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MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested

MegaUpload, one of the largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, has been shut down by federal prosecutors in Virginia. The site’s founder Kim Dotcom and three others were arrested by the police in New Zealand at the request of US authorities. MegaVideo, the streaming site belonging to same company, and a total of 18 domains connected to the Mega company were seized and datacenters in three countries raided.

megauploadJust a few weeks ago, MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak that his Mega ventures have nothing to worry about, as they operate within the rules of the law.

“Mega has nothing to fear. Our business is legitimate and protected by the DMCA and similar laws around the world. We work with the best lawyers and play by the rules.

“We take our legal obligations seriously. Mega’s war chest is full and we have strong supporters backing us,” Dotcom said.

But behind the scenes powerful forces were at work, plotting the forceful demise of MegaUpload, one of the world’s biggest websites.

An indictment unsealed today by the Department of Justice claims that MegaUpload has caused the entertainment industries more than $500 million in lost revenue and generated $175 million “in criminal proceeds.”

Two corporations – Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited – were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on January 5th, 2012, and charged with “engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement.”

Today, the authorities executed in excess of 20 search warrants in the United States and eight other countries.

Data centers in the Netherlands, Canada and Washington housing MegaUpload’s equipment were raided. In an apparent reference to the latter location, a source has just informed TorrentFreak that the FBI are currently detaining everyone at the ISP Cogent Communications’ headquarters in Washington DC, in connection with a Mega-related search warrant.

In addition to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom who was arrested today in New Zealand, another six alleged members of the Mega “conspiracy” were charged in the indictment:

- Finn Batato, 38, Mega’s chief marketing officer and a citizen and resident of Germany
- Julius Bencko, 35, Mega’s graphic designer from Slovakia
- Sven Echternach, 39,Mega’s German head of business development;
- Mathias Ortmann, 40, the German CTO, co-founder and director of Mega
- Andrus Nomm, 32, programmer and head of the development from Estonia
- Bram van der Kolk, 29, a Dutch citizen who oversaw programming and network issues.

Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by authorities there. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm are still at large.

The authorities seized approximately $50 million in assets, which appears to include Kim Dotcom’s treasured collection of several dozen cars, as detailed below.

Megacars

A total of 18 Mega-related domains were also seized by authorities including Megastuff.co, Megaworld.com, Megaclicks.co, Megastuff.info, Megaclicks.org, Megaworld.mobi, Megastuff.org, Megaclick.us, Mageclick.com, HDmegaporn.com, Megavkdeo.com, Megaupload.com, Megaupload.org, Megarotic.com, Megaclick.com, Megavideo.com, Megavideoclips.com and Megaporn.com.

According to the Department of Justice, the individuals named in the indictment face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit racketeering, five years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and five years in prison on each of the substantive charges of criminal copyright infringement.

The legal action against Mega will set a precedent for similar cloud-hosting services. The MegaUpload site itself had no search function to discover content directly, but according to the indictment this was done to “conceal the scope of its infringement.” Would the same be true for services such as Dropbox?

Breaking story, more to come.

Related:

- Anonymous retaliates
- What happens to Megaupload’s Grammy Winning CEO
- MegaUpload Back? Don’t Be Fooled by Scammers
- I Want my Personal Files Back!!
- MegaUpload Hires Former Bill Clinton Lawyer


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  • Tom D.

    I.. what.. huh..

    I can’t even react properly.

  • Asdd

    first

  • Benjy

    Scary

  • Chuckfarley

    damn i so hope Megaupload kicks their asses big time and shows em how the cookie crumbles

  • Fred66

    Don’t take this the wrong way but have to admit I’d never heard of it:)

  • Guest

    I don’t understand why they rely on just .com US domain, at least buy a .co.uk or similar..

  • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

    rip internet fuck chris dodd former bankster criminal fuck hollywood this is just the beginning:/

    • Anon

      Not if we the people remove asses from chairs and fight back like we did yesterday. This is ours to lose boys and girls! No one is going to save us but us.

      • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

        No doubt that’s why I’m uploading a video to youtube right now!

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001798849638 Karen Allmond

          How can anyone find the video? The name please?

        • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

          Which video the one I made? If so let me know here and i’ll post it.

  • Anonymous

    Federal prosecutors work for the MPAA apparently.

  • Moxie

    Why did I have to wake up to this

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001798849638 Karen Allmond

      Imagine my disappointment when I woke up to watch a couple of my shows and they were gone!

  • Anonymous

    This is just a tiny tiny preview of what sopa will be like

  • Guest

    This will be a fight worth watching, Kim DotCom isn’t some defenseless teen.

    • http://profiles.google.com/pearljamamerica John Briggs

      He is defenseless when they have seized all of his assets.

      • Guest

        Ha. Back to ‘No Win, No Fee’ shysters. Kim: ‘Make it so, Number One!’

      • Anonymous

        That depends on where he left them but you are right that they seized as much as possible to try and deny his mega fight back.

  • Brown Trousers

    Another dead hero

    • Anonymous

      Dead? He ain’t dead yet, Jim.

  • Bob

    so remind me why they need new laws in the us again??? and where does the 500 million come from exactly? I have used megaupload for downloading game mods a lot so their traffic is not all pirated stuff

    • Ven

      It doesn’t have to be 100% dirty, they just have to show that Mega knowingly profited from copyrighted material being shared

      • Pixelghostmachine

        this wont stick in any way. that is an extremely small loop hole they are trying to exploit. if anything, the site will be shut down for maybe a month tops. charges wont stick. as they do have cleaners who remove copyright infringement products on the website. not to mention, mega is a multi million dollar business. you think they cannot afford decent lawyers? the arrest carried out was done illegally. and not properly. if anything, they just stirred the internet hornet nest. i would not be suprised if their websites get attacked by hackers and shit. megaupload and video and other services are the backbone to the internet. lots of people use that service too. how about all the accounts that just got cancelled? every customer could go to court with the very people who shut the website down. just a matter of time bro.

        • Guest

          you assume us govt agencies actually follow the law

        • Ven

          Can you point out to me specific legal sources that explain why the arrest was improper and illegal?

          Give it your best shot, but emails from MU execs heavily incriminate them as people knowingly profiting from copyrighted content being shared on their website. And hackers did attack websites, but they attacked static websites that nobody cares about.

          And lastly no, customers could not take law enforcement to court for shutting down their accounts. Their contracts are with Mega Upload, they would have to take them to court over it. Of course, since Mega will no longer exist if all the charges stick, I wouldn’t bet on seeing any money.

  • http://twitter.com/Blikes Damien

    A glimpse of what’s to come if SOPA/PIPA are passed.

    • Anon

      What do they need SOPA for when they can do whatever they please with no regards to it’s legality or constitutionality.

      • http://twitter.com/al_d_25 booda dass

        Just what i was thinking, if they can raid data centres around the world, arrests and shutting down web sites. “BTW .CO is Columbian” .. so now it looks like then can even shut down site in other country and take assets without even going to court first… what`s the point of SOPA? They are doing it already ….

      • Michael Windon

        this is exactly my point! SOPA just opens it up more! SOPA would but google and the other big boys in the cross hairs if they dont comply

      • Anonymous

        With SOPA/PIPA site takedowns will be possible with a form letter, saves money on lawyers and you don’t even need to own the content.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001798849638 Karen Allmond

        Remember, we’re “this close” to living in a police state as it is.

  • janicia

    :(

  • Mike

    Very bad news. MU was one of the best file sharing sites there was, with stuff uploaded in 2006 still being downloadable.

  • Blackjesus
  • Aniki

    Someone is going to pay for this.

    • Anonymous

      That is what the LOIC application is for.

  • TSO

    america, the cancer destroying the internet. not fucking cool.

    • @Anon

      Yeah…there also wouldn’t be an internet without America. But yeah, IT’S ALL AMERICA’S FAULT, boo fucking hoo.

      • ameriscam

        Pretty much yep.

      • Guest

        Exactly. The internet beamed around the world from Center Of the Universe, USA.

      • OMGWTFBBQ

        Haha, Americans! You really think you invented everything don’t you? The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). You know CERN right? It’s where they have the Large Hadron Collider.

        • ANON

          Is that sarcasm? The Internet came out of ARPANET.

        • invisible

          The World Wide Web is a service or layer built on the internet. The internet, is the backbone that the USA created as ARPANET. So to be clear, the Internet is a US development, that the World Wide Web is BASED on. Without the internet, there would be no World Wide Web.

        • Dutchfag

          While you’re right, the person you’re replying is also right as the internet (ie. the underlying network has been designed by the US DoD (DARPANET)), the WWW we all use today has been developed by Berners-Lee. In other words, the internet (in it’s current form) is a worldwide collaborative result.

          offtopic, not an american

        • I’m THAT Guy

          TBL invented the web, true, but take away the internet (which was an outgrowth of darpanet, which was built by DARPA, a US government agency) and he’s got nothing to run the web on…

          WWW != internet…

        • Guest

          True, but with American assistance it will soon be broken and useless.
          A bit like everything the Americans get involved in, a sort of reverse Midas Touch, were everything they lay their greedy hands on turns to sh*t.

        • Anonymous

          Soon it will be the hasbeennet. We can tell our grandkids about the wild west of the real Internet. “Back in the day…”

        • Havefun

          I guess the mentality is like your mom’s: I brought you into this world, I can take you out, right? Lol, not funny, but srsly other countries, next time try inventing all the greatest inventions of the last 200 yrs. yourselves (cars, airplanes, etc.) then maybe you’ll have more control over sh*t. ;)

        • http://twitter.com/NigzThaBoss Console Gaming

          This is actually @Havefun …. lol… Americans invented the car and all the other ‘great’ inventions did they? In general I like Americans, but seriously, some of you guys have your heads jammed so far up your own backsides it’s mind boggling. Do some of you get dragged away and brainwashed or something?

          Anyway, I hate getting into these things, but that mindless dribble just blew me away.

        • American Might

          You do know the rest of you exist at our whim, don’t you?

          It’s our planet. You just live on it.

        • Roberto

          You should know that the world’s first packet switching network was RETD (now IBERPAC), created in Spain by the Telefónica company under their R&D department. It started providing commercial services in 1971 well before the ARPANET and it’s still in use.

        • Guest

          Charles Babbage and Alan Turin invented the computer (in last 200 years), neither of which are american. Without the computer there would be no internet.
          Also without the computer, britain would have lost the battle of the Alantic to the Nazi u – boats in WW2; and there would be no america. Just living space for facists and dictators who burn books, and destroy freedoms.
          Hold on a sec….
          History repeating….

          99% of americans are wonderful normal freedom loving people, just a shame you only vote in the bad 1%, do anything for a buck muppets everytime.

        • Indian

          No actually an Indian Saint invented the internet while doing yoga on one leg.

