Megaupload closed by fbi
Megaupload
has been shut down by US officials with immediate effect.
The site is one of the world's most popular file-sharing services, but has now been closed following allegations that its founder and several other executives were charged with violating a number of piracy laws.
The allegations state that Megaupload has cost copyright holders a loss of over $500 million (£320m) in revenue from pirated films and other media.
It appears that its spinoff sites including Megavideo and Megapix have also been shut down for the time being.
A statement posted on the FBI's website read: "This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime."
The Justice Department explained that Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) and three others were arrested in New Zealand.
Megaupload had released a statement shortly before the shutdown, stating that the allegations were "grotesquely overblown".
The statement read: "The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay. If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch."
The website allows users to upload and transfer files that are too large for email, and is similar to several other sites including Rapidshare and FileServe.
The Motion Picture Association of America recently alleged that the vast majority of files used on Megaupload are in violation of copyright laws.
The move comes one day after many websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).
has been shut down by US officials with immediate effect.
The site is one of the world's most popular file-sharing services, but has now been closed following allegations that its founder and several other executives were charged with violating a number of piracy laws.
The allegations state that Megaupload has cost copyright holders a loss of over $500 million (£320m) in revenue from pirated films and other media.
It appears that its spinoff sites including Megavideo and Megapix have also been shut down for the time being.
A statement posted on the FBI's website read: "This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime."
The Justice Department explained that Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) and three others were arrested in New Zealand.
Megaupload had released a statement shortly before the shutdown, stating that the allegations were "grotesquely overblown".
The statement read: "The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay. If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch."
The website allows users to upload and transfer files that are too large for email, and is similar to several other sites including Rapidshare and FileServe.
The Motion Picture Association of America recently alleged that the vast majority of files used on Megaupload are in violation of copyright laws.
The move comes one day after many websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).
Comments
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Whatevs.
Unscreened sites like that is a pain, 50% pirated stuff, 49% infected files, 1% legit uploads.
What an idiot, you're basing that off of nothing but preconceived notions in your head. Many people, including myself, use that website as backup storage for files and other completely legitimate actions. I guarantee that pirated/virus infected files make up no more than 20% of the files stored on MegaUpload. I don't understand how the US government can shutdown a website hosted in many different countries. -
What an idiot, you're basing that off of nothing but preconceived notions in your head. Many people, including myself, use that website as backup storage for files and other completely legitimate actions. I guarantee that pirated/virus infected files make up no more than 20% of the files stored on MegaUpload. I don't understand how the US government can shutdown a website hosted in many different countries.
My ambivalence, probably construed as negativity because I'm an angry little man, is because of the nature of hosting sites.
Your imaginary percentage is as valid as mine.
None of us are not near the real number of infected files, of course.
Its most likely way less.
Sorry you lost your backups. I put mine on flash drives, it works great.
How was megaupload structured?
Should give you a simple answer to how they could shut down all of it.
Never interested me so I couldn't say. -
By all means.permission for sig?
Feel free to spell my forum name right though, foo.OHH SNAP
Dot got Legit for a min there
damn thats not good though before we know it there gonna make sure we have to sign into the internet just to use a browser
More like the hosting companies, riddled with arrogance and idiocy, are going to have to get serious, stop profiteering from piracy and malicious software.
Its all good. -
Long live Usenet Newsgroups.Which incidentally predates the world wide web.
Max bandwidth,anonymity and too big to ever shutdown.Well worth the small monthly fee(if not included for as part of your internet deal from your ISP).
People will eventually realise that there are much safer alternatives to Cyberlockers and especially BitTorrent,kazaa,vuze etc. -
My ambivalence, probably construed as negativity because I'm an angry little man, is because of the nature of hosting sites.
Your imaginary percentage is as valid as mine.
None of us are not near the real number of infected files, of course.
Its most likely way less.
Sorry you lost your backups. I put mine on flash drives, it works great.
How was megaupload structured?
Should give you a simple answer to how they could shut down all of it.
Never interested me so I couldn't say.
I actually had to Google ambivalence... Anyway I apologize for throwing around insults. You are correct in saying my percentages aren't any more valid than yours. I had a few term papers stored on the site from my freshman/sophomore year in college along with other things that I no longer have on my hard drive so I was a bit upset when I learned about this. Also apparently the countries in which Megaupload was hosted have signed certain treaties with the US which allows the copy right laws there to be upheld in those countries also. -
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Hilarious.
Although its sad to see that they're too dumb to take down real sites - the sites of the artist and sites that SELL music, or do some digging and going after the internal servers that RIAA etc do work on, instead of downloading the first pinger that comes up on google and go after the servers hosting their sites which serve no purpose at all. -
This starts to remind children's play more and more everyday.
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