MegaUpload.com shut down.
 

As I've seen a few of the developers on here post links to Megaupload for us to download some apps and config files I thought it best to give a heads-up to this story:

Megaupload shut down.

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2 years of investigation, a music based CEO (Swizz Beats) and getting closed on the eve of SOPA being put down to rest for good... hmm.

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My thoughts exactly "If we're gonna go down lets take the biggest site with us."

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Wow so what sites are going to be next ?

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I've heard Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and Facebook will also be completely shut down for protesting against Big Brother.

How will people find websites, venues and information then make a video of it and send it to their 3,000 friends who will translate that unto a public encyclopedia ?!?!?!?

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We had our own SOPA style war over here in the UK. Lasted over 15 years.
Things didn't go so far as dozens of websites being hacked in a tit for tat, but it was damn nasty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACS:Law.
This guy was just sending out speculative letters to individuals, not businesses, but members of the public, just on a whim.

He was demanding lists of ISP's customers and their browsing habits, picking randomly and sending letters.

IMO the media industry shouldn't have been given carte blanche rights to take the law into their own hands, often riding roughshod over anyone who happened to stumble upon a file sharing site. They were supposed to be regulated, but a lot of their actions were often overlooked once a backhander had been paid to th regulators.

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@ gerbick SOPA is not dead yet, MPAA and friends are not done. The 94 million they spent getting the legislation written will be fought for tooth and nail.

@kangal English WIki, Reddit and boing boing shut down yesterday ..wiki left a loop hole the mobile site/api was still working. Still there were huge amounts of people complaining on twitter. Herpderpipedia was retweeting them, honestly I worry about the human race. Google blacked out it's doodle and facebook did nothing

@stickymick There was something passed recently for the EU, dont remember the name, but Ireland pretty much said FU were not implementing it. Now the MPAA is suing them. These fvckers have some sense of entitlement.

The scariest part is megaupload was taken down without SOPA/PIPA. While there may have been infringing content as stickymick pointed out people around here used it for legitimate reasons and now all that content is unavailable. It's like renting a storage unit and a few of the storage units in the building have stolen goods in them and the government seizes the whole building.

The truth is the internet scares the government and more important the media moguls like Ruppert Murdock because one man can actually have a voice that can be heard by millions. Something like that can really upset the statuesque they fight so hard to maintain.

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I'm pretty sure more sharing and storage sites will follow megaupload's demise... Dropbox, xdrive and possibly wikipedia's own file hosting service may come under scrutiny.

IMO, the media and marketing are a threat to the stability of the web. I don't condone piracy in the slightest, but when you have people like Sony handing the tools to us on a plate, and then leading the charge to tar everyone with the same brush while spending so little time, effort and cash on actually making their own services secure against ID theft and waving the "It's at your own risk" flag as a get out, it certainly makes one wonder about the idea for the media industry to go solely digital in the first place.

I also remember not so long ago, not much more than 10 years ago, that the marketing and media moguls were demanding mobile phone manufacturers build devices with the Bluetooth permanently enabled so that when you walked past shops they could beam adverts and services straight to your handset. Nokia led the charge to beat that idea down, if I'm not mistaken.

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And another one bites the dust. Filesonic is down too now, it is only available for users to retrieve their uploaded docs. Can't say I used it myself though, there were better sites IMO.

Maybe we will see the rise of P2P hosting again?

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You've heard that from your completely paranoid friends. It doesn't happen like that here in the US, where they are based. Oh, there are those who will try to do that, but eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and we citizens won't let it happen.

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It's no good just being vigilant without action. The media industry have already won a major battle when they bought the DMCA, and they are winning more battles when they have "pursuaded" the US government to force other otherwise sovereign countries like Australia to adopt similar legislation or suffer the consequences.

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You have a lot more faith in our system than I do, we have won the first battle but the war is far from over. Dodd is basically out there threatening politicians to pass it or else. MPAA started running support ads on TV.

Most people have their head up their *** (huta). While the shutting down of wiki and a few other sites had an impact this round, I'm not too sure that this will be the case next time around. Huta people will see it as an annoyance rather than a call to action.

You can call me paranoid all you want but with the DOD classifying occupy protesters as low level terrorist threats and NDAA in place, 1984 definitely comes to mind. Then throw in video surveillance, back scatterer xray, and terahertz imaging being used here in NYC, seems like George just had the date wrong.

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While I'm glad SOPA and PIPA have been temporarily quelled, those in Europe currently need to be working to smash down APTA, which is some half-assed "Trade Agreement" which more or less comes down to agreeing-to-frak-over-any-and-all-trade-that-may-possibly-entail-patent-copyright-or-trademark-violations. Which included internet data transfer etc.

Anyway, geneven, while Facebook is apparently lacking in appropriate balls and ethics to have protested on principle, and while Google/Wikipedia/etc might be safe, it's not like our USA government doesn't currently bring down sites fairly regularly. Look up "Operation In Our Sites", for example, which is the USA's various agencies grabbing domain names under property forfeiture law. Now, most of those sites are blantant counterfeiting operations, like (pulling name out of my *** here) 100football-nfl-jerseys.com or whatever, but my point is with enough pressure in the right areas, we could see operations to take down sites (not Google/Wikipedia - they do a lot to make sure they're legally safe, but perhaps other file sharing sites).

On the physical side of things, Mike Fila's post is onto something as well, though that's a bit removed as a topic from MegaUpload shutdown.

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many other are also shutting down there services.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/...heir-services/

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Is Filesonic ever coming back again?