      • TSO

        “wouldn’t be an internet without America.”
        Fucking hell americans are stupid. The internet was not created by any one person or country, it took contributions from all around the world to get the internet as we know today.

        And yes, it is americas fault. You dumb shits vote the mother fuckers in who inflict this damage on the internet, not just affecting the people in your own country but anybody else who uses the internet as well.

        For what its worth, I don’t think all americans are stupid. Ron paul seems intelligent. Its just a shame he won’t ever be elected.

        • Jesse Ouellette

          Yeah it is a shame, and our government is so corrupt, even if he were to be elect, there is no doubt the puppets of Rockafeller and Rothschild would have him assassinated. Ron Paul believes in the constitution, not socialism and communism, which won’t fly here apparently.

        • Galenos

          Okay, there you go generalizing and directing your hate against all Americans when it should be pretty damn obvious that the majority of us are not happy with who’s in power and what’s going on either.

          This is one very tiny facet of a very major power struggle, everyone inside and outside the U.S. needs to take a good hard look at the ongoing corruption in nearly every government (which has been going on since long before the U.S. ever existed) and realize the people to blame here are greedy corrupt politicians and wealthy big business owners with a long, long history of manipulation and maneuvering to keep their stranglehold over the world’s power (the founders of the U.S. were wealthy landowners too, and that hasn’t changed much since its founding).

          It is not the entirety of the “ruling class” against the rest of us, if you take half a moment to think about how many people there are in the world. It’s tons more complex than that.

          Take into account that originally the U.S. had a policy of not getting involved in outside politics, and then realize how absolutely impossible that actually is to do when you’ve got the rest of the entire fucking world encroaching on your financial borders, and you’ll see that the entire world is to blame for this shit (if not by their actions, then by inaction). If you don’t like it, fix it. That’s our fucking job.

        • JustSomeGuy

          I have to, very unfortunately, agree with you.

          I am an American, and I feel like my Constitution has been stolen from me and the rest of the US population.

          It’s consistent that we elect individuals into office that have no real understanding of that document, and go into politics to make boat-loads of Lobbyist money. The worst part is that we fall for it every time. Even now, in a place filled with loons, an honest politician like Ron Paul can get no where. If it’s not the media, it’s the school system, if it’s not the school system it’s the people that watch the biased media. All of these people have facilitated the brainwash of multiple generations.

          On behalf of myself and the rest of America, I’m sorry for this event. I wish we could learn our lesson. I can only hope that this is the year that we fix things. Ron Paul stands a good chance a long as he garners the necessary support. (He’s already got like 10% of the Senate on his side, which speaks volumes!)

          Do understand that a lot of us are aware of this and we’re trying to make a change for the better. In the meantime, you support is much appreciated.

        • Galenos

          And for the record, Obama just saved our collective planetary asses in a way, by vetoing the construction of a major dirty pipeline that would basically have created an incredibly deadly situation for the entire planet involving runaway pollution. Give the man some credit. You do not have to give him ALL of the credit, but you ought to give him some – after all, the Internet is not the only important thing in the world. If you want proof, read more news.

          On the other hand, all politicians who don’t give a fuck about anything but money and power are incompetent as leaders, and so are their ignorant counterparts such as Ron Paul and the rest of the Republican candidates. Paul would almost be the most harmless of the republicans we could elect, except for his plans to completely ignore the massive power vacuums that would be created in the territories we are “occupying” if we were to suddenly leave them.

          Yeah, believe it or not, in some ways we are actually using our military power to maintain the status quo in otherwise chaotic regions (and I am not just talking about the major bungles in the middle east that have gone badly). Maybe if we could afford to do it properly, that would be a permanent thing. As it is, this hinges on the decisions of greedy, power-hungry politicians, and the few leaders who oppose them by becoming argumentative, uncompromising cogs in the machine. You know, that thing that a lot of the U.S.’ leaders have forgotten how to do because they’re so focused on being “bipartisan” (and there’s people on both sides who have every intention of just being bad apples, I admit this).

          As a society, Americans need to become more informed and less ignorant about who they are putting in power. But you also need to realize that being a good judge of others’ moral character is ridiculously difficult – especially when our entire political system is influenced by ads put on TV and everywhere else which are funded by corrupt sacks of crap and the businesses that support them in return for continued future political support. You know, the same people who support SOPA and PIPA and are obviously behind this bullshit that happened with Megaupload.

          But yes, a lot of Americans are ignorant. It’s difficult for many of us not to be, given our entire history as a nation being reliant on conflicting major publications for our political information, because we are just so ridiculously expansive as a nation. This is a problem even the Internet can’t solve overnight; we have to solve it ourselves, over time. But I guarantee you, hatefully playing the blame game won’t solve a damn thing. Cooperation and guidance will. If you actually have something meaningful to contribute, do so. Otherwise, get off the Internet.

        • Galenos

          Wow look at that. Someone talking about communism in an article about a site being shutdown for SHARING information FREELY, AS NEEDED. Oh wait, I forgot, this is something ignorant people get confused about. Do you actually know what these terms mean and you’re just playing stupid?

          Wikipedia works again, GO LOOK IT UP.

        • fuusa

          I say fuck the us governement they are corrupt and steal so much money them selfs. they just wanted a piece of the money that mega upload made and this is a way they can take 50 million and its legal for now. But when the trial happens and the judge sayes not guilty then the fbi will look stupid and say oops.

      • Ricky Thomson

        Screw america, the internet’s father (ARPANET) was born in the UK!

        • Anonymous

          ARPANET (more commonly known as DARPANET) was made by the US government. It served as an important connection between universities and “super computers” (ah, the cray computer of yore).

          I’m not saying that the UK did nothing, I think you guys solved the whole “so where the F*ck is that computer?” thing with the foundations of the WWW.

          The young internet and www met and next thing you knew everybody was up in there.

          So no need to get all uppity about this because nothing nationalistic happened in the last 20 years.

      • Squibble

        A bastard can not be created without a father.

      • Marko

        Please american boy stfu!! HTTP is made in CERN, Switzerland.. PLEASE, stfu.

        • Anonymous

          Again why the hate?

          but to fair, HTTP was both a blessing and a curse … but in the end the benefits were more significant.

          So calm down buddy, americans built the foundation, the brits made it pretty, and you did some landscaping.

          I really don’t know who did the interior though … ;P

          Again, calm down

      • Henk

        Wrong!! Do you research! The US wasn’t the only party responsible for the creation of the internet!

      • Guest632

        Ummmm….America isnt the only contributor to the internet, there is a reason its referred to as the WORLD WIDE WEB….its AMERICA that decided it wanted to introduce censorship on a product that they don’t infact entirely own….seriously? It is America’s Fault for introducing such a retarded bill as SOPA or PIPA….What gives any country the right to censor something that is owned and operated by every country in the world? NOTHING….so fuck them, for them to take away the freedoms of other countries is tyranny, might as well call it Hitlerca.

      • Shghfl

        You are a total dumbass aren’t you? Sure America MADE the internet, but the internet has expanded far wider then just America, with additions made from many other countries throughout the world. So, with this SOPA act, will they also shut down Firefox and Windows Internet Explorer, simply because they held links which could lead to the sites with the alleged “copyright material”?

        This is what amuses me about the government. They are just a bunch of fat-ass rejects sitting on a high horse without giving a damn what the people they are attempting to rule over thing. Even though they are technically supposed to support us. The governments iron hand is allowed to be in place because of retarted rejects like yourself and so many others that think the government are all goody-two-shoes.

        I have three words for you: Get A Life.

    • John R.

      Not America, more like The United States; those stupid lawyers who know nothing about the internet, and pretend to play world’s police are getting me sick!

      • Anonymous

        The USA are commonly called America. The continents are the Americas.

        • http://artem-karimov-93.ya.ru/ Artem Karimov

          You forgot Canada.

  • Jo

    Thanks U.S.A. Again.

  • Guest

    MOTHERFUCKERS!

  • http://twitter.com/Warezweek Warezweek

    Insane

    • Anonymous

      From what I have read so far then “invalid” and “insane” are the two words that spring to mind.

  • Nio

    And so it begins …

  • http://twitter.com/akuma_river Brandelyn

    ICE the US version of SOPA/PIPA.

    This is going to be an ugly lawsuit. I got legal content on that site. They had no right to shut it down.

    • Anonymous

      This to me will be the OJ Simpson of copyright cases.

  • Anon

    So fucking typical american fucking “authorities” reaching into other countries and just shouting orders (and the fact that our governments are obedient dogs).

    • Anonymous

      trust me, the informed american citizens are extremely sick of the bloated, corrupt government that is running things. It needs to end. Whether it by by Ron Paul getting elected or WW3.

      Ron Paul 2012.

      • Anon

        The government is nothing but a tool for the Elite.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXX4S66KOUIGIKTTIMV3CBGO7Y Colin

          That’s true of just about every nation on the planet (with some possible exceptions in South America) from North Korea to Thailand, to France to the USA.
          This sadly leads me to the belief that the ‘solution’, if that’s the right word, to the world’s dictatorships is to stop playing by their rules (laws). That means things will get VERY messy.

      • Anonymous

        sadly Ron Paul is a conservative Jesus-nut, so while he has some good ideas he is still just a typical American.

        • JustSomeGuy

          To be fair, while he is Christian, he’s not a “nut”. His book I just read referenced how every religion (most of um at least) promote love and peace not war. So he’s obviously open minded. (just as tidbit of info, I’m agnostic)

          Either way, your opinion is yours. But I do think you should do a little more research. He’s totally against his personal opinions and moral values obstructing his view of our political system. Even as a pro-life candidate he thinks it’s a societal issue that needs to be handled between the people or with the states, which is at least better than a Federal mandate.

          My point it is, he really is different. Just look some stuff up when you have time. In the meantime I’d suggest reading “Liberty Defined”. It was a very enlightening read for me.

        • FUCK THE MAFIAA

          “sadly Ron Paul is a conservative Jesus-nut,”

          Sadly, you’re a fucking idiot – the man is not a religious zealot and he’s far from “conservative.” Dr. Ron Paul is a Libertarian. “Conservatives” (all Neo-cons since there hasn’t been a single Traditional Conservative in government since Ronald Reagan left) can’t stand the guy. Ask any “Conservative” (Neo-con) how they feel about Dr. Ron Paul – you’ll hear nothing but ridicule and lies.

          “so while he has some good ideas”

          Just “some?!” All of his ideas are good (for American and the world) – stop policing the entire planet with some bullshit war “against terrorism,” stop kissing Israel’s ass and advancing Zionist interests at the expense of the American taxpayers, stop printing worthless fiat money and restore the gold standard, stop the private counterfeiting agency known as the “federal” reserve, stop meddling in every other country’s affairs, stop the senseless “war on drugs,” stop the erosion of our rights and liberties and most of all, stop the bloated government bureaucracy and the corporatism which is strangling this entire planet. If you have a better agenda, I’d like to hear it.

