http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/fbi-shuts-down-megauploadcom-charges-seven-with-online-piracy/story-fn7celvh-1226249114650 (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/fbi-shuts-down-megauploadcom-charges-seven-with-online-piracy/story-fn7celvh-1226249114650)
Discuss. I find it ironic and believeable that the CEO wasn't arrested. Man, money can do amazing things.
I don't really (ever) use mega upload, so honestly its no big deal
Quote from: lionsef on January 20, 2012 01:43 AM
I don't really (ever) use mega upload, so honestly its no big deal
i can't believe you would think that way..
it is a big deal whether or not you use it.. this is basically the government flexing its muscles and letting the world know they still have the power to take down major websites with or without SOPA. while megaupload can be held responsible for the content on its site because it physically hosts the data, they also did abide by takedown notices and tried to play by the rules. the shutdown of megupload means ANY file sharing site that you use or rely on could be down without notice. mediafire, rapidshare, 4shared, filestube, the list goes on.
http://stereogum.com/929061/anonymous-hacks-riaa-universal-music-justice-department-websites/news/ (http://stereogum.com/929061/anonymous-hacks-riaa-universal-music-justice-department-websites/news/)
Quote from: rtil on January 20, 2012 01:51 AMhey also did abide by takedown notices and tried to play by the rules
That's odd, the article was rambling on about conspiracy charges and 50+ years in jail.
I'm not one to say 'fuck the police', but fuck bureaucracy.
Quote from: Sinitron on January 20, 2012 02:35 AM
Quote from: rtil on January 20, 2012 01:51 AMhey also did abide by takedown notices and tried to play by the rules
That's odd, the article was rambling on about conspiracy charges and 50+ years in jail.
I'm not one to say 'fuck the police', but fuck bureaucracy.
there are other things at play here beyond how the site operated. i'm just saying that the site itself and how it was run has no grounds in being shut down for illegal operations.
Quote from: creamcorn on January 20, 2012 02:03 AM
http://stereogum.com/929061/anonymous-hacks-riaa-universal-music-justice-department-websites/news/ (http://stereogum.com/929061/anonymous-hacks-riaa-universal-music-justice-department-websites/news/)
Of course Anonymous would respond to that. They've taken down quite a few sites already.
Im having a pretty good time watching all the take down reports go through. Reminds me how those action sci fi novels from the 80's were terrible wrong about hacker attacks. It used to be lazars and deadly hacker attacks delivered via floppy disks, now its pissed off teenagers making a political stance.
see i thought that warner's abuse of megaupload's tools was a big deal, only to have them do that whole youtube thing and have warner take that down too even though they had no rights to it at all
but now that the site has been completely shut down i'm just that much more worried about the future of the internet and censorship in general
i don't even understand why people suck so much
Quote from: stusader on January 20, 2012 06:33 AM
i don't even understand why people suck so much
Tom And Jerry: The Movie- We Got To Have, Money! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoYWdHe4tQ4#)
I'm personally quite enraged by this not only because it's absolutely absurd, but also because megaupload was the website I used to distribute early beta versions of my albums
fuck you, united states govt.
Quote from: rtil on January 20, 2012 01:51 AM
Quote from: lionsef on January 20, 2012 01:43 AM
I don't really (ever) use mega upload, so honestly its no big deal
i can't believe you would think that way..
it is a big deal whether or not you use it.. this is basically the government flexing its muscles and letting the world know they still have the power to take down major websites with or without SOPA. while megaupload can be held responsible for the content on its site because it physically hosts the data, they also did abide by takedown notices and tried to play by the rules. the shutdown of megupload means ANY file sharing site that you use or rely on could be down without notice. mediafire, rapidshare, 4shared, filestube, the list goes on.
Oh yeah, that reminds me.
I probably should've posted this months ago when it happened, but the FBI also took down this site:
http://tv-links.co.uk/ (http://tv-links.co.uk/)
it had a big "F.B.I" stamp on it for a while until the domain expired.
Same with http://kino.to/ (http://kino.to/)
The text there basically says that the people who run kino.to have been arrested (kinox.to is up now and looks exactly the same though).
Either way, the reason why I am posting that is because those websites did NOT host files. They linked to files and from a purely bureaucratic point of view, that's not something one can get arrested for. Uploading and providing illegal things on your website is an active step against the law, having a website that distributes links but aside from that doesn't do anything is a passive step to sharing and passive sharing is not something one can usually get arrested for. Nevertheless, the creators of both websites I posted got arrested.
Fuckers! Not Megaupload!
