Register To ReplyStupid question, what was Megaupload a website for?
Megaupload taken down by FBI.
Dark times for the internet. It seems the U.S. had to flex a bit of power after yesterdays blackout campaigns. In response Anonymous have successfully attacked RIAA, Hadopi.fr justice.gov, whitehouse.gov, fbi.gov, copyright.gov, Motion Pictures and Universal websites.
Quite fascinating to see all this pan out.
Last edited by flammablepiss; 20-01-2012 at 12:14 AM.
Stupid question, what was Megaupload a website for?
I'd never heard of it before. I used to use DarksideRG but I see that's gone now.
Spil op Sky Blå!!
Just like a filesharing website
I have used Pirate Bay.
When they come knocking on my door though I am going to tell them I was looking to buy a parrot.
SOPA, in it's current format will never be passed through, I can understand parts of it and see how companies need to protected against film piracy for example, but this law is just completely wrong. If I posted on here and asked how to fix the brakes on my bike and someone replied to it with a step by step process, that would be classed as piracy which for me is just completely wrong. Money talks unfortunately.
SKY SPORTS ruining football since 1992
Mine's saying nowt at the moment.
Yeah it was one of the biggest file sharing sites online (Like rapidshare basically). I used to use it loads before torrents were popular. SOPA will be passed in some form it just depends how much of the bill they change to become more reasonable.
SOPA won't pass, not after yesterday and all the backers doing a U-Turn. The best one was the guy who actually wrote SOPA will actually be breaking it himself as he used at least one picture without crediting the artist.
Megaupload is the biggest filesharing website around (4% of the internet traffic they claim). Its the US flexing their muscles as they managed to arrest the owners of the site in New Zealand and the actual site is registered in Hong Kong.
Its interesting to see the first shells being lobbed but theres a way to go yet with Anon. & the US Gov. I'm glad someone is sticking up for the people though (SOPA/PIPA is NOT about piracy, its about control and politics).
It's a ruse by Universal to stop people from downloading "The Thing". Universal has made false allegations against MegaUpload before. I think they've also uploaded some corrupted versions of the movie to stop people from playing it back.
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