          “he is still just a typical American.”

          And you’re a brainwashed / indoctrinated mutant who believes every bit of disinformation regurgitated on the nightly “news.” I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if you’re a closet Obammunist too. Kindly shoot yourself. Twice.

      • Guest

        Even if Ron Paul did get elected, are you really inclined to believe another politician is going to be so dramatically different from the rest that suddenly all the corruption will vanish, the class divide will be cleared away, and we wouldn’t have the oh-so-independant congress bowing to every whim of some industry or another?

        • http://www.facebook.com/jtnktz Justin Katz

          Yes.

        • Ven

          Yep. Instead of the usual political double-speak you hear regarding solving tough problems, Paul actually has legit solutions.

          Instead of doing something like “Taking a good hard look at Social Security to see how we can get it working again” Paul just wants to cut it and start from scratch. He wants to do away with corporations as citizens, having military overseas, and leaving our southern border open. He wants to legalize MJ so we don’t have to deal with policing it anymore.

          I’m voting for him. It will be the first time I ever bothered to vote, because for once I don’t believe he is just another politician.

        • JustSomeGuy

          His honesty and consistency speak for themselves.

        • BooBooKittyPhuck

          “Even if Ron Paul did get elected, are you really inclined to believe another politician is going to be so dramatically different from the rest that suddenly all the corruption will vanish,”

          I doubt anyone is that naive – however, electing Ron Paul will send a clear message to the corporate prostitutes in our government (and perhaps in other governments as well). It certainly wouldn’t be any worse than electing another Socialist (Obama) or war-mongering Neo-con (like Bush).

          “the class divide will be cleared away,”

          Why should it? If you’re more talented, capable, resourceful or hardworking than I am, why should we be “equal?” Why shouldn’t people be rewarded according to their abilities? There’s nothing wrong with a “class divide” – if you have no incentive to better yourself, you’d be “stuck in neutral” until finally assuming room temperature. And who the phuck wants that? Marx? ;-)

          “and we wouldn’t have the oh-so-independant congress bowing to every whim of some industry or another?”

          Due to all the corruption, that will certainly continue for quite some time but not at the same degree. Again, the message would be sent and it’ll have the potential to spark a revolution of new ideas – which, come to think of it, are the old ideas which put US into existence. Electing another Liberal or Neo-con will only get US into more trouble – crack open a history book if you doubt me.

          Ron Paul 2012

      • Tsunku

        ron paul is no better, he just has a better lie. carefully look at his flat tax proposal. you’ll see that while poor and middle class pay 17% tax rate, his rich friends will be enjoying 8% tax rate.

        • Anonymous

          You are an idiot, he does not support the flat tax. Thats Gary Johnson. Paul supports the elimination of the federal income tax ie 0% taxation. Corporate tax rate of 15%. Corporate income tax of 0%.

          Why dont you actually research before you type.

        • BooBooKittyRon

          Obviously, you have Ron Paul confused with some Neo-con.
          Which makes you an ill-informed idiot.

      • Floppy Copy

        Thanks to entropy, nothing lasts forever. Not even the greatest golden age of all cannot survive forever, and history proves it. With so many hands at the helm and in the cookie jar, America will some day collapse and it’ll be nobodies fault but their own. It is my fervent wish that I am no longer alive when that happens because it is going to be a very messy affair for everyone throughout the world. It’s what always happens when innocent bystanders stand around a bloated, flailing whale in it’s death throes, doing nothing to save themselves.

        • Anonymous

          If we are using history as an example, then there are reasons behind each empire’s and monarchy’s fall. For the most part, the reason is simple, they started going against their founded principles, started to expand themselves, racked up a large debt either from other nations or its people in gold or resource, and crumbled. Learning from the past is the answer.

          Yes America will fall, but only because it has grown to become an empire. An empire it was never supposed to be. An empire that over the last 100 years ignored its principles and started expanding itself. First with a central bank, then direct taxation, and now through nation building.

          Of course America is still pretty young in terms of being a nation. We have only started truly nation building within the last decade. Amassed a debt in the last three. Majorly going against our founders words in a century. It CAN be turned around. It just needs to go back to the founding principles, listening to the constitution, being managed by the people.

      • It’s a fit-up

        You poor deluded fool.
        Ron Paul is a republican, he’s no less corrupt than all the others and and he’s just saying anything he has to to get morons like you to vote for him.

        Fuck me some people are easily impressed.

        • Anonymous

          wrong, he is a libertarian under the republican banner. Like Santorum, Newt, and Romney are statists.

          Ron Paul only joined the republican part to spread the message of liberty and libertarian philosophy in a political system controlled by two parties where third parties are not very welcome.

        • Ugly American

          “You poor deluded fool.”

          You poor indoctrinated Liberal and / or Neo-con tool.

          “Ron Paul is a republican,”

          …with a Libertarian ideology. Get a clue, moron. The Republican Party can’t stand him. That right there is reason enough to vote for him.

          “he’s no less corrupt than all the others”

          In what way is he “corrupt?” Show some evidence before you accuse. Or keep your stupid mouth shut.

          “and and he’s just saying anything he has to to get morons like you to vote for him.”

          Then please explain why his message hasn’t changed one bit in his entire political career – which, since you obviously don’t know, started years before you were aborted.

          “Fuck me some people are easily impressed.”

          Fuck you, indeed – so easily impressed / indoctrinated by the elite’s propaganda.

        • Al

          To SSJ12 – This is to those like – Noneofyourbusiness and guests who think America made everything. You really are very thick, ignorant, uncultured, self centred arseholes. Before making stupid arse comments about who made what and how great you believe you all are stop and think that your writing this on a computer so do a bit of research before making yourself look a dick.

          Charles Babbage (1837), a British professor of mathematics described his idea for the Analytical Engine, the first stored-program mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by a steam engine and was to use Punched Cards, which was used to program mechanical looms at the time.
          What made the Analytical Engine unique was that it was designed to be programmed.
          It was because of this and the fact that it would be more than 100 years that any similar devices would be constructed, Charles Babbage, would be considered by many as the “father of computing”. Because of legal, financial, and political obstacles, the Analytical Machine would never be completed. Charles Babbage was also difficult to work with and alienated the supporters of his work.

          Alan Turing (1912) London. His father was in the Indian Civil Service and Turing’s parents lived in India until his father’s retirement in 1926. Turing and his brother stayed with friends and relatives in England. Turing studied mathematics at Cambridge University, and subsequently taught there, working in the burgeoning world of quantum mechanics. It was at Cambridge that he developed the proof which states that automatic computation cannot solve all mathematical problems. This concept, also known as the Turing machine, is considered the basis for the modern theory of computation.
          In 1936, Turing went to Princeton University in America, returning to England in 1938. He began to work secretly part-time for the British cryptanalytic department, the Government Code and Cypher School. On the outbreak of war he took up full-time work at its headquarters, Bletchley Park.
          Here he played a vital role in deciphering the messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine, which provided vital intelligence for the Allies. He took the lead in a team that designed a machine known as a bombe that successfully decoded German messages. He became a well-known and rather eccentric figure at Bletchley.
          After the war, Turing turned his thoughts to the development of a machine that would logically process information. He worked first for the National Physical Laboratory (1945-1948). His plans were dismissed by his colleagues and the lab lost out on being the first to design a digital computer. It is thought that Turing’s blueprint would have secured them the honour, as his machine was capable of computation speeds higher than the others. In 1949, he went to Manchester University where he directed the computing laboratory and developed a body of work that helped to form the basis for the field of artificial intelligence. In 1951 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

          Alexander Graham Bell(1847) was a Scottish born – American scientist/inventor and educated in london was most famous for his pioneering work on the development of the telephone.

          Tim Berners Lee (1955 – london) – 20th century inventor of the World Wide Web

          John Baird (1888) – Mechanical Television System

          Thomas Savery – in 1698 patented the first crude steam engine

          Sir Alexander Fleming(1881) born in Scotland, died in London – Penicillin

          Humphry Davy (1809) an English chemist, invented the first electric light. Davy connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip betwween the other ends of the wires. The charged carbon glowed making the first arc lamp. (Bet every American is convinced it was Alexander Graham Bell, silly Americans)
          Sir Joseph Swan of Newcastle announced that he had made a working light bulb on 18 December 1878 and on 18 January 1879 he gave a public demonstration in Sunderland – 10 months before Edison

          Michael Faraday (1791-1867) British physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.

          Edwin Beard Budding (1830) was an engineer from Stroud, Gloucestershire, England- The first lawnmower

          Radio – David Edward Hughes, (D.E.Hughes), of Corwen (Denbighshire) – is recorded as the Welshman who became the first person in the world to transmit and receive radio waves. Evans, resident of North Wales, designed the synchronous type-printing telegraph in 1856. Yet another British first.

          Percy Shaw, from Yorkshire, England (1933) CAT’S EYE ROAD REFLECTOR

          William Caxton (1422-1491) was an English businessman who set up England’s first printing press in 1476

          Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892 in Scotland) First practical radar system, He developed radar to help track storms in order to keep aircraft safe. His invention eventually helped the allies win World War 2 against the Germans

          REFRIGERATOR
          The first method of refrigeration (cooling air by the evaporation of liquids in a vacuum) was invented in 1748 by William Cullen of the University of Glasgow, Scotland; Cullen did not apply his discovery to any practical purposes. Michael Farady, an English physicist liquefied ammonia to cause cooling (in the 1800′s). Faraday’s idea would eventually lead to the development of compressors, which compress gas to liquid form

          Also you might of heard of – Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare, Sir Isaac Newton, Captain James Cook, Professor Stephen Hawking, John Harrison
          (An English clock designer, who developed and built the world’s first successful maritime clock), Charles Dickens,Sir Frank Whittle, William Bourne – Submarine, Thomas Wedgewood -Photography.

          The list really could go on all night but i feel i have spent long enough proving a point.
          Please forward this to all your American friends to let them know there is a life outside the U.S and they didnt create it, well apart from this financial mess thats going on.

      • Thunderchiken

        Ron is waaay too poor, its gonna be Osama again and war…maybe the Mayans got it right.

        • Anonymous

          to poor? how so? he is the best selling author of like 10 books.

        • Rabbi Zionberg

          “Ron is waaay too poor,”

          So electing a rich guy who doesn’t care about the average person is the answer, huh? Great logic ya got there! <3

          "its gonna be Osama again and war…"

          A. Osama is dead – you're thinking of his Muslim cousin, Obama.
          B. Of course there will be war – President Romney will do what Israel tells him.
          C. Obama will NOT be reelected – he has pissed off the Zionists. "God's chosen people" do not forgive.

