MegaUpload has been shut down

grudas said:
if the internet starts going after fbi and shiz like that i can see who will win :) just SO many people use internet these days they have no actual way of stopping it.. IW1(internet war 1?)
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They managed to stop Lulzsec, who also thought they could not be stopped.

They will go after the ringleaders, then once they are facing 20 years jail time it will put the rest off.
 
AmTechFox said:
Who needs sopa/pipa when you can still close a site and issue international warrants! :/
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My thoughts exactly! On what authority did they take down a website from outside the US I wonder - Unless that's allowed? I may be nieve on this - I'm not a law bod :p
 
Marky said:
My thoughts exactly! On what authority did they take down a website from outside the US I wonder - Unless that's allowed? I may be nieve on this - I'm not a law bod :p
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Isn't the domain name company thats based in the US, maybe thats how/why, not entirely sure myself.
 
The sense of entitlement this has dragged up is absolutely pathetic.

"If mediafire goes down I'm actually gonna kill someone", someone said on twitter. You *****! what? Get a job and EARN the right to watch all those movies and tv shows you steal. You don't expect free food do you, why is it such a shock that you might actually have to pay for other things too.

The pathetic actions and arguments being pushed by morons like Anonymous just proves what a horrible, horrible cultural decline the world is in. A website clearly providing access to illegal content is taken down and they think it's their right to 'retaliate'? What are they retaliating against? If their local police officers took their local drug dealer and gang off the street would they 'retaliate' then? Bull... they would. They aren't pushing an agenda, they're taking sites down because they can.

I oppose SOPA and I don't particularly agree with the way the US operate in targeting sites that provide illegal content, but everyone who uses those sites know full well what they're doing and they should know the consequences too. Feel lucky that they aren't dumping court orders through your letterboxes. You wouldn't walk in to HMV, nick a few DVDs, walk out, get caught by a security guard and then go torch his house (in saying that, I think last summer's riots proves some probably would).

The only thing this will hopefully change is the big music labels and movie studios thinking behind how they distribute material.

The opposition to SOPA should be against censorship, free speech and access to material, not as a tool to keep illegal sites online.
 
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Marky said:
My thoughts exactly! On what authority did they take down a website from outside the US I wonder - Unless that's allowed? I may be nieve on this - I'm not a law bod :p
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Off the top of my head and at a guess it's because it was a .com website: a US organisation administers all .com domains so the US probably went there and told them to off it.

As for why they need SOPA, I'll bet that they'll dig through the details here and use it to justify it all. "Look at how much money we're losing! Closing Megaupload took a two year investigation, with SOPA we'll be able to shut sites like this down much faster!".

EDIT: Derp, Fox beat me to it.
 
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US Government take down one site... Internet take down one US government site. Only fair IMO.

Maybe after a while they will realise something is wrong... Maybe government will actually listen to it's people and what they want...
 
A sad day indeed. The slow and eventual death of the free uncontrolled internet has just ramped up in speed. American movie companies etc wont be happy till they are charging you for everything you do online.
 
AmTechFox said:
Isn't the domain name company thats based in the US, maybe thats how/why, not entirely sure myself.
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Art said:
Off the top of my head and at a guess it's because it was a .com website: a US organisation administers all .com domains so the US probably went there and told them to off it.

As for why they need SOPA, I'll bet that they'll dig through the details here and use it to justify it all. "Look at how much money we're losing! Closing Megaupload took a two year investigation, with SOPA we'll be able to shut sites like this down much faster!".

EDIT: Derp, Fox beat me to it.
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Hmm perhaps you're right. Also it looks like they had quite a few search warrants in place!

Copyright.gov is down now, and apparently there are rumours about an attack on fbi.gov...

However, all of this got me thinking - It appears they are just doing DDOS attacks on these sites - What is that going to do? It'll bring down the site for a few hours and then be right back up again - Megaupload.com won't be up anytime soon...
 
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DAvE18 said:
A sad day indeed. The slow and eventual death of the free uncontrolled internet has just ramped up in speed. American movie companies etc wont be happy till they are charging you for everything you do online.
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There lies the problem, the content provided by megaupload (and yes, I know there was a small minority of legal, genuine content and users) wasn't supposed to be free was it? It's stuff you pay for, just like food, just like petrol, just like your heating. It's not sad at all, it's exactly what you'd expect if there were someone breaking in to the houses on your street.
 
Marky said:
Copyright.gov is down now, and apparently there are rumours about an attack on fbi.gov...
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There were rumours of an outright hack of fbi.gov, but I think that was people getting carried away. It still seems to be up.

As much as I agree with the general "**** off!" sentiment towards the US government at the moment, I'm not sure this will do anything at all. Anon will tire, the US will try to hound them out and the *IAA will still push this crappy agenda.

md85 said:
The sense of entitlement this has dragged up is absolutely pathetic.
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I totally agree that people need to wise up and stop copying stuff they don't have the rights to, but to be fair the media companies have to take part of the blame here. If you treat your customers like crap they'll turn their back on you and not give a damn what happens. It's not too different to what has happened with Ubisoft since they took their ridiculous DRM stance.
 
"According to the Department of Justice, the individuals named above face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit racketeering, five years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and five years in prison on each of the substantive charges of criminal copyright infringement. "
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So that's a grand total of 50 years in prison for each of them ?

You get far far less for more serious crimes like murder FFS !
 
md85 said:
There lies the problem, the content provided by megaupload (and yes, I know there was a small minority of legal, genuine content and users) wasn't supposed to be free was it? It's stuff you pay for, just like food, just like petrol, just like your heating. It's not sad at all, it's exactly what you'd expect if there were someone breaking in to the houses on your street.
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It's nothing like that :confused:

Food, petrol, heating can't be copied. They are consumables one way or another.

Downloading and copying files off the internet is totally different.
 
md85 said:
There lies the problem, the content provided by megaupload (and yes, I know there was a small minority of legal, genuine content and users) wasn't supposed to be free was it? It's stuff you pay for, just like food, just like petrol, just like your heating. It's not sad at all, it's exactly what you'd expect if there were someone breaking in to the houses on your street.
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If someone broke into my house, made a copy of my TV and then left without damaging/stealing/inconveniencing me in any way at all I wouldn't be bothered in the slightest.
 
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