Megaupload Shut Down by Feds

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-file-sharing-website/

"Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.

The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.

Megaupload.com has claimed it is diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.

The indictment says at one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular website in the world."

I'm pretty confident SOPA won't pass, but it has unfortunately brought piracy and filesharing back to the top of the feds' agenda and we will suffer either way. I tended to prefer megaupload to torrents/RapidShare. 

My tumblr post about this.

Sadness and anger basically.... I WAS WATCHING MISFITS FROM THERE!!!!!!! BASTARDS!

Aaaarr ! I've been shot !

Bingowings said:

I wonder how long it will take for the legitimate users to counter sue for loss of earnings.

Lots of software for example was distributed via that route.

This is a very good point.

I think if these bills (which were probably hand written by the MPAA or RIAA) pass it will just force "pirate sites" to go to foreign countries for hosting. Demonoid has moved several times. Sure the government will censor those sites but there are plenty of ways around that (just ask the folks in China).

Bottom line this bill (if it becomes a law) will fail to make a dent in piracy. And how long before they begin to censor sites which offends some other special interest group or anti-American sites??

It's going to ruin a lot of things like youtube, facebook, deviantart, newsgroups, etc.

"It's all bullshit, folks, and it's bad for ya" -George Carlin

DuracellEnergizer said:

Goddamn feds! If I could afford all those comics legally, then I would buy them, you cheap bastards!!!

there are other places ;)

...I can't resist. That website was our last hope. "No. There is Another."

(Edit: The below website may or may not be real. Enter at your own risk.)

(Edit #2: The Link has been removed, due to the info provided by hairy_hen. I'm sorry, again, for posting it.)

Source: Many, many comments on this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc

none said:

Is that the Anonymous LOIC installer?

No, it isn't. Here's a pic of what it is:

It isn't "fully operational" yet, but it's still good news.

"an imitated bird call."

Aha, thats are referring to all of the fake (imitated) alternate megauploads (bird calls)!

But that is probably a fake though too.

In all honesty, I don't know of any way to guarantee that the page is legitimate. I was merely spreading the word which had gotten me excited deeply. Now that I'm learning about these "bird calls", I hereby apologize in the event that it's a fake, though nobody knows for sure. I'll edit my prior post, with the link, to alert all people of this possibility....

I find that discussion totally unmoderated.