          "maybe the Mayans got it right."

          Retards, the lot of 'em – they didn't keep kosher and btw, they spoke of the end of an *era*, NOT the end of the world. Any retard who believes the world will end in 2012 should blow his brains out to fulfill the Mayan "prophecy."

          Shalom

    • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

      um it says New Zealand which is far worse the us authorities. i SAY GLOBAL FUCKING PROTEST!!START THROWING BURNING DVD’S/CD’S AT MPAA HEADQUARTERS!!

    • OMGWTFBBQ

      I hate the USA.

      • Anon

        When I was a young lad, I asked my parents why we Canadians don’t just become another American state. It seemed so obvious to my innocent mind. Thinking back on it, the look of shock I got from both of them was pretty funny. The resulting reprimand? Not so much, but educational lol. Now that I’m an adult, I understand what it means to be Canadian. I believe I also understand what it means to be American and every day I thank the true powers that be I’m not one, nor shall I ever be one. Who the hell would want to be a leper? Not anyone I know, that’s for sure. And some day a penniless leper to boot. So what do you do with an infected limb that cannot be saved? You cut it off, and the same goes for any section of the internet that has become damaged beyond repair. America is NOT needed for a global network to exist. They may have “invented” it as some here claim (which is debatable), but that is completely irrelevant as far as it’s continued existence is concerned. I say let them commit political/financial suicide with laws that bring an end to liberty one little slice at a time. That way America can be a lesson the rest of the world learns from, our descendants especially whom we rarely ever seem to consider in these matters. Yes it’s a slow death, but a death nonetheless and one most would agree they’ve earned. Out with the old, in with the new as the saying goes. From death springs new life, and the wheel of history continues to go around and around and around…

        • Bill Lambert

          The U.S. will be the example of how far tyranny can run before violent protests break out. The people over there are not used to fighting for their rights, nor are they willing to let go of their fetished properties. Worse than any religious dogma, the “American Dream” is the chain around their necks, the shackles upon their feet.

          The day U.S. citizens revolt, everyone will be watching and cheering, and other world leaders will be shitting bricks. To take the complacent Americans and drive them to civil war will be no small feat.

      • Hu Flung Zjit

        You must be Chinese too… <3

  • CrazySh’t

    Are the likely to go after downloaders or just the people running the sites?

    • Anonymous

      the RIAA and MPAA will probably target downloaders

      • killweed

        I JUST renewed my MU premium subscription YESTERDAY. Can I have my money back, please??!!! And, can my personal information be deleted from the records? I’d hate to be sent to jail for having watched “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” online last night.

    • http://twitter.com/akuma_river Brandelyn

      both. But they don’t realize there is a LOT of legal content on that site and they are facing a MAJOR lawsuit.

    • Lkljklasdf

      Sure, after they jailed the 10 Mio uploaders they will probably go after the 100 Mio downloaders … right?

      • Goat Porn

        Megaupload used to get 50 million hits a day. It has 180 million registered users. If anything 100 million downloaders is a very conservative estimate. The RIAA and MPAA would certainly have a lot of people to go after; including – I suspect – most of the population of Russia and Eastern Europe.

        • Lkljklasdf

          I just made up some numbers to show how unlikely this will be!

          But hey, maybe the release all the black people and pot smokers, then they have enough space :P

    • Goat Porn

      I doubt even the RIAA and MPAA would sue millions of people at once for mass copyright infringement based on dodgy ip address records logged in Hong Kong.

      • Anonymous

        I can only quote English law but my lawyer once said that no evidence can be obtained about a third party from a raid against you. In other words all that can be investigated is the complaint on the seizure order.

        • Anonymous

          Not to mention jurisdiction. In all of this, I’m disappointed in the New Zealand government which has laid down and played dead for the US several times from pressure on copyright reform and enforcement. Unfortunately, Canada (where I’m from) would likely do the same. There is less resources and less enforcement for international murder cases than there is for arresting a bunch of guys who run servers on the Internet. What a crazy distorted justice system(s) we have.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Token-Andrade/100003154512204 Joseph Token Andrade

      Probably just the people who run the sites. Besides, how are they going to collect taxes so they can have parties if 10 million uploaders are in jail?

    • PelouzeTF

      Probably downloaders too.

  • Solidmass

    bou time. cigars for everyone ;)

    • Havefun

      Total.Loser.

    • AnalCigarProbe

      Stick one in your Solidmass – sideways.

  • Bill Lambert

    Mother fucking fuckers!

    You know the sad thing about all this, is many Americans simply don’t realize how much hate they’re getting from us foreigners as a direct consequence of their overreaching government and military. What the fuck kind of authority do they have, to arreset people in New Zealand ? Shame on the FBI, and shame on the NZ government for bending over. If they don’t start fighting for their citizens’ freedoms, then they will soon find themselves fighting those same citizens in a civil war.

    • Anonymous

      Fight using what? We could vote in Mickey Mouse and he’d turn out to be yet another dirty politician who bends over for corporations. Between half the population being dumbasses with no real world experience, and the fact that the politicians are the ones who give us the “choice” between candidates, you’ll notice that Americans themselves really have no choice in the matter.

      Get a clue. If your government wrongly arrested someone half-way across the world for something you don’t give a damn about, would you stand up for his rights and attempt to overthrow your own government? Of course not. With that in mind, would you expect the 90% of American citizens who don’t give a damn about copyright infringement to overthrow their government for the same reason? You’re a hypocrite.

      All governments are corrupt. Perhaps you should stop reading torrentfreak and start reading other news until you become more aware of this fact.

      • Bill Lambert

        It used to be, one could be ignorant of these topics and live a normal, happy life. Not anymore. We’ve already witnessed radical changes in the Arab world, where leaders didn’t even attempt to mask their tyrannical affairs, but people in the U.S. are starting to wake up and realize their lives are not getting any better.

        If my faith in humanity’s ability to correct its mistakes makes me a hypocrite, then I’ll wear that label with pride while you tend to your navel gazing.

    • Guest

      Have you ever been to America? The majority doesn’t care what other countries think- we have so much that we can be so insular- it’s like, everything goes out, nothing comes in. Sorry to say. That’s what come from at least 60 years of total cultural hegemony.

      • gjd

        Yeah, that’s why you keep inventing wars…

        • Nobug

          Yeah, that’s why … :/

    • Orland

      For Americans but also according to americans, if you’re not american, you’re nothing…. Basically… that’s all.

  • No

    everyone join me in going to youtube and listening to the megaupload song one more time

    • Guest

      “Don’t forget to comment, rate, favorite and subscribe!” :P

  • Mr. Putin

    Holy shit! I was looking at Memebase, laughing at a fap joke… go to torrentfreak…

    *Face drops, reads ‘Megaupload shut down by the feds, founder arrested’*

    Holy shit! I … this isn’t even ThePirateBay or some piracy site… this is a professional file host. WTF!

    This is like “interwebs blackout against SOPA, we remind you who’s boss”

    Wow, I feel so disappointed with the Feds right now. SoPathetic.

    Megaupload, you’ll have my support all the way! Best of luck to you.

    • PelouzeTF

      ‘Holy shit! I … this isn’t even ThePirateBay or some piracy site… this is a professional file host. WTF!”

      its a professional site host if you’re naive to their piracy.

      • Guest

        I know some of their users did, but I wasn’t aware that Megaupload committed piracy.

        Are you perhaps talking out of your ass? Probability says: yes.

        • PelouzeTF

          maybe you don’t know that much about Megaupload then.

      • Guest

        Hello Dickhead!

        • PelouzeTF

          Hi Fuckwit !

  • PelouzeTF

    Excellent news….who’s next ;)

    • Apgsqsjh

      your mom ;)

      • sean connery

        im sure the FBI wouldnt want to touch that

    • guest

      The twin towers… oh wait.

    • Tali

      yes yes, and i’m sure if asked you’re a major artist and its your works and blah blah. Trolls will always be trolls. Proof thanks.

    • Tsunku

      you’re next…..

  • Uvusijko

    Team America, World Police!

    • PelouzeTF

      Why shouldn’t you be able to chase infringing websites that profit from your own countries IP, no matter where they are ?

      • dutchfag

        Because they abide the rules and are protected by the DMCA safe-harbour.

        • PelouzeTF

          but they don’t.

  • http://twitter.com/iamandrus Andrus Pappas

    This is sickening.

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  • Guest

    Wow… what the fuck is going on??

    What about the DCMA?

    I just didn’t think that this would be possible…

    The US is the government of the world…

    • PelouzeTF

      He doesn’t get DMCA protection if he’s violating it. Which he was.

      • Mr. Putin

        How is he? Send a valid DMCA takedown… your file is removed. Simples.

        • PelouzeTF

          Thats not all that the DMCA requires you to do. And they didn’t always do that.

          There is an FBI report which goes into more detail.

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          Peloser, yes, that is all the DMCA requires you to do if you are offering a filesharing website.

        • Anon

          Idiot. They never removed any file, just the URL. That’s why they were stripped off their safe harbor protection.

      • Guest

        “He doesn’t get DMCA protection if he’s violating it. Which he was.”

        I’d ask for proof, but we both know that you don’t have any.

        • PelouzeTF

          If you’d DMCA’d Megaupload as many times I have (and witnessed what has and hasn’t been done in accordance with the DMCA) , you’d know exactly why what has happened, happened.

        • Guest

          Proof fail.

        • Anonymous

          that is not proof, that is just more talking out of your ass

        • Guest

          Oh, so this asshole here, pelouze, is the enemy. Die in a fucking fire, you corporate stooge, slave to dying relics, hall-monitor. How do you like the cent of shit that’s permanently clinging to your nose.

        • PelouzeTF

          “Oh, so this asshole here, pelouze, is the enemy. Die in a fucking fire, you corporate stooge, slave to dying relics, hall-monitor. How do you like the cent of shit that’s permanently clinging to your nose. ”

          LOL

      • Guest

        No food for you mr trollz…

      • Anonymous

        First a DMCA violation would need to be proved in court. There has been none and you can hardly trust this fucking ICE/DHS/DoJ/RIAA cult.

        • PelouzeTF

          And you can trust Kim Schmitz ?…you guys are hilarious

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          No,you are the hilarious one for not wanting to move into the digital age, Peloser.

        • Guest

          It’s not a cult it’s a clan.

          A group of people united by common characteristics, aims, or interests = MONEY.

        • Anonymous

          Well how about “unholy bastard union”.

          I can tell you today I am mad when you can begin to wonder why businesses want to follow the law if something like this can happen? Right now TPB are looking rather nice due to them being untouchable.

          And to think I was foolish enough to believe we could all live happily under the law with some simple discussion and compromise.

  • TPB Free

    Fuck you U.S.!!!

    • Koope

      U.S Government.*

  • Broadband

    When did SOPA pass?

