anything without their permission, meaning getting more $ through another channel is a Zero. Right before Megaupload got shutdown, UMG sent a cease and desist to get the videos of their artist promoting the site taking off. I didn’t know they were label slaves like that. I thought as long as it wasn’t a released song, you were good to go.

Itunes reaches everybody now as it is, and it is easy enough to put your music on there. Now if you wanted to make your own music, and not clear any samples and just put it out to get paid, then Megabox would be a good way to get paid illegally.

Megabox is/was a smokescreen.

[Starhammer]

You wouldn’t download a hooker, now would you?

Downloading: Filename: OMFG_Dat.ass

…\\ERROR: The file is corrupted.
…\\ERROR: The file is forbidden.
…\\ERROR: The file contains the following viruses…

me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

-Starhammer-

[Mr.X]

[jinsaotomex3]

Downloading: Filename: OMFG_Dat.ass

…\\ERROR: The file is corrupted.
…\\ERROR: The file is forbidden.
…\\ERROR: The file contains the following viruses…

me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

-Starhammer-

[fullnerd]
.ass files are actually soft subtitle files for videos
[/fullnerd]

[SoVi3t]

picture

Misleading picture. Kim hasn’t even been sentenced yet. I do want to see him take on Mr Wizard in a McRib eating contest though.

And lots of various usenet/magnet links/torrents will go down for a bit while everybody panics. So you have to go back a bit to when the net was still young, and shit was hard to find. It got to be where you can still pretty much find what you need with google. It used to be fucking HARD to find fucking emulator sites back in the day, let alone fully streamed TV episodes or movies.

Give it time, and people will yet again realize they can make $100 million for virtually free, with just that slight risk that the US will come after you, guns blazing. Get in, get out quick, make a quick buck. And the rest of the world isn’t the US, so they won’t give a shit for long.

[de_BLOO]

What is stopping anyone else from trying the proposed MegaBox model?

I think that shit is too good for the artists to forget about it and not be pushing for that to be made.

[NickRocks]

[fullnerd]
.ass files are actually soft subtitle files for videos
[/fullnerd]

[axeman61]

What is stopping anyone else from trying the proposed MegaBox model?

I think that shit is too good for the artists to forget about it and not be pushing for that to be made.

Well, we don’t know what would have happened with Megabox. It’s one of those things that looked too good to be true. Something was bound to fuck it up. From record label lawsuits, to perhaps the artists being entitled to way more money than K.Dotcom anticipated. Hell, maybe it would have just fizzled out. A record label may screw artists out of a lot, but they also provide a lot for the artist to make music. Without those resources, artists would have to fully produce their own albums.

[dayday]

What is stopping anyone else from trying the proposed MegaBox model?

I think that shit is too good for the artists to forget about it and not be pushing for that to be made.

Contracts are what is stopping it.
When you sign a major label deal,you are their slave. You can’t do much without their permission. Independent artists don’t have to worry about that, but also they have other ways to get their music out.

I will give you an example.
Schoolboy Q’s new album came out last week.
1.You can buy a physical copy off his independent label.
2.You can buy it off of itunes & amazon.
3.Why the fuck would anybody go to Megabox to do this? Most people 99% of the population do not even know what Megaupload is. The number is reversed for Amazon & itunes.

Megabox is basically saying we will sale your music at our price, not the price you set.
That doesn’t sound like a good business model, if I’m an artist.

[Starhammer]

[fullnerd]
.ass files are actually soft subtitle files for videos
[/fullnerd]

LOL. Perfect for porn videos. soft.ass

/////////////////////////////ERROR: No such file exists.

me: :wow: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

-Starhammer-

[Mr.X]

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/harvard_prof_megaupload_shutdown_is_an_attempt_to_kill_technology?utm_source=Okay Geek on Digg&utm_medium=Recommendations

Seven Lessons from SOPA/PIPA/Megaupload and Four Proposals on Where We Go From...

[MCP]

I hope SOPA passes.
http://maddox.xmission.com/

Because that’s exactly what we need to wake up from this slumbering, do-nothing, “occupy everything,” stagnant, non-action slump we Americans are in.

Instead of changing your Facebook icon to an anti-SOPA image for a day or two, here’s something you can do that might make a real difference: boycott the companies that supported this legislation. There are too many to boycott all of them effectively, so I propose we pick two or three, hit them, and hit them hard. Punish them for putting their interests above ours. Hitting them in the wallet should send a message.

I’ve been thinking about that list for a few days now. The list is maintained by Wikipedia and updated daily. This is what the information age can accomplish.

I may switch internet service providers from Comcast to another company. This will also mean I stop watching Comcast sports net and many sporting events, including Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League (which does not support SOPA, but is a casualty because the local team is on Comcast sports net tv channel), NBC, CBS, ESPN, and ABC. (FOX doesn’t support SOPA) This means I won’t be watching the Super Bowl since it is on NBC and also because the NFL supports SOPA.**

I will stop buying music unless I am 100% sure they do not support SOPA/PIPA and it’s digital download only.
I will not watch a movie until it is available streaming or for purchase through digital download, eg iTunes, Netflix, and other companies who do not support SOPA and other bills like it. Perhaps this is still not enough, or perhaps I’m a hypocrite for buying movies this way, produced by companies and unions who support SOPA.

I will update when I figure out the new ISP I will be using.

[Tizoc]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10782188
WTF

*US federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday.

US prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content.

The company says its millions of users stored their own data, including family photos and personal documents. They haven’t been able to see their data since the government raids earlier this month, but there has been hope would be able to get it back.

Megaupload hires outside companies to store the data, for a fee. But Megaupload attorney Ira Rothken said Sunday that the government has frozen its money.

**A letter filed in the case Friday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said storage companies Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc. may begin deleting data Thursday. Spokespersons for the two companies and for the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not respond to messages Sunday night.
**
The letter said the government copied some data from the servers but did not physically take them. It said that now that it has executed its search warrants, it has no right to access the data.

The servers are controlled by Carpathia and Cogent and issues about the future of the data must be resolved with them, prosecutors said.

Rothken said the company is working with prosecutors to try to keep the data from being erased. He said at least 50 million Megaupload users have data in danger of being erased.

Rothken said that, besides its customers, the data is important to Megaupload so it can defend itself in the legal case.

"We’re cautiously optimistic at this point that because the United States, as well as Megaupload, should have a common desire to protect consumers, that this type of agreement will get done,’’ he said.

Megaupload is based in Hong Kong. US authorities said they had authority to act because some of its leased servers are in Virginia.

The FBI is seeking to extradite founder Kim Dotcom and three other men from New Zealand to the US to face charges of conspiring to commit racketeering, conspiring to commit money laundering, copyright infringement, and aiding and abetting copyright infringement over the internet through the website Megaupload.

-AP*

[SoVi3t]

What is stopping anyone else from trying the proposed MegaBox model?

apparently prison

[BullDancer]

lol there are only two good filehosting websites for us folks in the U.S now…

It’s either rapidshare or mediafire, no in-between…

A whole bunch of filehosting websites are denying people in the U.S access… I mean I could use a proxy but that seems like way too much trouble…

[ckrazy]

lol there are only two good filehosting websites for us folks in the U.S now…

It’s either rapidshare or mediafire, no in-between…

A whole bunch of filehosting websites are denying people in the U.S access… I mean I could use a proxy but that seems like way too much trouble…

Hotfile, Fileserve, and Nakido all still working for me.

[Rhio2k]

Confirmed: Fileserve is back up for US users.

[shatterstar]

Hotfile, Fileserve, and Nakido all still working for me.

just not their affiliate programs.

HF has a new program.

wondering is there any sites still doing those type of programs.