MegaUpload has been shut down

Mark A · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:53

Pretty brave to start taking down government websites considering how they took down Lulzsec who thought they were untouchable.

grudas · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:54

mmj_uk said:
It's littered with Copyright material.

As for the "there will be other sites like it" argument I'm not so sure, who is going to put the effort into these new sites if they get blocked by the piracy police faster than ever before? (note: I'm not sure how long the process takes with these new powers?)

there are NO NEW POWERS yet.. SOPA is not yet approved.

Gaygle · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:54

Malevolence said:
In the words of Kosh, 'And so it begins'. Anonymous have supposedly taken down the US Dept. of Justice's website in response.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/...n-doj-website-in-response-to-megaupload-case/

Care factor = 0

Serve's 'em right.

Mark A · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:55

mmj_uk said:
It's littered with Copyright material.

But doesn't the artist get paid? I'm pretty sure they get a cut of the ad revenue put onto videos with copyright material.

Spenty · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:55

Even though these kids (as most of them still seem to be teenagers) are behind a screen they are pretty ballsy attacking government websites.

GTRacer · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:55

Today's news makes this promo vid even weirder:

muon · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:56

Arent a lot of usenet servers in the states and netherlands?

grudas · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:57

GTRacer said:
Today's news makes this promo vid even weirder:

mmj_uk · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:58

grudas said:
there are NO NEW POWERS yet.. SOPA is not yet approved.

No but they've already started shutting sites down, I've seen sites (live streaming) as far back as last year taken down by the FBI.

SOPA if passed will bring it to a whole new level and now they're already going after sites like Megaupload.

grudas · 19 Jan 2012 at 21:59

mmj_uk said:
No but they've already started shutting sites down, I've seen sites (live streaming) as far back as last year taken down by the FBI.

SOPA if passed will bring it to a whole new level and now they're already going after sites like Megaupload.

they always did shut something down.. all those p2p apps were bombarded.. its not new

but yes with SOPA it will be normal.

Abraxaz1 · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:00

grudas said:
they always did shut something down.. all those p2p apps were bombarded.. its not new but yes with SOPA it will be normal.

and most likely so will dos attacks on us goverment websites and producer websites.

jimmy321 · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:01

Malevolence said:
In the words of Kosh, 'And so it begins'. Anonymous have supposedly taken down the US Dept. of Justice's website in response.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/...n-doj-website-in-response-to-megaupload-case/

This is Gold.

Edit & Universal Music

Abraxaz1 · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:03

I wonder if were going to have the samething as what happened with acs law?
Wouldn't mind reading department of justice emails, would be intressted to see the amount of communication between the big companies and the so-called impartial goverment is.

gizmoy2k · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:04

Almost enough to get people to willingly participate in botnets and the the like. A war is coming

Narj · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:09

This is the thing that's starting to bug me:

Kim Schmitz, and three others were arrested Thursday in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials. Two other defendants are at large.

I know there are diplomatic relations to think about, but why are so many countries/governments/foreign agencies bending over and taking it up the chocolate Starfish from the US? Just look at the Richard O'Dwyer case; that is really ***** up!

America... world police... :rolleyes:

Spenty · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:11

If only the UK still owned half the world ey

hola_adios · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:12

Spenty said:
If only the UK still owned half the world ey

If only the UK owed half the world to the other half.

Konstantin · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:14

gizmoy2k said:
Almost enough to get people to willingly participate in botnets and the the like. A war is coming

Agreed, 2012 will be an interesting year.

RIP MegaUpload.

philip2009 · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:14

From over at reddit -

28-OCT-2011 - MegaUpload labelled a 'rogue' site by MPAA.

09-DEC-2011 - MegaUpload releases a music video with RIAA artists endorsing MegaUpload.

10-DEC-2011 - UMG doesn't like the video. Has it removed from YouTube.

12-DEC-2011 - MegaUpload files suit against UMG on the grounds that UMG cannot remove the content as MegaUpload holds the copyright, not UMG.

16-DEC-2011 - UMG says "So what? We can take down whatever we want!" and "You can't touch us. This isn't DMCA. We didn't take it down because of copyright. We took it down because we can."

21-DEC-2011 - MegaUpload labelled a "rogue" site by the USTR.

28-DEC-2011 - MegaUpload wants an explaination from UMG.

19-JAN-2012 - MegaUpload shut down by Feds

Link to post

Marky · 19 Jan 2012 at 22:16

I can imagine this is only the beginning. Universalmusic.com, justice.gov and now RIAA.org have been taken down by AnonOps. If the government can just take down a site like Megaupload.com where do they stop?! Are they going to take down Youtube.com because some people upload copyrighted content?!