  • addddsssssss

    His name isn’t “Kim DotCom”.. Kimble aka Kim Schmitz. Just google it.

    • Lkljklasdf

      Shut Up retard

      “Kim Dotcom (yes that’s my real name)” from an article on TF from the man himself

    • Anonymous

      his name is Kim Dotcom
      just like it is David Walliams (and not Williams) or David Tennant (and not David McDonald) or Alice Cooper (and not Vincent Damon Furnier)

      you can change your name, you know

  • TelezarZ

    Last time there was a problem with Megaupload, it was with the “supposed” domain name problem. Now this…
    I hope they arent gone forever, but its very scary at the moment. ALL the websites of the Megaworld are offline !
    Fuck SOPA/PIPA !

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  • Anonymous

    Take a look at megaupload.org when it is quite revealing. I believe we have we seen that DoJ page before.

    Anyway as I doubt they touched the Hong Kong hosting then I expect new domains will link to them soon enough. Kim Dotcom is also not one to be bulled around and have a whole team of lawyers.

    I guess we have now heard Hollywood’s reply to the huge 8+ million people blackout protest yesterday.

    The War continues but let us not forget that all Cyberlockers who have been tested in US Court to date have been found to be lawful and Megaupload is a DMCA “safe harbour” company.

    They had better do a better job than DaJaz1.

    • Tsunku

      but when are they going to go after the racketeering the mpaa/riaa do? why is it they are allowed to perpetuate their extortion and protection rackets?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay

    So now, I can’t access my files on MU because they decided to take them off the internet. Do we need a better example of why censorship and prior restraint is unconstitutional?

    How tone deaf do you have to be to not take down a site when everyone is looking at you?

  • Mr Afghanistan

    NEVER BELIEVE USA – NEVER!!!!!!!!!!

    I AM SURE USA WILL LET DOWN ALL US CITIZENS AND PASS THE DAMN SOPA AND PIPA LAW FOR THE SAKE OF INDUSTRIES $$$$$$ !!!!!

    USA IS ALL ABOUT $, NEVER BEEN ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR RESPECT WHAT US CITIZENS WANT!!!!

    • PelouzeTF

      Freedom of speech has nothing to do with websites profiteering from IP.

      • None

        Oh, lets add and an amendment to the freedom of information act, we’ll call it SOPA, hell, lets make it two just to be on the sake side, and lets call that one PIPA.

        AH Sir, protests show that the American people do not want this, and they are getting support from all over the damn world.

        No problem, well just sent out the feds, ashow the world that we have power every where and not just in the US, chose somewhere nice, like New Zealand, that’ll teach them to protest.

  • Junior008

    So whats the point of SOPA again?

    • Guest

      Because without it the middlemen lose their jobs.
      There will be huge job losses in the USA if copyright is changed or unenforced…all from the the Studios. HAHAHA-HA-HAAAA!

    • Anonymous

      For the RIAA to force legitimate indie business back under the RIAA umbrella.

      All part of the restoration negotiations.

  • mustang

    Who the fuck do the American government think they’re? They just cant stop themselves from trying to control every little fucking thing on the planet. Nothing more than a set of war criminals and thieves every last one of them. Since when did the internet belong to those idiots? More breaking of international laws to help themselves.

  • WTF-NZ

    WTF!

    NZ is US’ bitch…this is fucked up!

    • Anonymous

      There could be long court cases before they could even export him. We have yet to see what his team of top lawyers can do.

      Then again he may take the first plane to the US and kick their ass.

  • Dream-DoG

    US are going mad and they are fucking every filehoster. Fuck US.

    and Now this is gonna be rapidshare or filesonic..

  • Ender Wiggin

    revolution time?

  • Guest

    Where’s anonymous when you need them – get it together guys and retaliate!!!!

  • Mcgf

    All kneel to our american overlords:)

    • Anonymous

      Good plan if you want to be anally raped.

  • Alyssa Blindy

    How in the world did that happen? When I used the site for small little things, I always saw the DMCA notice thingy. I hope they have DMCA’s saved, and they show them to the court, and they show that the items war taken down. This seems so strange. I sort of agree with those people who state that megabit probably killed them. I wonder what’s going to happen next. Oh actually, the megasong probably killed them. I don’t get this. Are we missing something? Did they not follow through with DMCA notices or something? Strange. Really strange. I honestly don’t know what to say about this, except for strange. Strange. Strange. Strange. Strange. *fading out. Strange. Strange.

    • Anonymous

      I am sure thousands of users could testify on their behalf. Not many of us file sharers could fail to notice all the DMCA take-downs they did.

      Currently I am waiting to see if Mega had any disaster day backup plan.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Thompson/100000479592552 Steven Thompson

        lol we are the back up plan use downloaders are hardrives we have to work toghter to keep filesharing alive we all have files the point of megaupload is to share them we can still share fuck the goverment!

    • DownWithSOPASponsors

      Do you really think these people care about due process?

      I knew this was going to happen the minute I saw that Megaupload song.

      Anyway, Dotcom was an idiot to expose himself like he did.

  • Indeed I am a walrus

    5 years for copyright infringement. And Dr Conrad Jones, who murdered MJ, got 4.

    What. The. Fucking. Actual. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You. America?

    • Rafsyd

      Dude, I’m American, and I wonder the same god damned thing. Our government is so far beyond the control of the citizenry its going to take a revolution to get shit back on track. And I don’t mean a “Let’s all camp in Central Park!” revolution. A real one.

      • Indeed I am a walrus

        Just realised that its Conrad Murray, not Jones, but the point’s still there. And yes, tbh there has to be some kind of mind-shittingly huge revolution in many places – USA and UK hit to mind immediately.

      • FredtheFaillord

        The “Land of the Free” to rape the citizenry. Woo.

      • Roberto

        I just expect that to happen worldwide. There’s nice people anywhere and wrong corporate politicians everywhere. This whole absurdity should collapse any day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kaostvlee Kaostv Lee
  • DoobyDoo

    R.I.P Megaupload

  • Blabble

    These charges won’t stick

  • Mwhahaha

    The money laundering thing is the most worrying thing there, if proved to be correct. Why were they doing that if everything was legit and above board?
    I feel there’s a long way to go on this, and as a community, we shouldn’t rush to judge someone innocent until we learn more of the facts. We hate politicians for doing that with their buddies. Let’s try and be objective and responsible.

    I hope their innocent and haven’t been stupid enough to get into something they shouldn’t have.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000576266883 Dustin Sanchez

      I agree. I don’t believe MegaUpload was acting illegally. Walking a tight rope? Yes. Illegal? No way. That said – I want to see the evidence. This is a big one so lets see what comes of it.

      • Anonymous

        while there was some copyrighted material on MU it was removed quite often (one of the reasons i stopped using it for that) but there was also large quantities of non-copyrighted material or material with permission from the owner.

        many software developers for example used it as mirror to save on their bandwidth

        MU should have the means and connections to effectively fight this, so as long as they actually get a fair trial the charges will not stick.

    • Guest

      People are innocent until proven guilty not the other way around

      • Orland

        in the accusatory procedure it the opposite actually. You are guilty until proven innoncent… that’s America for ya!

      • Xxx

        this was before NDAA

    • Guest

      “we shouldn’t rush to judge someone innocent until we learn more of the facts.”

      Was this a misprint or did you just forget one of the first rules of justice?

      • Ven

        We can consider them innocent until proven guilty, but what is happening on many posts are are people already having decided that, should Kim be found guilty, that the trial was rigged.

        Arriving at a conclusion before the evidence is in is illogical, but people are doing it anyway.

    • Anonymous

      Their money laundering claim is bullshit.

      First of all to be able to launder money it must somehow be illegitimate cash like stolen or made through illegal means. The subscription fees users pay is hardly dirty money.

      The second concept of laundering is to pass it through a process to turn this illegitimate money into legitimate money. Paying their rewards programme is hardly laundering.

      This is like one business paying another business for services rendered. A normal invoice and billing process that they happen to call “laundering”.

      Trust me when I say that their claims are all copyright related.

  • Fucksopa

    So they say swiz beats is the ceo, if he is why isnt his name one of those indicted…

  • Riaz

    Internet is no more a free place, Hijacked by United States.

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  • Philipsheldrake

    The Nazis never lost the war

    • Guest23

      this news sucks, but you went full retard.

  • Meh

    Wow? Only 500$ million? I bet it’s a typo and it should say 500$ trillion.

    • afrowolf

      You got that right. I thought the same thing. Why let reality spoil their fun?

    • Guest

      Well it may be possible that they’ve started to learn that stupidly absurd numbers tend to get them laughed at. One of my favorites was the judge in the limewire case, said something to the effect of “So, let me get this straight, the music industry is asking for potential penalties which would be more than the total sum ever earned by all studios since the dawn of recorded music. WTF?”

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  • anon

    FUCK WHITE PEOPLE

    • Mr. Putin

      I’m sure a lot of Megaupload supports are white – including myself.

      -_-

    • Whiteguy

      I concur

  • afrowolf

    What’s the endgame for these guys? To have us all in prison doing forced labour, then forced to buy CDs and pay to watch their movies in the prison theaters? Talk about not being able to accept change… If they have to destroy the internet to get their way, they are quite willing to do so.

  • Anonymous

    F@cking fascists. Anonymous and Lulzsec needs to respond to this with hacks on the US government.

    Hopefully Megaupload will be back. After all Rapidshare survived its shut down.

    • As

      server where sized so do not expect anytime soon to see megaupload online , this sound like long process , i think they will also go after elite uploader there , for megaupload to get back there need huge action of protest in usa , like those in tunisia , egypt etc , otherwise say good bye to megaupload at least for months

  • Justin Cline

    Holy shit…

    When will my fellow Americans stand up to our overreaching government? Our totalitarian democracy is out of control and needs to be stopped.

    For fucks sake, they’ll probably consider this post as terrorist activity and imprison me for life…

    • Anon

      No, the US government is beyond fixing. But what about the other governments theses people belong to? Why aren’t they protecting their citizens from the US tyranny?

      • Justin Cline

        Because America has policed the globe since WWII…

        Everyone is probably afraid we’ll nuke them, because you know, we’re the only jackass country that previously did that.

    • Guest

      Fellow American here, +1 agree. I’d give more but the banks stole all the rest of my internets.

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  • KiRE

    I fucking hate when they say “We lost revenue”. I had no intentions of buying the overpriced shit in the first place.

  • ubie

    so should i be worried if I downloaded something off of MU?

    • Anonymous

      doubtful, downloading is legal in most countries (as if that would stop them, but whatever)

      if they go after individual users it will be the uploaders first.

      • Orland

        if they were to go agains all the downloaders… do you think US has enough prisons to fit hum… the whole planet?

