Megaupload busted.

[rockouthippie]

Megaupload.com is shut down by the US justice department. Now..... before we all go yelling about how unfair this is of the government, look at the case.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/J...2-crm-074.html

Shutting this down seems like a completely justifiable action. This goes well beyond an ISP having hosting space that people used for infringement. The justice department says they also paid people to upload copyright files. That got Megaupload money laundering charges on top of everything else.

This isn't the "in private" prosecution that everyone is worried about. The owners all got warrants.

See.... we don't need SOPA and PIPA. We didn't need to weaken DMCA safe harbor provisions. I think it's actually pretty hard to do significant infringement and be exonerated by DMCA safe harbor. These guys couldn't stay clean enough to not to.

Being in foreign countries didn't help the criminals either. Various authorities from other governments arrested them and handed them over.

This seems to work pretty good the way it is.

[thinktink]

Wow, I didn't know megavideo was megaupload. I got that FBI shutdown notice when I tried to visit their site. Nice!



I never liked megavideo anyway. They only let you watch 72 minutes worth and if a movie was longer you could never watch the rest of it no matter what.

[Sabine Klare]

Hello everyone,
my friends have told me this problem in the Flatcast-Chat today.
I had my 10 free downloadable songs there, everything was my own music, my MP3 Special Edition in 320 kbps with embedded artwork.
I have already posted in 2 other threads, that my 10 songs are not available anymore. Then I have removed all the 10 download-links in my Facebook-notices (in my personal profile and in my musician-page "Sternenmaschinebine"), also in my video-descriptions in my video-uploads with my own music in YouTube.
I am thinking about Mediafire, Hotfile or Filefactory for the re-uploads of my 10 MP3-files, in hope, that my files will stay there a little bit longer.
I have read in some threads, that Mediafire, Dropbox and Sendspace could be used (and that Stashbox cannot be used anymore).
I am not a member of GEMA, UMG, BMG, EMG or whatever, I own all copyrights of all my own music, and I can make my own decisions with my own music. I have decided, that my own music should be free downloadable...
Greetings from Sabine Klare Aka Sternenmaschinebine (who continues to be very angry now)

[rockouthippie]

I don't know how the rest of the online file sites are gonna be affected. I think it should be possible to do a drop box for peoples files legally. If what the justice department says about Megaupload is true, they were really trying to be criminal. We aren't talking anything like due diligence. 1 billion hits. 4% of the internet. 150 million dollars in profits. Paying people to upload stuff that was copyrighted. This doesn't seem like Dropbox.

If it's your own music, you could probably just get a domain name @godaddy. You get a free hosting account with a domain. 300GB of bandwidth a month ought to be good enough for 10 mp3's. Thats $2/yr if you use a .info domain name. I think they are still on sale for $2.

Godaddys not gonna pull anything without a dmca notice, so you'd have permanent links.

[thinktink]

http://techland.time.com/2012/01/20/...iid=moreontime

[rockouthippie]

Yeah... that cyber-anarchy crap is just really useful.

These guys got 150 million dollars to promote movie piracy. More of these sites have gotten the big bucks. This gets to be organized crime.

Anonymous and crew pick funny heroes some days.