What right does the FBI possess to shut down an entire website? To a big part it served as a legal tool of distribution for artists and other people... If I would count the legal shit that I downloaded via Megaupload in the past months, I would have quite a list. So how come an American organization terminates the access to data uploaded by people from all around the world? On a side note, of course Megaupload also used to be the website where I liked to get my other stuff (movies, music etc.) as it had always been reliable, fast and frequently used by most uploaders... This is quite a pain.
Well, it will probably end in most of said websites going abroad and starting over, although, kino.to was probably not an american wesite... Does the FBI actually have the right to operate internationally?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, megaporn
where will I stream all dose pornz now :'C
Copy pasted from a friend's note on facebook
SOPA Emergency IP list:
So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to
ruin the internet, here's how to access your favorite sites
in the event of a DNS takedown.
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201
# News
bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131
aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252
# Social media
reddit.com 72.247.244.88
imgur.com 173.231.140.219
google.com 74.125.157.99
youtube.com 74.125.65.91
yahoo.com 98.137.149.56
hotmail.com 65.55.72.135
bing.com 65.55.175.254
digg.com 64.191.203.30
theonion.com 97.107.137.164
hush.com 65.39.178.43
gamespot.com 216.239.113.172
ign.com 69.10.25.46
cracked.com 98.124.248.77
sidereel.com 144.198.29.112
github.com 207.97.227.239
# Torrent sites
thepiratebay.org 194.71.107.15
mininova.com 80.94.76.5
btjunkie.com 93.158.65.211
demonoid.com 62.149.24.66
demonoid.me 62.149.24.67
# Social networking
facebook.com 69.171.224.11
twitter.com 199.59.149.230
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
livejournal.com 209.200.154.225
dreamwidth.org 69.174.244.50
# Live Streaming Content
stickam.com 67.201.54.151
blogtv.com 84.22.170.149
justin.tv 199.9.249.21
chatroulette.com 184.173.141.231
omegle.com 97.107.132.144
own3d.tv 208.94.146.80
megavideo.com 174.140.154.32
# Television
gorillavid.com 178.17.165.74
videoweed.com 91.220.176.248
novamov.com 91.220.176.248
tvlinks.com 208.223.219.206
1channel.com 208.87.33.151
# Shopping
amazon.com 72.21.211.176
newegg.com 216.52.208.187
frys.com 209.31.22.39
# File Sharing
mediafire.com 205.196.120.13
megaupload.com 174.140.154.20
fileshare.com 208.87.33.151
multiupload.com 95.211.149.7
uploading.com 195.191.207.40
warez-bb.org 31.7.57.13
hotfile.com 199.7.177.218
gamespy.com 69.10.25.46
what.cd 67.21.232.223
warez.ag 178.162.238.136
putlocker.com 89.238.130.247
uploaded.to 95.211.143.200
dropbox.com 199.47.217.179
pastebin.com 69.65.13.216
Here's a tip for the do-it-yourself crowd:
Go to your computer's Start menu, and either go to
"run" or just search for "cmd."
Open it up, and type in "ping [website address],"
Once you have the IP for a website, all you really
need to do is enter it like you would
a normal URL nd hit enter/press go. Typing in
"208.85.240.231"
should bring you to the front page of AO3,
for example, just as typing "174.121.194.34/dashboard"
should bring you straight to your Tumblr dashboard.
Since we're obviously bracing for the worst case scenario
which would involve you not being
able to access the internet regularly, you should, save this list.
Also the owner was loaded, he had $5 million in luxury cars stashed in new zealand
They've now confiscated them
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F01%2Fmega3.jpg%3Fw%3D640&hash=82c2bbc49ed7e856625132bcfad9064239123303)
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xipstory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2FRSSPoster_PRO%2Fcache%2Fd192f_mega4.jpg&hash=3e12445e4ccfb31fbfbc01cae99212bc2c129597)
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gtspirit.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fmegaupload-founder-kim-schmitz-cars-being-seized%2Fimage00005.jpg&hash=4ae5738eb71997190001a7117bad6029ca2b6220)
ALL DOSE CARS ;_;
Yeah I think he had a mansion or something there too. I knew megaupload was a big site, but I didn't know it was that big.
Quote from: Kott on January 20, 2012 05:44 PM
Fuckers! Not Megaupload!
What right does the FBI possess to shut down an entire website? To a big part it served as a legal tool of distribution for artists and other people... If I would count the legal shit that I downloaded via Megaupload in the past months, I would have quite a list. So how come an American organization terminates the access to data uploaded by people from all around the world? On a side note, of course Megaupload also used to be the website where I liked to get my other stuff (movies, music etc.) as it had always been reliable, fast and frequently used by most uploaders... This is quite a pain.
Well, it will probably end in most of said websites going abroad and starting over, although, kino.to was probably not an american wesite... Does the FBI actually have the right to operate internationally?