        • KingmanIII

          Sadly, anything that puts money in their cronies’ pockets, I wouldn’t put past this government…

    • Anonymous

      No.

  • http://twitter.com/ErestynOfficial Craig Moore

    This is absolutely ridiculous. This is exactly what the internet will look like under SOPA and I hope people finally start paying attention.

    • Guest

      No, this is what it looks like now, SOPA just adds more madness.

  • Anonymous

    the lengths the industries will go to just to carry on forcing artists to work for them and not earn anything as independents, is truly ridiculous! and as for NZ allowing US to arrest someone there, goes to show who is running that government, doesn’t it?

    • Lifeasart1

      A NZ Prime Minister let French assassins that blew up a ship in NZ and killed someone get off with a slap on the wrist instead of being locked up until they died. Murderers for pay that violated NZ sovereignty. They are all the same wherever they are – they all serve power and are people of low morality. They would literally sell their own grandmother if that was what it took.

  • http://twitter.com/ErestynOfficial Craig Moore

    @Ubie: No, you shouldn’t. I was a lifetime premium member – they’re going after the company, not the users.

    • ubie

      thanks for the reply. Hopefully you are right

      • Goatporn

        Technically they could come after you based on any records containing ip addresses they seize – in practice it’s extremely unlikely. We are talking many millions of users involved if they go after downloaders and most of the mass lawsuits in Bit torrent cases have failed. This will probably be a massive lawsuit lasting several years aimed at the company management and the uploaders who profited from the racket.

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  • Stevey

    What shocks me is the owners were arrested in New Zealand on behalf of America? Im wonder how New Zealanders feel about that.

    • Mykstaa

      new zealanders dont like it at all…. as well as the sopa and pipa bullshit.

  • http://profiles.google.com/pearljamamerica John Briggs

    He probably co-operated with them. Just a guess. Could be wrong.

  • http://profiles.google.com/pearljamamerica John Briggs

    He may have co-operated.

  • Anonymous

    Want to know why they did this? Megaupload CAN be used for distributing copyrighted content. It was user based, and website are not responsible for what their users post. The entertainment industry has been shutting down entire computer networks and website simply because they are capable of infringing copyrights. They have proven to us time and again that they are some of the most rotten people on earth. I beg all you to see them for what they are: evil greedy scumbags.

    • Guest

      Re: shutting down whole networks … because they are capable… Stupid thing there is it flies in the face of the Sony/Betamax case which in short expressly allowed technology even if it could be used for infringement if there was substantial non infringing uses. They’ll likely try to make this a case much like the limewire one, claiming that the owners promoted the service as being ‘FOR’ piracy. Now as far as I’ve seen that would be complete BS, but when has that ever stopped the gov from doing what they want?

    • Nekokittymew

      Holly mother fucking balls, where have I heard this before? Ya know, I’ve noticed something, all of a sudden, people in charge of big comapnies are JUST NOW realizing what people are doing bellow them. LOLLL 2012 D; OH GAWD.

  • Stickywicket
  • Anon

    This is why the world hates America.

  • Anonymous

    Goodness… Related to protests probably, trying to make people shake in their boots.

    • Anonymous

      They had better hope not. Interference in politics is banned under the InterPol charter.

  • Anonymous

    Please smart hackers attack and out all the dirty laundry that you can find from the RIAA.MPAA, and their stooges in Washington.
    The world is begging you to do this now !!! I would and I would be willing to do time again but I am not smart with Networking at all.

  • Anonymous

    What pisses me off about this so much is the amount of (legal free)indie content that just got rm’d. If I remember correctly, a lot of people who entered Ludum dare(Popular game jam) uploaded their games to megaupload, so all their games are now not available, just because of the fucking copyright MAFIAA.

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  • Anonymous

    i think it would be better to not judge someone as ‘guilty’ until the facts are out.

    i would have thought the charge of racketeering was more serious?

    you dont think that perhaps the charges were trumped up then, by maybe, the entertainment industries? perhaps those in high places in law enforcement need to repay the favors for getting the jobs they have?

    maybe the idea is simply to keep the sites shut down long enough to make it hard to put them back up as happened to Dajaz1. those charges were false, but it took a year to get them dismissed!

  • anon 1

    engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit money laundering.
    Sounds like the riaa and mpaa all over, accuse your enemies of doing what you are doing yourself.

  • maggots

    Leave US….if you want to keep Interwebs as it is, leave US or, any affiliated country right now!!

    Here we thought Asian countries were corrupted. A whole goddamn government is ruining the every prospect of keeping the free web so not free anymore. US citizens, be ashamed!

    • http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay

      We’ve been especially ashamed of Obama, trust me!

    • mabela2011

      I’m moving to scandinavia, it sounds so much safer. I hate living in America where we’re slowly turning into China and North Korea.

      • Guest

        Slowly!?

  • Martin R.

    Don’t worry people, SOPA will be EVEN WORSE
    Fuck off U.S.A. politicians, how the hell they sue someone in Asia, who isn’t even from their country, or do they make him go to jail, that’s just freakin’ abuse of power, fucking bullies!

  • Anonymous

    Never forget: the internet was built on the backbone of DARPAnet. It started as a project by, for, and with the US Department of Defense, to ensure communications across the continent in the event of nuclear war.

    Should the US government ever decide that the internet no longer serves its purposes … the “kill switch” deep in Cheyenne Mounter (or Langely, VA, or wherever) is thrown and — poof!

    It is gone.

    Don’t like it? Build your own. Enjoy the $3 Trillion outlay necessary for the fiber-optic cable installation & routers alone.

    • gulm0

      Why don’t you f*cking try that moron! The very first thing will crumble is the US economy! I hope some people like you are out there too.

      • Anonymous

        Calm down, dingbat. Never said that I would try that. (Or that I could – sheesh – talk about delusions of grandeur. I’m not frickin’ Dr. Evil/Blofeld/Agent Smith).

        I’m just saying that it is possible. http://io9.com/5746338/could-a-us-government-crackdown-take-america-off-the-internet

        Shutting down the rest of the world would be a bit more complex, but again … it could be done. And you better bet that this very move has been game-planned out, to deal with the consequences of an all-out cyber-war.

        Complaining at this late date about issues of control, when you have ignored the many, many steps that have led us to this juncture is akin to a pig squealing as it reaches the end of the tunnel and suddenly realizes the glint of the slaughtering knives. It’s a lot of noise that really doesn’t change the reality.

        • Gulm0

          It’s better to see that day than this bits of glimpses. Will see how US industries live, how Hollywood makes so much as they claimed as “lost”. The most interesting, I must say, entertaining thing will be the great vanishing of .com domains from the free web.

          The replacement? There will be plenty when it comes down to that scenario. If it doesn’t come to that stage people will probably never learn how to live without depending on others.

          WWIII won’t be too far away if US citizens keep on supporting these ventures by their government.

        • Anonymous

          the internet was specifically built so that it cannot be shutdown easily.

          even if the US decides it no longer needs the internet the rest of the world would quickly adapt and simply route around the US

        • Nekokittymew

          LOLLL dingbat…

          Fo realzs tho

          The internet may have stolen MONEY but not only has it STOLEN, it has given, so taking out the internet would be like punching the goverment in the peen. If they take out internet now, LOL oh man everyone would be EVEN MORE IN DEBT…

        • Cold War?

          Wasn’t the whole point of the internet to store information that wouldn’t be destroyed in the even of a nuclear war? What would be the point of having one central location that could ruin it all? Seems a bit counterproductive…

    • Justin Cline

      Not so fast…..ARPANET was merely the worlds first packet switching network. The internet as we know it is a network of networks meaning the internet is also not centralized, like a ARPANET style network was.

      The government can’t just turn it off.

    • Pbduvzoy

      Conspiracy much?

      • Anonymous

        Oh c’mon. My tinfoil hat is quite sparkly, and fits perfectly …

        Look – shutting down the web is not something that’s going to be done over a few pirated copies of Avatar. It’s a move that would only happen in response to full-on cyberwar (which my security industry friends say is pretty much the current state of affairs with the Chinese gov’t hackers constantly attacking any company that has valuable IP anyway, so the distinction is kinda blurry, really).

        Amazing how freaked-out angry kiddies get when they can’t get the free music/movies/videogames they feel they’re “entitled” to. Much more serious issues are getting lost in all the hyperventilating hereabouts.

    • Camillus O’Byrne

      Always remembering that the US DoD is just a criminal racket for extracting wealth from US taxpayers and redistributing it to the people that really matter. Also remembering that much US wealth has been extracted from the rest of the world by economic or physical violence – including the global “tax” of US inflation via the incredible privilege of being the global reserve currency. The wheel seems to be turning however, and the usefulness of the USG to those that own it may be numbered.

    • Al

      This is to those like – Noneofyourbusiness and guests who think America made everything. You really are very thick, ignorant, uncultured, self centred arseholes. Before making stupid arse comments about who made what and how great you believe you all are stop and think that your writing this on a computer so do a bit of research before making yourself look a dick.

      Charles Babbage (1837), a British professor of mathematics described his idea for the Analytical Engine, the first stored-program mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by a steam engine and was to use Punched Cards, which was used to program mechanical looms at the time.
      What made the Analytical Engine unique was that it was designed to be programmed.
      It was because of this and the fact that it would be more than 100 years that any similar devices would be constructed, Charles Babbage, would be considered by many as the “father of computing”. Because of legal, financial, and political obstacles, the Analytical Machine would never be completed. Charles Babbage was also difficult to work with and alienated the supporters of his work.

      Alan Turing (1912) London. His father was in the Indian Civil Service and Turing’s parents lived in India until his father’s retirement in 1926. Turing and his brother stayed with friends and relatives in England. Turing studied mathematics at Cambridge University, and subsequently taught there, working in the burgeoning world of quantum mechanics. It was at Cambridge that he developed the proof which states that automatic computation cannot solve all mathematical problems. This concept, also known as the Turing machine, is considered the basis for the modern theory of computation.
      In 1936, Turing went to Princeton University in America, returning to England in 1938. He began to work secretly part-time for the British cryptanalytic department, the Government Code and Cypher School. On the outbreak of war he took up full-time work at its headquarters, Bletchley Park.
      Here he played a vital role in deciphering the messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine, which provided vital intelligence for the Allies. He took the lead in a team that designed a machine known as a bombe that successfully decoded German messages. He became a well-known and rather eccentric figure at Bletchley.
      After the war, Turing turned his thoughts to the development of a machine that would logically process information. He worked first for the National Physical Laboratory (1945-1948). His plans were dismissed by his colleagues and the lab lost out on being the first to design a digital computer. It is thought that Turing’s blueprint would have secured them the honour, as his machine was capable of computation speeds higher than the others. In 1949, he went to Manchester University where he directed the computing laboratory and developed a body of work that helped to form the basis for the field of artificial intelligence. In 1951 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

      Alexander Graham Bell(1847) was a Scottish born – American scientist/inventor and educated in london was most famous for his pioneering work on the development of the telephone.

