Goodnight, sweet prince

1/19/2012 5:18:56 PM

that song put them over the top and the hammer had to fall

1/19/2012 5:19:34 PM

F-R-E-E that spells mega upload.com baybe

1/19/2012 5:20:09 PM

Goodnight, sweet prince

1/19/2012 5:21:12 PM

FUCKING FUCK

1/19/2012 6:24:14 PM

It's remarkable it lasted as long as it did.

1/19/2012 6:25:23 PM

They complied with takedowns too, the problem is all pirated files on there were passworded RARs so they couldn't really scan for illegal content.

1/19/2012 6:26:22 PM

Fffffffffuck. How am I going to transfer files of large size that I am the legitimate copy right owner on.

1/19/2012 6:28:25 PM

i just registered supermegaupload.com

1/19/2012 6:30:02 PM

Wait, so people can actually tell the difference between the hundreds of illegal file sharing sites that are all exactly the same?

Well, I guess that's not really true. Some of them make you wait 45 seconds before downloading a file, and others make you type in a little code and then wait 15 seconds. I can see where it would be easy to pick a favorite.

1/19/2012 6:36:51 PM

MegaUpload was the best, because it rarely deleted files for inactivity and was fast, with very short waiting periods (near the end, I could download some files instantly, even as a free user).

[Edited on January 19, 2012 at 6:40 PM. Reason : It also had the biggest filesize limits.

1/19/2012 6:39:41 PM

^

1/19/2012 6:41:26 PM

Yeah, I'd download files in the 550MB range in under twenty minutes on the reg... as a free user.

1/19/2012 6:42:08 PM

Filesonic for the win

1/19/2012 8:39:51 PM

God, have you ever had an original thought

1/19/2012 8:55:14 PM

MediaFire~♥

1/19/2012 9:07:30 PM

Anon attacking the FBI. Silly internet geeks.

1/19/2012 9:07:33 PM

Quote :

"The low box-office revenues in 2011 is solely blamed on piracy by many of the dumb studio executives and not on their own sub-standard product. The bad news will pile up soon enough as foreign governments alligned with US will work together to shut down any sites with file-sharing services. The good news.....porn biz is being offered an unlikely lifeline. Even in these tough times and a dying biz, so many gorgeous babes are entering the industry (albeit short shelf life). Imagine when the revenues eventually goes up thanks to the piracy crackdown and economy still in doldrums. We won't be saying 'Hey, that girl used to be in my high-school' anymore. Instead 'Holy shit, that's my sister' will going to be the norm "

1/19/2012 10:26:01 PM

Quote :

"So apparently FBI.gov is down, along with justice.gov, and universalmusic.com along with some others... mpaa.org and riaa.org were down, they are back up now. Anonymous is pissed about megaupload.com being shut down by the government... Megaupload just made a new domain. megavideo.BZ"

Quote from facebook

1/19/2012 10:41:24 PM

I like it when 4chan pretends to make a difference

1/19/2012 10:44:16 PM

they're making a difference

but you won't see it or even know

1/19/2012 10:48:11 PM

http://consumerist.com/2012/01/megaupload-seems-to-be-up-and-almost-ready-to-run-again-without-a-domain-name.html

1/20/2012 12:39:44 PM

Damn and I just got the sauce

I'm Krallum and I approved this message

1/20/2012 12:41:45 PM

Quote :

"NZ police raid file-sharing site founder's mansion [e-mail] Get News Alerts to your Email & Cell Phone Headlines 0 1 e-mail print friendly Internet Piracy Indictment.JPEG left arrow1 / 2right arrow By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press; NICK PERRY, Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of Megaupload.com, a giant Internet file-sharing site shut down by U.S. authorities, on Friday and seized guns, millions of dollars, and nearly $5 million in luxury cars, officials said. Police arrested founder Kim Dotcom and three Megaupload employees on U.S. accusations that they facilitated millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. Extradition proceedings against them could last a year or more. With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was among the world's biggest file-sharing sites. According to a U.S. indictment, the site, which was shut down Thursday, earned Dotcom $42 million in 2010 alone. Although the company is based in Hong Kong and Dotcom lives in New Zealand, some of the alleged pirated content was hosted on leased servers in Virginia, and that was enough for U.S. prosecutors to act. New Zealand police served 10 search warrants at several businesses and homes around the city of Auckland. Police spokesman Grant Ogilvie said the seized cars include a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe worth more than $400,000 as well as several Mercedes. Two short-barreled shotguns and a number of valuable artworks were also confiscated, he added. He said police seized more than $8 million, money that was invested in various New Zealand financial institutions and which has now been placed in a trust pending the outcome of the cases. New Zealand's Fairfax Media reported that the four defendants stood together in an Auckland courtroom in the first step of the extradition proceedings. Dotcom's lawyer raised objections to a media request to take photographs and video, but then Dotcom spoke out from the dock, saying he didn't mind photos or video "because we have nothing to hide." The judge granted the media access, and ruled that the four would remain in custody until a second hearing Monday. Dotcom, Megaupload's former CEO and current chief innovation officer, is a resident of Hong Kong and New Zealand and a dual citizen of Finland and Germany who had his name legally changed. The 37-year-old was previously known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor. Two other German citizens and one Dutch citizen also were arrested and three other defendants — another German, a Slovakian and an Estonian — remain at large. Megaupload has retained Washington power attorney Bob Bennett to defend it, according to a person inside the company. Bennett is best known for representing former President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The person within Megaupload spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the company's plans. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and digital rights online, said in a statement that the arrests set "a terrifying precedent. If the United States can seize a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright claim, what is next?" The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to make it easier for authorities to go after sites with pirated material, especially those with overseas headquarters and servers. Before Megaupload was taken down, the company posted a statement saying allegations that it facilitated massive breaches of copyright laws were "grotesquely overblown." "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 statement said. Several sister sites were also shut down, including one dedicated to sharing pornography files. News of the shutdown seemed to bring retaliation from hackers who claimed credit for attacking the Justice Department's website. Federal officials confirmed it was down for hours Thursday evening and that the disruption was being "treated as a malicious act." A loose affiliation of hackers known as "Anonymous" claimed credit for the attack. Also hacked was the site for the Motion Picture Association of America, which has campaigned for a crackdown on piracy. According to the indictment, Megaupload was estimated at one point to be the 13th most frequently visited website on the Internet. Current estimates by companies that monitor Web traffic place it in the top 100. Megaupload is considered a "cyberlocker," in which users can upload and transfer files that are too large to send by email. Such sites can have perfectly legitimate uses. But the Motion Picture Association of America estimated that the vast majority of content being shared on Megaupload was in violation of copyright laws. The website allowed users to download some content for free, but made money by charging subscriptions to people who wanted access to faster download speeds or extra content. The website also sold advertising. Megaupload was unique not only because of its massive size and the volume of downloaded content, but also because it had high-profile support from celebrities, musicians and other content producers who are most often the victims of copyright infringement and piracy. Before the website was taken down, it contained endorsements from Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys and Kanye West, among others. The company listed Swizz Beatz, a musician who married Keys in 2010, as its CEO. He was not named in the indictment and declined to comment through a representative. The five-count indictment, which alleges copyright infringement as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering and racketeering, described a site designed specifically to reward users who uploaded pirated content for sharing, and turned a blind eye to requests from copyright holders to remove copyright-protected files. For instance, users received cash bonuses if they uploaded content popular enough to generate massive numbers of downloads, according to the indictment. Such content was almost always copyright protected, the indictment said. The Justice Department said it was illegal for anyone to download pirated content, but their investigation focused on the leaders of the company, not end users who may have downloaded a few movies for personal viewing. A lawyer who represented the company in a lawsuit last year declined to comment Thursday. Efforts to reach an attorney representing Dotcom were unsuccessful. Although Megaupload is based in Hong Kong, the size of its operation in the southern Chinese city was unclear. The administrative contact listed in its domain registration, Bonnie Lam, did not respond immediately for a request for comment sent to a fax number and email address listed. The indictment was returned in the Eastern District of Virginia, which claimed jurisdiction in part because some of the alleged pirated materials were hosted on leased servers in Ashburn, Virginia. Prosecutors there have pursued multiple piracy investigations. The Justice Department also was investigating the "significant increase in activity" that disrupted its website. It said in a statement that it was working to "investigate the origins of this activity, which is being treated as a malicious act until we can fully identify the root cause." The site appeared to be working again late Thursday. A spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America said in an emailed statement that the group's site also had been hacked, but it too appeared to be working later in the evening. "The motion picture and television industry has always been a strong supporter of free speech," the spokesman said. "We strongly condemn any attempts to silence any groups or individuals.""

1/20/2012 1:25:51 PM

I used to use this for work when sending documentation files too large for the email servers. Sad day.

1/20/2012 1:53:38 PM

where are the people that used to say

"You don't like America, go somewhere else"


I'd like to rub their face in the article and smack the shit out of them.

1/20/2012 2:00:32 PM

I was dispirited to learn that Swizz Beatz is not actually the CEO of megaupload.

1/20/2012 2:29:27 PM

Dude's last name is Dotcom

1/20/2012 2:47:39 PM

Can anyone confirm/deny this facebook comment?

Quote :

"Honestly, it's probably got more to do with the fact that Megaupload was working on a deal to give artists a chance to sell directly to consumers rather than going through any music labels. It would have meant about 90% of all music profits in the artists pockets rather than the pathetic percentages they get now. With music labels standing to lose billions of dollars they earn for basically doing shit other than signing some artists, it's little wonder that megaupload got slam fucked before they could complete the project."

1/20/2012 2:54:55 PM

Wouldn't surprise me if true.

1/20/2012 2:58:26 PM

1/20/2012 3:04:38 PM

is megaupload the one that made you type 3 letters and then wait like 10 seconds? if so, i liked them because the 3 letters were not some stupid crap that you can't even make out. they were very legible.

1/20/2012 3:19:15 PM

For a long time, it was, and then in the middle of last year they switched the wait times to nearly nothing, after about half a year of no CAPTCHA.

1/20/2012 8:05:38 PM

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103759/not-a-big-deal

1/20/2012 8:19:47 PM

Mr. Dotcom is the husky man on the right

1/20/2012 11:04:03 PM

Quote :

"They complied with takedowns too, the problem is all pirated files on there were passworded RARs so they couldn't really scan for illegal content."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204616504577171180266957116.html

TLDR, they took down links to the files but left the actual files on the server which had other links still pointing to it. They had tools to search through files for pirated stuff that they would personally download and they had tools to automatically delete CP and terrorist material but didn't use the tools to remove the take-down request files

1/20/2012 11:34:33 PM

your TLDR (not in the mood to peruse a 72-page indictment) makes it sound like Ron Paul ran that websitepr

[Edited on January 20, 2012 at 11:46 PM. Reason : obably will read some tomorrow though, looks interesting]

1/20/2012 11:39:51 PM

hahaha

1/20/2012 11:46:12 PM

fuck this stupid world

1/21/2012 11:57:12 PM

True TLDR: MegaUpload is fucked, and RapidShare is coming under the hammer next. Back to torrents or UseNet for most people. There will never be a file locker service as good as MegaUpload was

[Edited on January 22, 2012 at 3:48 AM. Reason : .]

1/22/2012 3:44:39 AM

Back to? You say that like those other options are somehow inferior and people had graduated to using stupid sites like these because they were improvements. These sites were designed because people were too stupid to figure out usenet or torrents.

1/22/2012 3:47:30 AM

Clearly you have never been in a private community that uses Megaupload. Megaupload was boss. No file expiration, good speeds, unlimited storage. Torrents suck for grabbing unpopular large ass files.

1/22/2012 3:51:42 AM

Quote :

"MEGAUPLOAD WAS BOSS"

Quote :

"LARGE ASS FILES"

[Edited on January 22, 2012 at 3:53 AM. Reason : -]

1/22/2012 3:53:22 AM

Quote :

"Clearly you have never been in a private community that uses Megaupload. Megaupload was boss. No file expiration, good speeds, unlimited storage. Torrents suck for grabbing unpopular large ass files."

Torrents just suck in general.

And no, I've never been part of a private community. I have no interest in child porn or shitty indie music, and everything else I can think of that I would ever want to download is uploaded to easy to find newsgroups.

[Edited on January 22, 2012 at 3:59 AM. Reason : For the record it goes Newsgroups>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Torrents>stupid sites like this.]

1/22/2012 3:57:49 AM

I guarantee you without Megaupload, it would have taken a loooot longer to obtain 31 seasons of a painting program on PBS.

1/22/2012 3:58:42 AM

Megaupload >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> torrents if you are actually in a good community, not icefilms or warez-bb.

1/22/2012 4:00:27 AM

How's that whole "no file expiration" thing working out for you these days?

1/22/2012 4:03:54 AM

I grabbed several terabytes worth of content and everything I wanted besides current releases before MU went down, and the community is mulling its options right now. The archives will take a while to rebuild from scratch (community started using MU in 2005/2006), but they've weathered much worse disasters than this.

1/22/2012 4:07:04 AM

whats all this community mumbo jumbo?

1/22/2012 4:10:02 AM

Sounds like trying times for child pornographers everywhere.

1/22/2012 4:10:14 AM