Not really, but they can put out warrants for arrest and pester the governments of other nations to hand over said criminals, kind of like what they did to New Zealand.
My second question is, were these sites taken with due process by law? Because we all know how the Fed like to just bust and shut shit down before actually investigating.
Kim Schmitz was a fraudulent embezzler pig anyways
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.es%2FMedia%2F201201%2F20%2Fkimschmitz_reuters--644x362.jpg&hash=6a04d1dd9ec56727242a8dad4295e8425e44febf)
Quote from: ZennyPLUS on January 20, 2012 09:05 PM
My second question is, were these sites taken with due process by law? Because we all know how the Fed like to just bust and shut shit down before actually investigating.
didn't it say they had been investigating for a couple years or something
Fuzz you party-pooping CUNT
uh well this sucks i had a bunch of shit on there
i recommend mediafire as an alternative
Mediafire has always been better for free users because you have never needed an account to parallel download and there is no data restrictions.
Well, it might only be a matter of time until they take down mediafire too... I mean in what way should other Filehosters be so much different? (ignoring the fact that they aren't managed by a filthy Kraut)
Quote from: retrosmash on January 21, 2012 08:30 AM
Fuzz you party-pooping CUNT
You can fuck off! I did no such thing!
Filesonic is the newest victim
Holy shit, you're right... at least you cannot download files anymore if you haven't uploaded them yourself...
I just wonder if they were actually forced into activating these conditions or if they just did it out of fear to become the next victim...
While I don't know exactly why filesonic made the change, from what I'm hearing a lot of websites have changed in some [bad] way after this megaupload event. Chances are it's more of a precautionary measure, at least until things cool down a little bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDryr225rM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SDryr225rM#)
MegaUpload Dangerous Secrets affect YOU, Mike Mozart JeepersMedia ACTA / PIPA / SOPA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ#ws)
That's quite an amount of thumbs ups...
it really seems unreasonable to me how this kind of sensationalism can fuel up people so much.
Quote from: Kott on January 23, 2012 09:05 AM
That's quite an amount of thumbs ups...
it really seems unreasonable to me how this kind of sensationalism can fuel up people so much.
He does bring up good points. The man has a way with words, to say the least and he knows to get people motivated. Sensationalism sells and bad news sells even better.
Well, that's true... he surely has a lot of charisma and some of the things he says are true but most of his theories are nothing but pure exaggeration. He certainly did fuel me up, though, as I started an argument with my linguistics university teacher about a completely unrelated topic right after posting my previous message but I think just the fact that it does seem to affect people so much although most of it is bullshit makes it a little creepy...
well, most of the other sites are pretty much dead, they're doing self censorship, so you can only download your own files. I'm guessing it'll be torrents and IRC again.
out of curiosity what other sites are down now? so far all i've seen in the wake of this is filesonic going private
well 4shared, FileJungle, FilePost, FileServe, MediaFire, UploadStation, Uploaded, VideoBB, VideoZer, Wupload
most of these deleted a shitton of accounts and files, blocked US users, stopped partner memberships, limited downloads to your own files, and whatnot, meaning that they are pretty much unusable
SHIT FUCK TITS DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
sendspace is also FUCKED up, I catually liked that site
mediafire seems to be working fine
Damn bitches
to be fair, all of these sites have always been required to abide by takedown notices. files get deleted from filesharing sites all the time - this is no surprise.
also, i have no issue accessing any of those sites. i also have a mediafire account and all of my stuff is still there (most of it is my own stuff though)
So the sites that can't be accessed right now are just laying low until this piracy sensationalism dies down, right? I only used Megaupload to download music and some anime. That was the only file sharing site I used so I don't know about any others.
Regardning animes, file hosters have actually are the most widely used method of spreading files online and megaupload used to be one of the majorly used hosters, if not the most frequently used hoster.
People at Minitheatre are going crazy
that's because it's the "easiest" way of getting stuff. more people are just gonna learn how to torrent
Titanic Soundtrack 16/16- Nearer My God To Thee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHn67C5x6A4#)
They still made their fortune on pirated content, even if they started obeying the rules later. Yes they didn't pirate shit personally, but it's a subtle manipulation that they knew people would and when they did they waited until they were loaded before taking action.
Plus there is also a charge for laundering money there also. This could probably have been settled through other means, but the owners may have forced their hand.
Quote from: BlueScarab on January 27, 2012 04:39 AM
They still made their fortune on pirated content
and cbs made millions by providing tools that let you download illegally, explaining to you how to download illegally, suggesting you things you can download illegally and all that. Not just CBS, also Warner and others but blabla go watch that video from last page. I've been checking out a lot of that stuff and what he says (for the most part) seems to be true.
as long as mediafire is safe, everything is good