      Tim Berners Lee (1955 – london) – 20th century inventor of the World Wide Web

      John Baird (1888) – Mechanical Television System

      Thomas Savery – in 1698 patented the first crude steam engine

      Sir Alexander Fleming(1881) born in Scotland, died in London – Penicillin

      Humphry Davy (1809) an English chemist, invented the first electric light. Davy connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip betwween the other ends of the wires. The charged carbon glowed making the first arc lamp. (Bet every American is convinced it was Alexander Graham Bell, silly Americans)
      Sir Joseph Swan of Newcastle announced that he had made a working light bulb on 18 December 1878 and on 18 January 1879 he gave a public demonstration in Sunderland – 10 months before Edison

      Michael Faraday (1791-1867) British physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.

      Edwin Beard Budding (1830) was an engineer from Stroud, Gloucestershire, England- The first lawnmower

      Radio – David Edward Hughes, (D.E.Hughes), of Corwen (Denbighshire) – is recorded as the Welshman who became the first person in the world to transmit and receive radio waves. Evans, resident of North Wales, designed the synchronous type-printing telegraph in 1856. Yet another British first.

      Percy Shaw, from Yorkshire, England (1933) CAT’S EYE ROAD REFLECTOR

      William Caxton (1422-1491) was an English businessman who set up England’s first printing press in 1476

      Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892 in Scotland) First practical radar system, He developed radar to help track storms in order to keep aircraft safe. His invention eventually helped the allies win World War 2 against the Germans

      REFRIGERATOR
      The first method of refrigeration (cooling air by the evaporation of liquids in a vacuum) was invented in 1748 by William Cullen of the University of Glasgow, Scotland; Cullen did not apply his discovery to any practical purposes. Michael Farady, an English physicist liquefied ammonia to cause cooling (in the 1800′s). Faraday’s idea would eventually lead to the development of compressors, which compress gas to liquid form

      Also you might of heard of – Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare, Sir Isaac Newton, Captain James Cook, Professor Stephen Hawking, John Harrison
      (An English clock designer, who developed and built the world’s first successful maritime clock), Charles Dickens,Sir Frank Whittle, William Bourne – Submarine, Thomas Wedgewood -Photography.

      The list really could go on all night but i feel i have spent long enough proving a point.
      Please forward this to all your American friends to let them know there is a life outside the U.S and they didnt create it, well apart from this financial mess thats going on.

  • Herp

    It happened again… it happens always oftener…
    soon…. i dont even want to think about that….

  • Ughhhhh

    whats next, soon no youtube or anything.
    SOPA and PIPA will only make this easier for them,
    they are flexing their muscle that they dont even need those bills.
    =(

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  • Caveman

    holy shit! this is NOT good news :(

  • Groofy

    There goes the democracy, what ever happend with most votes count.
    This shows Money Talks.

  • Lol

    Hey New Zealand, hope you’re proud, you just got added to the list of America’s bitches. Join the party with Britain, Canada, and all the others.

    All prostitute analogies aside, I can’t believe all these countries keep just handing people over when the US asks them to. From what I’ve heard, at least in the Netherlands they don’t do this, but that’s the only one I’ve heard that doesn’t.

    • Anonymous

      So so glad i emmigrated to a normal country.

  • DukeKataron

    Really? They had to arrest the graphics designer? Really?

    • noko

      His job was taking away potential American graphic designing jobs!

      • Groofy

        He got his copy of photoshop from thepiratebay.org

  • Sticketwicket10101

    LOL

    DOJ website just crashed

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000576266883 Dustin Sanchez

    LISTEN EVERYONE:

    I am reading the Indictment right now and paragraphs 20-24 strongly imply that MegaUpload was running afoul of the DMCA provisions. Even more evidence supports that in the following paragraphs 25-30. If this is true then this is LEGITIMATE.

  • Jack

    If this keeps going, piracy will evolve into a new level. I wonder what will it be…

  • FUCKYOUAMERICANTERRORRISTS

    USA the biggest terrorist nation in the world, time to give those assholes some sanctions of their own!!! fucking americunt terrorists!!!

  • still kicking

    Some of you aren’t going to like what I have to say. So be it. Virtually every last top executive of the media companies are Jewish and most of them hard core supporters of Israel. The same with the major Wall Street firms that created the world wide financial breakdown. In the PC world everyone is equal. In reality people and, more importantly, cultures are often quite different in what they emphasize and how they approach things such as business models.

    For historical reasons Jews do not tend to invest for the long term future and are dead set against sharing except amongst themselves. The fact that the media content providers have been pushing a dead platform is obvious to everyone except those making the money off of it. They are blinded by their greed and inability to understand that giving a little can result in higher returns. It is just not part of their culture where too often in the past they were forced to uproot and take what they could carry.

    Like I said, I’m sorry if all this pisses some of you off. However, in a world increasingly interconnected the roles played by some groups/countries are affecting everyone whether they be file sharers, investors, the formerly employed, or just those who have the misfortune to live around others who seek to steal every last thing they can from them. Before you criticize me make darn sure you have you facts straight, especially regarding the ownership/control of the media providers and huge financial firms, their ties with each other and inordinate influence over the US Congress.

    • Anonymous

      You are a disillusioned Nazist loser.

    • ayler82

      This is stupid: “They are blinded by their greed and inability to understand that giving a little can result in higher returns. It is just not part of their culture where too often in the past they were forced to uproot and take what they could carry.” This has nothing to do with any religious/ethnic/cultural group. This is just how capitalism works. People who have wealth have influence over the state and they use that influence to get more wealth, and they don’t care about about anything other than increasing their profit. Marx: “The bourgeoisie, at its rise, wants and uses the power of the state to ‘regulate’ wages, i.e., to force them within the limits suitable for surplus-value making [capitalist profit], to lengthen the working-day and to keep the labourer himself in the normal degree of dependence.”
      http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch28.htm
      http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch27.htm
      In the 1500′s-1600′s, the emerging capitalist elite used the state to confiscate all of the agricultural land held in common in Europe. Now the RIAA/MPAA use the state to confiscate the internet commons. This is an old story.

    • Guest

      Yes, instead of speaking out against the hijacking of the government by wealthy special interests thanks to a system of institutionalized bribery, let’s just chase some Jews with a stick instead.

      That’ll fix everything.

    • Anonymous

      Assholes will be assholes, doesn’t matter if they happen to be jewish.

      keep your nazi shit to yourself

    • Guest

      Can we flag this racist shit to be removed please? TYVM.

  • Mr. Putin

    ANONYMOUS HAS STRUCK!!!
    https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews

    universalmusic.com & justice.gov DDoS’d
    more sites coming down as we speak <3

    • Some_Guy

      Yeh mate!! Bring it on :-)

      Go Anonymous

      • Mr. Putin

        Haha, RPAA/MPAA’s websites are down.

        Awaiting MPAA’s troll tweets to come rolling in ;)

    • Pete

      DDoS’ing will achieve stuff all. Get dirt on the parasites in the RIAA and MPAA. Let the world know everything about the scumbags. What time they shit, eat, sleep. EVERYTHING!

  • YES USA DOES SUCK ASS

    Don’t hate USA, they will collapse VERY VERY SOON HAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

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  • Guest

    “Mega has nothing to fear. Our business is legitimate and protected by the DMCA and similar laws around the world. ”

    Hah, that’s naive. The gangsters running the copyright industry their sockpuppets in Washington don’t give two shits about legality.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=554203929 Kyle Ray Spier

    So a website announces they plan to set up a way for artists to ditch the record labels and market their music directly. Music labels response, “HES HOSTING COPYRIGHTED CONTENT, ARREST HIM”.

    Enjoy it while it last riaa/UMG/BMG/sony/etc, you are not longed for this world. Just like how writers are able to sell their books on amazon without a publisher, market it on amazon without a publisher, all without the needs of the publisher. You soon will be a relic of the past. Shoved aside by spotify, itunes, and artists who upload their own music to bittorrent (like Nine inch nails, and RadioHead already do.).

    The consumer base evolves, the elderly die, the newborns get money, and as such is the way of the market as well, the old business models die, the new one come about, ready and able to fit its respected newborn market.

    It’s just a shame, businesses don’t have to die. Just their models, but go ahead; Stick to your proven methods, “What works”, your “Safe zones” so to speak. No need to be dynamic in a fluid world. We wont reroute around your ageing business model. At least, keep telling yourself that.

  • None

    Oh, lets add and an amendment to the freedom of information act, we’ll call it SOPA, hell, lets make it two just to be on the sake side, and lets call that one PIPA.

    AH Sir, protests show that the American people do not want this, and they are getting support from all over the damn world.

    No problem, well just sent out the feds, ashow the world that we have power every where and not just in the US, chose somewhere nice, like New Zealand, that’ll teach them to protest.

  • Volt

    What a stupid country, Bush is gone but the government hasn’t got any more cleverer. If they continue like this then all “foreign” sites will just simply ban American IPs from accessing them.

    • None

      Bush was a Pawn,America has always been like this.

    • WinderpMC

      Wow you’re so smart. That would obviously fix things right?

  • Jacky

    Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music
    http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

  • Weihhih

    anons took justice.gov and universalmusic.com sites down ?

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  • pissed american

    the American government. to control the world. much like the Nazi did under Hitler control!

    • Pete

      Nothing like it. Nazi Germany cared about it’s citizens. US Government, cares only about it’s Corporations. Citizens can rot in hell as far as it’s concerned.

      • No

        lol, no. Nazi Germany cared about their blond, obedient citizens and killed the rest.

  • http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay

    What’s up with his douche-y license plate tags? “Mafia”? “Stoned?” “V” (for Vendetta?).

    • Zzz

      Because the owner is a douche? Good for him, at least will be able to afford (I will not believe that they have managed to seize all of his assets) legal fees. That guy always had a sort of an douchy attitude. Too bad for MU/MV, I’ve liked these websites, and even used MU to send completely legitimate packs of files to my family… Well, I’ll have to introduce them to Dropbox or something.

      • http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-4-new-skins-themes-launches/740147-neurotech-hd.html#post5637502 Jay

        Yeah, it’s definitely too bad. Megaupload is simply giving the public a service that we demand. I hope my Mediafire doesn’t go down the same way.

  • Anonymous

    Dutch site webwereld.nl reports that, the owner, Kasseem Dean, American rapper and DJ (and Alicia Key’s boyfriend) is not arrested, while the people under him were. How’s that?

  • Stickeywicket10101

    Anonymous Takes Down DOJ Website

    http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/19/anonymous-takes-down-doj-website-in-response-to-megaupload-case/

    Or maybe DOJ is protesting SOPA/PIPA a day late?

    • Anonymous

      No Anonymous blew it up.

      Their main targets are justice.gov, riaa.com and mpaa.com.

      They have however been shooting at many other targets in a take them down and move on to the next target format. It does not help much to take a site down for a few minutes except to score points in a we done that.

      It does worry me when they target fbi.gov though, when we know they do fight back, so I hope Anon newbies do remember to delete all evidence afterwards and play deny all.

  • no name

    ggs whore myself doing it. fucking the U.S. government!

  • Thefrench

    who controlls the studios controlls the fbi the white fucking house..the fucking federal reserve.the army..the cia..the same fucking elite that’s trying to rule the world through america..fuck them.IF OUR GOUVERMENT BEND TO THE US WE WILL NOT..WE WILL RESSIST.WE WILL STAND UNITED AGAINST USA.WE MIGHT EVEN JOIN THE ANTI USA FRONT.THAT’S FRONT IS GETTING BIGGER BY EVERY SECOND..beware THE WRATH OF THE PEOPLE..

  • Derpface

    Why the fuck would they arrest the fucking graphics designer? |:
    That is as retarded as arresting janitor who works at datacenter that had megaupload servers in it.

    • WTF-NZ

      Yep…More like “Dafuq” they do that for?! insane

  • Aaaaa

    BREAKING NEWS
    After a Department of Justice-executed raid today on the file sharing site Megaupload, hackers aligned with the online collective Anonymous have shut down the websites for both the DoJ and Universal Music Group, the largest record company in America.

    Both universalmusic.com and justice.gov went down on Thursday afternoon, less than hours after it was revealed that Megaupload had been brought down by federal authorities and four people linked to the site, all outside of America, were arrested and charged with a conspiracy related to copyright infringement.

  • Anonymous

    STOP SOPA & PIPA. SAVE THE NET. FIGHT BACK! ????????????????
    ????????????????
    ????????????????
    ????????????????
    ????????????????

  • Fantastic

    And so this will confirm peoples fears about what SOPA and PIPA will do without their needed passing. As the name says…Fantastic.

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  • Alvenon

    WHAT THE F**K IS THIS MOTHERF**KING CRAP ???!!!! I’m spending weeks and weeks, analysing the Protect IP Act, trying to ensure that it is properly assessed, hell, I’m engaging in a discourse that is supposed to be aimed at creating effective and balanced copyright legislation, and this is what they do ?! Simply block Megaupload, without the use of any accepted legislative procedure ?! Block it 5 days before the Protect IP Act goes to the vote in the Senate ?! Oh yes, why the f**k bother with voting on it, the procedure employed by the Act could actually result in Megaupload remaining online !

    For hell’s sake, I always tried to maintain a balanced view, respecting both copyright owners and public interest. But right now, the US gov really stepped over the online community. They stepped over all those people who presented well developed arguments against SOPA/PIPA. They really stepped over those who were trying to convince people in the Net that copyright holders’ rights should also be respected.

    You see, regardless of any judicial safeguards, any legislative measure aimed at online piracy which involves access-restriction measures must be based on one crucial ingredient: trust. Trust that the government is not going to misuse this kind of power. This trust has to be grounded in evidence, that the government is worthy of our trust. As we can see, they are not.

    Concluding. To hell with site-blocking provisions of SOPA. To hell with site-blocking provisions of Protect IP Act. TO HELL WITH ANY FUTURE SITE-BLOCKING COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION.

    Something more was lost today.

    • Fantastic

      Yep their chance to backpedal out of this is now gone and its now a full on assault mainly because this is the action they claimed they were unable to do without the passing of SOPA/PIPA or similar. These be scary times.

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous/Megaupload backlash update: RIAA is now Tango Down

  • As

    We need full blackout , until mpaa and riaa take their fucking hand off internet and restore megaupload , otherwise it is the start of the end ,

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  • Anonymous

    Quick bit, did Kim Dotcom have his own criminal history?

    Looks like he did. Insider trading and fraudulent claims.

    Well guess it takes a criminal mind to really run a business.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay

      Yes, and he talked about that at length.

      He was a kid, he made a website that got popular, and now ICE is out to get him.

  • Anonymous

    Yet another report of a Tango Down:MPAA ORG taken offline by #Anonymous in response to #Megaupload seizure

  • Lemut

    this is just horrible

  • Guest

    Makes me sad to be a New Zealander

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  • Boltie

    Do they not realise many sites depend on that service for legitimate reasons (game mods, phone roms, you name it). Now they have to go and change many links, costing time, money and reputation. This act affects many millions. How did we only just hear about this???

    No court case? They have been running for a long time now. Why the rush?

    • Anonymous

      Why the rush? SOPA and PIPA were defeated and the MPAA/RIAA want blood.

  • Alvin

    Why is the Graphic Designer charged as well? he got nothing to do with it?

    • Fantastic

      While I may be wrong on this I think a racketeering/conspiracy charge needs a base number of people to actually make it “legitimate”. So that might be the reason.

      • http://twitter.com/akuma_river Brandelyn

        By attaching conspiracy they make it to where they can arrest anyone who worked for the company. It’s the RIOT Act used to go after the mafia. The real mafia not the MAFIAA.

  • Woah

    UGH. That’s all I have to say about this.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=579955973 Russell Gillett
  • http://www.facebook.com/signore.mp Signore Mp

    I am German. First they take Grooveshark away from me and now they take Megaupload away from me. Reading that a bunch of people were German it is weird for me to see New Zealand police is allowed to ARREST THEM because the USA tells NZ to do so.

    USA: Hey NZ, jump
    NZ: yes masters

    This is OUR Internet and they way it looks like now (with PIPA and SOPA) it’s going downhill because of awful governments. They are OUR governments. You know we always used to blame China or North Korea but I don’t see a difference anymore. Any government should stay the f’ck out of our internet.

    In 20 years we will say “remember the days when the Internet used to be cool?”

    • Goradn

      Dude, that’s exactly what I’m saying right now.

  • Asd

    Nuke the world and start all over again.

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  • Guest

    I have a sense that the license plate numbers “MAFIA”, “GUILTY”, and “STONED” won’t play out too well in court.

  • Anonymous

    Can I assume my icefilms plug-in is now defunct?

  • http://www.francky.me Franck Dernoncourt

    99.9% of politicians don’t know a sh*t about computer science… no wonder why we got SOPA, Hadopi, PIPA & all that crap.

  • foff

    Fuck this makes me worried about the rest of the cyberlockers going down. It seems sharing is going to have to go back under ground through things like irc and forums. Based on this the days of cyberlockers are numbered. If I ran one I would be worried because Megaupload did nothing different from the rest.

    The other thing that is worrisom is the fact that the federal government has something like a 98% conviction which means if you are charged with a federal crime your guilt is assured. Federal courts are not about innocence but about how guilty you are.

    • Anonymous

      ICE has so far been their own worse enemy. Sometimes I wonder if they are on our side due to their huge failures. I mean DaJaz1 was perfect timing to highlight a big flaw in SOPA/PIPA.

      Now if they go and mess this one up they could destroy the whole IP protection concept. From what I have seen so far this smells like bullshit.

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  • Postmaster

    #opMegaUpload
    #OpMEGAPAYBACK

    justice.gov => down
    riaa.org => down
    mpaa.org => down

    FTP

    • Anonymous

      Yes all three sites are down. I have not seen a successful DDOS to this level before.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais

      what’s that supposed to do? those sites are just brochures

      • Anonymous

        Political activism. It generates news.

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  • Righto

    The root servers are all hosted in the US. So they can take it down if they want to. Unless there are backups that are hosted elsewhere.

  • jack murdock

    This is pretty fucking shocking I’ll definitely admit. Safe to say that I never saw this coming.

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  • Sticketwicket10101

    All the charges against the “MEGA” Defendants depend on one simple linchpin. “Did they knowingly ignore properly formatted DMCA takedown notices?” A properly formatted DMCA Notice will adhere to the guidelines and principals established by the DMCA itself.

    The “money laundering” charges are significant because it requires that the MEGA defendants knowingly ignored properly formatted DMCA takedown notices so as to promote their users “reward” program for uploads and thus enriched themselves under the guise of legitimate commerce.

    A lot of money was generated as a result of file traffic. I am sure much was legitimate. But if the FED can prove that MEGA intentionally ignored DMCA (and enriched themselves in the process) then these guys may well be toast.

    I am against PIPA/SOPA.
    But DMCA is here to stay.

    • Ven

      Assuming that the prosecution has access to 5 years worth of company emails, I would think they will find enough incriminating evidence to get something to stick.

      Mostly because 5 years of email history is generally enough to get anyone convicted of something.

  • Hotmaillulwut

    Money laundering? Wait what? Fucking idiots cops from Virgina, I can’t access the mods I uploaded on my account.

  • Horst

    Kimble has probably already been taken to Guantanamo and will never see a fair trial.

    The US gov is frigthening me: Don’t like a site? Just bust it.

    Some Germans have been caught. I’m curious to see if we have allied with the US. If not in the war against Iraq, then at least in the war against MU :(

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  • Elpetakas

    ¡El mundo entero odiará América después de esto! Ateneos a las consecuencias

  • Cpbotsmaker

    LOL FBI GONNA GIVE MY MONEY BACK FROM MEGAUPLOAD PREMIUM ACCOUNT!

  • Samester

    mother i’m totally uin shock

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  • senhorBlanco

    What’s the point in worrying about SOPA and PIPA, if the US is able to shutdown services like MegaUpload in such a fashion…

    Does the US even need SOPA and PIPA to “combat piracy” ?

    This is disheartening :(

    • Ven

      The worry is that copyright holders will be able to do this without needing the Feds to help at all.

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  • Anonymous

    I vote never buying music or movies again! Whose with me?!

    • Lqheirez

      ya +1

      on the other hand it’s not as if the majority of the readers here buys all the time,
      they’re reviewing (including me), and since most of the stuff reviewed are crap…

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  • critical_pain

    This feeling, hurts my chest.. is this pure hate?

  • Ab

    unbelievable, just unbelievable. The world police has struck again and shown that all our governments do not have the ball to say GTFO of our justice system.

    I’m paralyzed by so much obidience just becaus it’s a big country. it’s just unbelievable.

  • Kat

    F*ck the rest of the bullsh*t, all I want to know is am I going to be able to get my files back? Ever. Because if the reigning opinion is no, I’m going to try to remember what I have and go about re-downloading the stuff that is super important.

    Luckily, the majority of my stuff is at mediafire, but I’m now afraid I need to get that off of there into my own little hard-drive hands with a quickness, What do you think???

  • Anonymous

    I wonder why they bothered getting warrants?

  • Anonymous

    1984. It’s happening right now. