RedSimba Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 It starts... Megaupload Shut Down By The FBI 08:00 pm January 19, 2012 by JACOB GANZ and LAURA SYDELL EnlargeCourtesy of Megaupload. Megaupload, one of the world's most popular file-sharing sites, was shut down Thursday as its founder and several executives were charged with violating piracy laws by the U.S. Department of Justice. As a technology used to transfer files too large to be sent by email, Megaupload has perfectly legitimate uses, but the Motion Picture Association of America claims that most of the content transferred over the site violates U.S. copyright laws. The Justice Department agreed, and today in Virginia a grand jury unsealed a 72-page indictment against defendants including Megaupload Limited and individuals including the company's founder, Kim Dotcom, as members of "the 'Mega Conspiracy,' a worldwide criminal organization whose members engaged in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale with estimated harm to copyright holders well in excess of $500 million and reported income of $175 million." Four individuals associated with the site have already been arrested in New Zealand. They include Megaupload's founder. The German-born Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz, has notoriously managed to maintain a rather high profile, despite prior accusations of copyright infringement. For a look at Dotcom's battle with Perfect 10, an adult-entertainment company, check out this profile on CNET. Megaupload is just one of a number of sites that allow users to upload large files that can then be downloaded from another computer. (A few of the questions prompted by the indictment: Why Megaupload? Given the amount of content transferred over the site, how did they possibly estimate the monetary harm to copyright holders, which include, notably, major record labels and movie studios? What will happen to the people who paid for subscriptions to Megaupload?) What the site's still-operational competitors, including Rapidfire and Sendspace, don't have is a founder as notorious as Schmitz or famous affiliates involved in another legal battle with record labels. In December, after a music video in support of Megaupload that featured Kanye West, Will.i.am. and Diddy surfaced, Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit against Megaupload for copyright infringement. Earlier this week, the New York Post reported that the producer Swizz Beatz (who is married to Alicia Keys) is the CEO of Megaupload. Swizz Beatz, whose real name is Kasseem Dean, is not named in today's indictment. In 2005, the Supreme Court decided against the file-sharing site Grokster in a suit filed by MGM Studios, Inc., determining that a someone who "distributes a device" (read: VCR, CD burner, file-sharing site) "with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright ... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties." Going by this precedent, Megaupload will likely have to show that it was created for a purpose other than file-sharing that infringes on copyrights. The indictment against Megaupload comes just one day after protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) reached a fever pitch on the Internet, and seems to have provoked a riot of responses. Thursday afternoon the hacker group Anonymous suggested, via its Twitter feed, that it had launched a coordinated attack on websites for the RIAA, MPAA, Copyright.gov, the Justice Department, Universal Records, Warner Music Group and BMI. At various points that afternoon and evening, each of those sites had trouble loading. http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/01/19/145474712/megaupload-shut-down-by-the-fbi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray. Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 i heard there's already a back up site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarrylf Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 AWWW They were my fave, what next? Mediafire? They better not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 just leave Pirate bay alone a lot of screeners in DVD clear quality have leaked including "Immortals" it came yesterday, and all the award films up for nom are leaked in screener too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaquero Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 damn..........now where am i suppose to get muh purn frum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnd Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 AWWW They were my fave, what next? Mediafire? They better not. I hope not. I love Mediafire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 How late they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EphraimAdamz Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Ugh now I gotta re-upload shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KlaSh-E Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EphraimAdamz Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 ^ don't feel sad Putlocker, Zshare, Mediafire, Filesonic, RapidShare, FileServe, 4shared, Filestube, Meta-search, The Pirate Bay, Hotfile, Torrentz.eu, Depositfiles, ZippyShare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidfresh832 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Filesonic shut down too guess they got scared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 ^ don't feel sad Putlocker, Zshare, Mediafire, Filesonic, RapidShare, FileServe, 4shared, Filestube, Meta-search, The Pirate Bay, Hotfile, Torrentz.eu, Depositfiles, ZippyShare :clapping: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utopia Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 And filesonic is not allowing file sharing anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 damn..........now where am i suppose to get muh purn frum I have been pissed off at porn on Xtube, they take all the hot shit down, it's like a pay site now, but I enjoy a good amateur fuck....oh there is one site that let's you download whole movies if you're into that..... gaytorrents I won't post a link but you can find it it has everything you could want to download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidfresh832 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I have been pissed off at porn on Xtube, they take all the hot shit down, it's like a pay site now, but I enjoy a good amateur fuck....oh there is one site that let's you download whole movies if you're into that..... gaytorrents I won't post a link but you can find it it has everything you could want to download mm hmm you know whats up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 mm hmm you know whats up! hell yea I gets my nut ON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidfresh832 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 In a further setback for MegaUpload, Hong Kong Customs officials have frozen $42 million in assets held by the beleaguered file-swapping site during raids on offices, homes, and hotel suites. The raids, which involved 100 officers, yielded a large amount of digital evidence and $42 million in suspected criminal proceeds, the Customs agency said in a statement. High-speed servers believed to be connected to the cases were found in expensive hotel rooms. "The assets have been frozen in accordance with related ordinances. The operation is ongoing," the agency said in a statement. The U.S. Justice Department and FBI shut down the popular Internet locker service on Thursday and announced indictments against seven people on charges related to online piracy, including racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, and conspiring to commit money laundering. Four of the seven suspects were taken into custody, including Kim DotCom, aka Kim Schmitz, who was arrested in New Zealand. DotCom is being held without bail until at least tomorrow when a hearing is scheduled to address extraditing DotCom to the United States to face charges. Federal officials accuse DotCom and his fellow defendants of pocketing millions of dollars in illegal profits and costing the film industry more than $600 million in damages. The defendants face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The shutdown and arrests led the hacker group Anonymous to launch denial-of-service attacks on a number of music and film industry sites as well as the Web site of the Justice Department. DotCom, a former illegal street racer, hacker, and convicted felon, reportedly lived in a $30 million mansion in New Zealand. Police reportedly seized 18 vehicles, including a vintage pink Cadillac, a Lamborghini, a 2010 Maserati, and 2008 Rolls Royce Phantom with a personalized license plate that reads "God." ____ Damn that fatty was living large off MegaUpload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idrag4mj Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 ^ don't feel sad Putlocker, Zshare, Mediafire, Filesonic, RapidShare, FileServe, 4shared, Filestube, Meta-search, The Pirate Bay, Hotfile, Torrentz.eu, Depositfiles, ZippyShare they just shut all those down..now only putlocker is working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray. Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 they really are dropping like flies. this is the end of the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 If they don't get us one way, they'll get us another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illi Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 When it rains, it pours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EphraimAdamz Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 they just shut all those down..now only putlocker is working Really cause I just downloaded things off of several of those sites about 5 mins ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 If they don't get us one way, they'll get us another. And we shall find another way to get one over on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyna ♔ Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 And we shall find another way to get one over on them That is a revolution I look forward to being a part of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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