megaupload taken down?

**Jammer8** · January 22, 2012, 04:10:56 PM

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they're taking everyting down. piratebay, which i never use and btjunkie are both down as well.

**tiddles** · January 22, 2012, 07:36:27 PM

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filesonic looks to be either fucked or covering their asses

**88Mariner** · January 22, 2012, 08:02:58 PM

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Originally posted by Jammer8

they're taking everyting down. piratebay, which i never use and btjunkie are both down as well.

as soon as they take them down, new ones will pop up, guarded against the errors the megaupload (and other) owners/hosts committed to get in trouble. the authorities focused on megaupload because it was the most prominent target.

Originally posted by tiddles

filesonic looks to be either fucked or covering their asses

saw that. probably both.

**tiddles** · January 22, 2012, 10:12:43 PM

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it was fun while it lasted

MegaUpload Closed.
FileSonic (Owns WUpload and UploadStaion) ALL Sharing disabled. Closed affiliate program. Deleting files and accounts.
FileServe Deleting multiple files. Closed affiliate program.
FileJungle (Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.
UploadStation (Owned by FileSonic) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.
VideoBB Closed affiliate program.
~disallowed~ Banned USA IP addresses.
FilePost Started suspending accounts with infringing material (doing what Hotfile did)
VideoZer Closed affiliate program.
4shared Deleting multiple files.
RapidShare,MediaFire,BitShare on deck.

**feather** · January 22, 2012, 10:34:41 PM

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Holy fuck! Are we going back to the dark days of private ftp?

**res0nat0r** · January 22, 2012, 11:04:28 PM

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Pretty crazy this happened, but it looks like it was in the works for a long time, and honestly megaupload was primarily used for piracy, so this really isn't suprising. Plus their blatant disregard for takedown requests and also facilitating piracy based on the internal emails used in the complaint shows what happens when you do things like this.

Also SoundCloud for sure will be fine. Its primary use isn't to make money and host off the backs of known copyrighted works, so they are all good. The other file sharing sites like uploaded.to which are blocking US IP's right now are probably doing that because they know they are doing the same thing as megaupload and are used mainly for piracy. I think RapidShare went thru a lawsuit a while back and came out ok, I'm guessing because they are used for piracy a lot, but they actually don't knowingly profit off of it and respond to takedown requests as intended. I'm not sure if they have any us based servers or not.

We should be using S3 from Amazon to store all of our shit which will never go away or be deleted and is super fast, but the problem is it will cost some cash http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

**tiddles** · January 23, 2012, 01:24:09 AM

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Yeah, I use S3 for a bunch of stuff. It's cheap, but doing sets on it will be pricey. You can set and control access keys, so we could theoretically set up a small group for it and have people pitching in for the fees, but it would be a huge hassle to setup.

We should just post mix tapes around the world instead.

**res0nat0r** · January 23, 2012, 01:28:36 AM

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Yeah, uploading stuff to it is also a pain in the ass. It really isn't made for easy filesharing. Too bad because it is great for speed and uptime. I think just other filesharing sites are going to be the easiest to use for now unfortunately.

**feather** · January 23, 2012, 04:52:19 AM

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Originally posted by res0nat0r

We should be using S3 from Amazon to store all of our shit which will never go away or be deleted and is super fast, but the problem is it will cost some cash http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

We should be buying an island and building a data haven a la Cryptonomicon!

**nick007** · January 23, 2012, 05:15:35 AM

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**thebanned1** · January 23, 2012, 10:51:06 AM

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Originally posted by tiddles

it was fun while it lasted

MegaUpload Closed.
FileSonic (Owns WUpload and UploadStaion) ALL Sharing disabled. Closed affiliate program. Deleting files and accounts.
FileServe Deleting multiple files. Closed affiliate program.
FileJungle (Owned by FileServe) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.
UploadStation (Owned by FileSonic) Deleting multiple files. Testing out blocking some USA IP addresses.
VideoBB Closed affiliate program.
~disallowed~ Banned USA IP addresses.
FilePost Started suspending accounts with infringing material (doing what Hotfile did)
VideoZer Closed affiliate program.
4shared Deleting multiple files.
RapidShare,MediaFire,BitShare on deck.

i actually applaud this...some of the sites mentioned above have been @ it for fucking ages, i only wish they were busted instead of megaupload...how can u justify giving out money for people who bring traffic to these sites, bye bye domi and all the rest of them imo

i,m actually happy about this tbh

**Kamal** · January 23, 2012, 11:21:29 AM

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welcome back brutha

Originally posted by 88Mariner

**picklemonkey** · January 23, 2012, 11:30:06 AM

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**thebanned1** · January 23, 2012, 01:15:43 PM

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We Read the Megaupload Indictment Papers So You Don’t Have To

http://www.vice.com/read/we-read-the-megaupload-indictment-papers-so-you-don-t-have-to-1

With Megaupload down we had nothing better to do than read the US government's 72-page document regarding the site's indictment. Here are the juicy details.

**chunky** · January 23, 2012, 02:40:27 PM

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Originally posted by thebanned1

how can u justify giving out money for people who bring traffic to these sites, bye bye domi and all the rest of them imo

Uh you could get money from Megaupload and Rapidshare as well

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