Megaupload shutdown by US, Anonymous retaliates & fallout

January 20th, 2012

The site's founder and others have been charged with violating piracy laws.
Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.

More -- BBC News - Megaupload sharing site shut down

January 20th, 2012

Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline

January 20th, 2012

hun ki hou ga

January 20th, 2012

Anonymous..fools wat they r doing........ >>>> www.unp.me/f46/end-piracy-not-liberty-176126/

just readed this now,
WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of
Investigation shut down Thursday one of the world's
most popular file-sharing websites,
MegaUpload.com, and announced the arrest of four
of the people behind it in a global crackdown against
the suspected online pirates. The move came a day after Washington lawmakers
were besieged by complaints about legislation
designed to crack down on the online sharing of
pirated copies of music, movies and other material,
people familiar with the matter said.

online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204616504577171060611948408-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwOTExNDkyWj.html

They arrested the CEO, Who is a citizen of Hong kong and New Zealand, for extradition to the U.S.

He is NOT EVEN A US CITIZEN.

Arrested for crimes they didn't commit in the U.S., claiming jurisdiction because something was hosted on a server in Virginia.

Today, the authorities executed in excess of 20 search warrants in the United States and eight other countries.

Data centers in the Netherlands, Canada and Washington housing MegaUpload’s equipment were raided. In an apparent reference to the latter location, a source has just informed TorrentFreak that the FBI are currently detaining everyone at the ISP Cogent Communications’ headquarters in Washington DC, in connection with a Mega-related search warrant.

In addition to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom who was arrested today in New Zealand, another six alleged members of the Mega “conspiracy” were charged in the indictment:

- Finn Batato, 38, Mega’s chief marketing officer and a citizen and resident of Germany
- Julius Bencko, 35, Mega’s graphic designer from Slovakia
- Sven Echternach, 39,Mega’s German head of business development;
- Mathias Ortmann, 40, the German CTO, co-founder and director of Mega
- Andrus Nomm, 32, programmer and head of the development from Estonia
- Bram van der Kolk, 29, a Dutch citizen who oversaw programming and network issues.

Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by authorities there. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm are still at large.

January 20th, 2012

sh*t head US congress..... censoring web ..these CONGRASS is problem everywhere..even in india

P.S- even these sites also not opening
www.riaa.com
www.universalmusic.com

Help Stop Internet Censorship

STOP
SOPA AND PIPA

Please Click here And Participate in the Protest

January 20th, 2012

P.S -
hope nothing happen to filesonic..... :/

btw megaupload rises again---> *
I dont know if this is genuine but looks promising....as for now its working

January 21st, 2012

January 23rd, 2012

Megaupload – Closed
Fileserve – Deleting multiple files. Banning Premium accounts. Closed Affiliate Program.
Filesonic – Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files.
Now using Digital fingerprinting. Files are being deleted as soon as uploaded (as Hotfile did).
VideoBB – Closed Affiliate Program.
Filepost – Started suspending accounts with infringing material (as Hotfile did)
Uploaded.to – Blocked U.S. access.
Videozer – Closed Affiliate Program.
Filejungle – Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.
Uploadstation – Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.

January 23rd, 2012

Is mediafires gonna shut to?

January 23rd, 2012

^^ They don't pay anything to uploaders.
Plus they are strict about DMCA reports.

Should be fine IMO.

January 23rd, 2012

f*** sopa !! (this message is censored by sopa act)

January 23rd, 2012

seems to be end of internet life...i already bought the good old cassete player

January 23rd, 2012

Filesonic & Fileserve closes file sharing, So its true that the world, as we know it is coming to an end in 2012

January 23rd, 2012

oh nooooooooooo filesonic gone.... I have 35 $ pending payout.hai mere paise kha gayeee

and that hotfile deleted my backup movies files too (2 days back)..inki ta meh dash dash & dash &^&%^^
Was downloading a movie "Modern Times of Charlie chaplin "... sh*t 4 parts downloaded remaining 2 still remaining..ab puri life adi pic hi dekhni pehgi

Good that i have finished Johnny English Reborn HD on saturday,,, bach gaye

The end of free net world.... really 2012 started showing its color

January 23rd, 2012

Filesonic Kills File-Sharing Service After MegaUpload Arrests

Filesonic, one of the Internet’s leading cyberlocker services, has taken some drastic measures following the Megaupload shutdown and arrests last week. In addition to discontinuing its affiliates rewards program and not yet paying accrued money to members, the site has disabled all sharing functionality, leaving users only with access to their own files.

To users of systems like BitTorrent, file-sharing means just that – the sharing of files with others. But this weekend users of Filesonic, one of the Internet’s leading cyberlocker services, sharing files is currently a thing of the past.

According to a shock announcement by the site, all file-sharing functionality has now been disabled, leaving current users only with access to files that they have personally uploaded. Many hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of links all around the web have now been rendered useless, at least temporarily.

But the bad news for the site’s users doesn’t end there. In the last few hours, before file-sharing was disabled, Filesonic also ended its rewards program, meaning that uploaders to the site no longer earn money when people download their files. A moot point perhaps, since no-one will be downloading files anyway.

However, there is the matter of what will happen to the reward money that was sitting in uploader’s accounts before the rewards program was discontinued. Will it be paid out, or will it simply disappear? Many users fear the latter.
http://torrentfreak.com/filesonic-ki...rrests-120122/

Megaupload shutdown by US, Anonymous retaliates & fallout

The site's founder and others have been charged with violating piracy laws. Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright .....