Such major file hosting services as Filesonic and Fileserve have begun shutting down or crippling their services out of fear that they may end up following Megaupload’s management in being extradited to the US to face charges of facilitating copyright infringement on a grand scale.
Both Filesonic and Fileserve have changed their service so users can only download the files they uploaded, making their sites effectively useless – at least for the uses to which the vast majority of users put them.
Minor sites such as FileJungle and UploadStation have also followed suit, and several have even shut down entirely rather than risk US extradition. One service, Uploaded.to, even went so far as to ban all US IPs from its site.
In addition, massive numbers of files and user accounts have apparently been deleted as part of efforts to clean up the services.
Scores of services are also cancelling their affiliate programs, in which they formerly offered money and rewards to top uploaders, presumably out of concern that such schemes are a major element of the Megaupload prosecutions.
The removal of key features has proven particularly galling to those users who were unwise enough to purchase premium accounts, as they have now been left with privilege of downloading only the files they take the trouble to upload at “unlimited speeds” with “no waiting.”
Other services are more confident, at least in public – RapidShare has been portraying itself as a legitimate file hosting service which respects copyright, rather than a mere source of direct downloads for pirates, calling itself “absolutely legal.”
As for Megaupload itself, its legal position appears very weak indeed – the indictment makes a slew of damaging allegations which look far from implausible, and the US government has apparently been carefully building a case against them for some time with the aid of an informant within their organisation.
The indictment includes internal company emails explicitly discussing how to give cash payments to users in order to encourage them to upload infringing material, and detailed accusations about how their file hashing system was used to exclude duplicated child pornography files but not duplicated pirated materials.
Although the “Safe Harbour” provisions of America’s “DMCA” law provide a fairly liberal set of protections for sites hosting content uploaded by users against being accused of abetting copyright infringement (allowing sites like YouTube to survive), most of them hinge on the site’s administrators taking action to remove files when requested and not encouraging or profiting from copyright infringement, which may prove to be Megaupload’s downfall.
However, rather than the collapse of commercial web-based file hosts causing users to give up their wicked downloading ways, it seems rather more likely they will merely shift back to the P2P and torrents they were using before the likes of Megaupload came along – presumably making things a little more inconvenient for downloaders is the objective of the exercise, as it seems unlikely to accomplish anything else.
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Okay so let me get this straight. The government believes that the movie industry and music industry are hurting for cash? so much so that the'll disregard public opinion? Fuckin' politicians...
you are just a fossil .
thats the reason.
Fucking corporate control.
Don't give them any ideas. If Disney can copyright a song written in the 18th century (Happy Birth Day), they can copyright sex.
Disney doesn't own the Happy Birthday song. Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith hill from Kentucky do.
revolution calling...
America, once the greatest country in the world.
Nowadays? I dubbed them the dumbest.
Dumbfuckistan indeed
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105781981300463067020/posts/TjPaEhKSe1x
Just when exactly is this "once"? Afik, "the greatest country in the world" is just what the US nationalists kept telling themselves when they were making movies about how they didn't totally get owned in Vietnam.
Yeah, it's easy to get owned in a fight when your whore politicians make you fight with one hand tied behind your back and a blindfold on.
If the US had put all of its military resources to full use during that war N.Vietnam would still be a crater you'd be trying to crawl out of.
Try reading a little before opening your pie hole and I don't mean "The Peoples Daily".
I'm tempted to learn chinese just so I could get all my stuff from their sites....And I'm sure they don't give a damn even if US starts whining to them about copyrights or anything. I'm sure they're like, "copyright? does that taste good?"
This anon support anonymous. And will not mind if even Facebook is close down for a week if it meant bringing attention to the world.
"Anonymous" doesn't help anyone. Besides, everyone already knows about SOPA and PIPA getting shut down, which all this has nothing to do with.
Orly? Both bills were about this very thing.
Well then what other ways to show how upset you are with your government? election votes even if that laws are approved? or doing a pacific protest? at least annonymous is giving the message...
They were, but SOPA and PIPA just made legal the bullshit the government already does, as proven by this. I personally have seen many sites shut down and seized for bullshit infringement they supposedly took part in.
SOPA and PIPA just gave the government a bit more wiggle room, but them getting shut down is not going to stop this.
Yeah but we need another blackout to inform the people/idiot teens, this time for 2 - 2 1/2 days because of ACTA and PCFIPA.
I didn't mean have Anon hack the sites I mean't get all the groups/sites to help again by spread info about ACTA & PCFIPA by doing another blackout.
That would be good but that's not Anonymous' style. They attack sites and shut them down, albeit temporarily. That is NOT how we or anyone should be handling this. Each attack from them only serves as another good excuse for sterner legislation. Especially if they go after government sites. When Megaupload got shut down I know there had to be many attacks by Anonymous and correct my if I'm wrong but doesn't that sound childish? Like they're favorite toy was taken away and now they throw a tantrum? They don't sound like people I'd want to support. In fact, I'd be more inclined to oppose them.
But how will an involuntary blackout help anything? Unlike what happened on the 18th, it's just gonna piss people off. The sites are just gonna be blocked with a message about them being hacked, not about ACTA or PCFIPA.
id be very happy if facebook died somehow, especially if its permanent, that'd be such a joyful moment in history for me, just imagine all those ppl qq'ing, bitching and ranting about how they cant live without facebook ...
ah so fucking good XD
The destruction of myspace got us where we are now. I doubt getting rid of facebook is going to help.
Nobody would care for a long time, they all would just move to Google+ even if it is worse then FB.
.... and this anon will not mind if facebook is closed down forever
actually this anon will pay to shut down facebook .
please ?
This anon thinks that Facebook isn't the problem. Even if it disappears overnight, another will stand to take it's place. This anon instead advocates compulsory reeducation for all willing FB users. Reeducation involving shock therapy.
anonymous is a bunch of script kiddies, who set their beds. and much like the wall street protesters, in a matters of months they'll be forgotten too.
you are anonymous, a retarded one.
I bet the mayans don't look so stupid now..
The Mayans were pretty clever to come up with such an accurate calendar. The same cannot be said for the people who think that the end of their calendar means anything significant.
Because we can't watch our anime? Srsly?
NO WAI!!!!!!!!! ooops its a sarcasm owl!
Sorry if repeat posts are unwelcome.
Either its to distract attention from ACTA- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and PCFIPA- Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act. Both are meant to spy on everyones every action on the internet, they have the same function but ACTA is international, PCFIPA is only in the US and it claims to fight child porn in order to try to prevent people from opposing it, but it doesn't do just that (or prevent cp at all). They just want our info to use against us. Or perhaps something worse.
Web Apocalypse came faster than the World it seems.
Well.. the freaks fear 2012 for some apocalypse~
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maybe it's not quite what they thought it is going to be~~ The Destruction of the web might happen with the complete collapse of All services when Hackers - Crackers - Trojan jockeys -ones within closed sites like the government, banks, SS by shear coincidence unleash they programs at the same time to Utterly CRASH EVERYTHING! It'll make the 2011 crashes look like nothing but experiments for the Big One...
The shit's about to hit the fan for sure, and we're looking at the beginning of the Internet's (or the "World Wide Web" if anyone still calls it that) equivalent of World War I.
Big governments, corporations, businesses, banks, pharmacies, and other "Bigs" hate the internet with a passion (or are completely ignorant of it altogether), and have a voracious bloodlust to see it annhilated completely.
One thing's for sure...Anonymous DEFINITELY isn't going to take this lying down.
TO ARMS!
Imagine this in a manga
i allways imagined that
the shit hits the fan
is a picture which i cannot post
but should be something like:
uniditifyable flying brown objects floating towards a watersprinkle.
was allways a watersprinkle.
no fan.
cuz there are 2 types of fans.
anime lovers and the wind somethings.
CONGRATULATIONS!! Now I'll just buy more COUNTERFEIT goods off Canal Street and never replace any of them with legitimate copies.
at least 1 happy anon ^^
All this will result in is a decentralization of piracy. It's just like when corporations banded together and destroyed Oink. There hasn't been a replacement since.
I hope Rapidshit gets shut down next. Maybe people will finally stop uploading stuff in *shivers*...parts.
USA = Land of Freedom
Internet = Freedom
USA haet Internet
wut?
wut means rage in german!
but most likely is used as "what?"
which turned to "whut..."
then wut....
cant be shorter anymore ;P
vut?
There can be only one.
Sadly, That's what it sounds like.
USA = "Land of Freedon"
Internet = Created by "Land of Freedom"
USA haet Internet
wut?
i recently used my rage on mortal strike.
thats why i have no "wut" (=aka rage).
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
yes . i allways edit my errors in my textpassages when i type. except when i am NERVOUS.
haet = hate
typing error based on gaming something barrier
counted as personal attack.
Give me a server and some harddrives and I'll host some stuff. I ain't afraid of no government.
6000 €
just buy it yourself and make revolution ^^