Megaupload shut down

Sp33dking89 · January 20, 2012, 6:35pm

Conspiracy time. I think UMG shut down megaupload.

zenzen · January 20, 2012, 7:10pm

Did Preppy remove them off his site?

Stumblebee · January 20, 2012, 7:14pm

Whoops. Nevermind. Was going off of memory on that one. Glad I’m wrong, tho

SF2GuileX · January 20, 2012, 8:43pm

Anonymous is not amused.

I think universalmusic is still down.

Vynce · January 20, 2012, 10:59pm

I don’t miss the Dr. B jokes. You’re one of the best around.

NickRocks · January 20, 2012, 11:35pm

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Cyntalan · January 20, 2012, 11:36pm

Why Utah?

I mean, other than it being Utah.

Huggy_Bear · January 21, 2012, 12:59am

SOPA HAS BEEN PULLED FROM THE HOUSE BY LAMAR SMITH

He has pulled the bill until further notice, but now this is a victory, only PIPA remains, and I’ve not doubt it will follow suit. This is a hollow victory as SOPA will be back, but the time to possibly reform the bill may just prove unworthy of governmental time.

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Source: Twitter

Tizoc · January 21, 2012, 1:08am

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*A lot of people in “the media” have been talking about the case today, but no one seems to have taken the time to read through the leaked 72-page US government document regarding the indictment. What with Megaupload down, we had nothing better to do so we read the whole thing cover to cover. Here are the juicy details:

The indictment points to “popular linking” sites that help drive traffic to Megaupload. They name Ninjavideo, but Icefilms is never mentioned. How old is this thing?

Elite employees at Megaupload had access to an unadulterated search engine of Megaupload’s contents. That is fucking awesome.

Once Google realized what Megaupload was up to, they pulled all of their Adsense ads. Megaupload responded by developing their own advertising network called Megaclick.

The DMCA compliant tool Megaupload had installed to help major US institutions pull copyrighted files from Mega servers was, of course, flawed. If a user uploaded something like, say, The Hangover, Megaupload would search its servers for a matching file. It would delete the link submitted despite knowing about tens or hundreds or even thousands of other links to the same file. Basically it was a super clever fuck you to the copyright holder.

The US government is clinging to evidence that Megaupload’s owner, Kim Dotcom, shared the song “Nah” by 50 Cent featuring Mobb Deep in 2006. Seriously. This is one of their major claims. “On or about December 3, 2006, KIM DOTCOM distributed a Megaupload.com link to a music file entitled “05-50_cent_feat._mobb_deep-nah-c4.mp3.” He is also accused of having a really fucking stupid name.

Kim is a resident of Hong Kong and New Zealand. He is also a citizen of Finland and Germany.

According to the US government, Kim made $42 million off of Megaupload in 2010.

Megaupload has servers in Virginia, DC, California, and Toronto.

$110 million has flowed through Mega’s Paypal account since 2006.

Megaupload sought to download and re-upload all of YouTube’s content onto its own site, Megavideo, to mask the pirated content that lurked beneath its front page.

“Mega Conspiracy has paid more than $65 million to hosting providers around the world for computer leasing, hosting, bandwidth… Mega Conspiracy affirmatively chose to financially reward specific uploaders of infringing copies of copyrighted content.”

Private emails between Megaupload employees make it very clear that they were were running an illegal operation but didn’t really care. In one exchange, an employee wrote, “We have a funny business… modern days pirates :)” to which another responded, “We’re not pirates, we’re just providing shipping services to pirates :)”

Thanks to their rewards program for loyal uploaders, they paid out 55k to a user who had 5,845 files of Vietnamese content, at least 10 DVD rips, some porn, and (what looked like) an Italian TV series.

Megaupload was paying Carpathia, their Virginia-based hosting company, between $700,000 and $1 million per month from a bank account in Hong Kong.

Cogent Communications, an Atlanta-based ISP, was making a steady $1 million per month from May 2009 until February 2011.

- Megaupload spent $2.4 million on yacht rentals in June 2011 alone.

The US government is after $175 million in assets, including 59 different bank accounts. Many of them Chinese. Two are from Citibank.

The US is looking for at least 14 Benzes, a Predator statue, two 108 inch TVs, a Seadoo, a 1957 Cadillac, a Maserati, and a Mini Cooper.

-Kim owned a Rolls Royce Phantom with a license plate that read “GOD.” Some of the tags on his other cars included: GUITLY, STONED, GOOD, CEO, MAFIA, and HACKER.*

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay…

ElderGOD · January 21, 2012, 1:09am

Doesn’t change anything. He said it had too much time and that next time they will push it through faster and when no one is paying attention, just like Obama back-stabbed America on New Year.

In other news, Anon is going to start targeting the incomes of people like Lamar Smith, Chris Dodd, etc. It looks like things didn’t even begin to get real yet.

The Mega guys did a ton of shady stuff, but why didn’t anyone do anything earlier? Our government intentionally let them get to this point so they could use it to pass legislation that otherwise would have had no chance at passing. Legislation which is basically putting a gun at everyone, even though not everyone is bad.

Carpet_Lint · January 21, 2012, 1:14am

Gotta admit, the whole HACK THE PLANET thing is pretty amusing.

SoVi3t · January 21, 2012, 3:24am

Meh, so he pulled it FOR NOW. He’ll just re-introduce it in a few months. Too much money getting dumped on him to think he’ll just give up.

not to mention this sorta shit happens every couple of fucking years. The DMCA act in '98, PRO-IP act in 2008, in early 2011 we had to deal with the ACTA (Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). They will ALWAYS keep introducing bills like this. They have a lot of money. They want more money. We won a battle, we’re still at war.

Dude, HD porn is still readily available. Hell, I posted the site to go to earlier in this thread…

either way, most people around my office made the switch to http://www.2shared.com/

enjoy

Zebster · January 21, 2012, 3:43am

So do you think they got the information of people who used Megaupload before? I’d dread the thought of what they could do with that information.

SoVi3t · January 21, 2012, 3:59am

if they try to use it, best of luck. Every mother fucker would start arguing about TOR and masking MAC/IP addresses, and it would get hella ugly. Besides, does the US Government really wanna sue and press charges against all their citizens?

…actually, dont answer that question.

EDGEucator · January 21, 2012, 4:18am

One of these days the United States of America is going to arrest the wrong people in the wrong country & we’re going to get attacked on our soil , again. America needs to realize that what their doing (as far as invading other countries & stressing “our” laws , principals & liberties) is bigger than protecting the rights of properties wealthy people have already done milked for 5 lifetimes to support themselves financially.
(Not going to go on a rant , because that will do little here.)
God speed Anonymous , I may be watching you guys fight for our freedoms from Canada. The U.S. is getting frighting with the decisions they are making as of late.

Thinobuns · January 21, 2012, 4:19am

Well thank you, you make my dick feel pixelated all of sudden

Wil · January 21, 2012, 6:25am

The Feds could possibly shut down other cloud storage services like Dropbox (I’m a paid subscriber of their service.

Mashable Editorial: http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/megaupload-sopa-dropbox/

SoVi3t · January 21, 2012, 6:28am

sooooooo the government is going to start shutting down all file sharing. Brilliant idea, idiots. At what point do the tech companies sue the government in retaliation? Or maybe they will start banning MSN so I can’t send people files. Or ban email too. Or ban me from whistling, God forbid I whistle a tune that is owned by the RIAA. Maybe we should ban Fed Ex because a shit ton of people ship drugs around the world with it.

I really can’t wait until you yanks stand up for yourselves and finally deal with your corrupt government

Geese_Pants · January 21, 2012, 10:55pm

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This can’t be true…

Spooty_Whiteboy · January 21, 2012, 11:10pm

That guy is a sensationalist. All of his videos focus on one thing: getting himself more views. He just uses the known formula of scare tactics to get people to watch.