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  • MEGAUPLOAD shut down by American FBI

    To all fellow forum visitors.

    I just read in one of our national newspapers (Netherlands) the American FBI shut down www.megaupload.com

    4 People have been arrested in New Zealand at the FBI's request.

    Bad News!

    Take Care

    Dutchie

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    The federal authorities on Thursday announced that they had charged seven people connected to the Web site Megaupload, including its founder, with running an international criminal enterprise centered on copyright infringement on the Internet.

    According to a grand jury indictment, Megaupload — one of the most popular “locker” services on the Internet, which lets users anonymously transfer large files — generated $175 million in income for its operators through subscription fees and advertising, while causing $500 million in damages to copyright holders.

    Four of the seven people, including the site’s founder Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz, have been arrested in New Zealand, the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday; the three others remain at large. The seven — who a grand jury indictment calls part of a “Mega Conspiracy” — have been charged with five counts of copyright infringement and conspiracy, the authorities said.

    The charges, which the government agencies said represented “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States,” come at a charged time, a day after online protests against a pair of antipiracy bills being considered by Congress — the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, in the House, and the Protect I.P. Act, or PIPA, in the Senate.

    The indictment was handed down by a grand jury in Virginia two weeks ago, but was unsealed on Thursday, and stems from a federal investigation that began two years ago.

    The Megaupload case touches on many of the most controversial aspects of the antipiracy debate.

    Megaupload and similar locker sites, like Rapidshare and Mediafire, are often promoted as being convenient ways to legitimately transfer large files — a recent promotional video had major stars like Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas singing Megaupload’s praises. But they have become notorious among media companies, who see them as abetting copyright infringement on a large scale by giving people easy, but unauthorized, access to movies, music and other content.

    Megaupload is currently engaged in a lawsuit with Universal over the promotional video and Universal’s efforts to have it removed from YouTube.

    As part of the crackdown on Megaupload, 20 search warrants were executed in nine countries, including the United States. About $50 million in assets were also seized, as well as a number of servers and 18 domain names, the authorities said.

    Ira P. Rothken, a lawyer for Megaupload, said in a phone interview on Thursday afternoon that he had not yet seen the indictment, but he added: “Clearly we have due process concerns. This was done without a hearing.”

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    • #3
      KCUF the Men in Black!
      Last edited by vladv; 20-01-12, 06:39.

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        • #5
          It's unfortunate, it was a great site.

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          • #6
            LOL, Kardel Sharpeye!!

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            • #7
              Don't be surprised, there may be a lot more closures by the US Govt. It's all Obama wanting to gather votes under his socialistic regime showing the world of his grasp at power. My best advice is: Stay Under the Radar, if your within his reach.

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              • #8
                Two years ago that ****ing SEC seized my banker for over 30 years and ALL my life savings went down the drain.
                Makes you wonder who so many deep inside now support Al Qaeda movements.
                Our money gest stolen everywhere along the globe by governments.

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                • #9
                  FreddyFX, while I mined diamonds in West Africa for years, I learned the Lebanese that mine there send about $$$ 110M annually to fund Hezbollah. Trust me, there will never be anyone or any Government that could stop people from giving money to whom they want.
                  Last edited by maddman; 22-01-12, 22:16.

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                  • #10
                    Warning

                    I guess eventually many sites which refers to download links will be gone soon, maybe even this one. One site that I always go to to find posted links to latest movie downloads is now gone also, the DNS entry no longer exists. Another site has this posted on their site now:

                    News

                    WARNING: All reports, requests and megaupload/fileserve/hosting site related comments in in the comments section of movie/drama posting will be deleted. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME TYPING!

                    WARNING: DO NOT PURCHASE Fileserve,Filejungle or Uploadstation PREMIUM ACCOUNT. They are own by the same guy. Fileserve have been deleting premium accounts with NO WARNINGS! We will not be posting up anymore Fileserve links. We will sit back and wait until this whole situation is over with Fileserve and Megaupload.
                    MegaUpload has been shutdown. In response to this we have CLOSED the dead links report forum so it doesn't get flooded. We have also CLOSED the request forum. We will reopen these two forums when things settle down. As of now do not report any dead links. Get more information and talk about about what's happening HERE IN THE FORUM.

                    New layout is undergoing changes please bear with us.

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                    • #11
                      I belong to a warez share site which has mega downloads I would like to have. I just purchased a premium 30 day membership to rapidly download what I can this weekend. My guess is that within 6 months, all share sites will disappear and sites like this will follow unfortunately. I wonder what Uncle Sam will want to control next.

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                      • #12
                        ForexMike, Let me tell you, Obama wants to control YOU!!!

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                        • #13
                          now it iz FILESONIC 's turn .. restricting access to downloading . . confirmed

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by bhargav View Post
                            now it iz FILESONIC 's turn .. restricting access to downloading . . confirmed
                            Yesterday I was downloading, and then all of a sudden, the FILESONIC site was no longer responding. Soon, there will be no place we can download anything from....

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                            • #15
                              now Fileserve n Filejungle too joined the club ... what next ? where all this goes ...

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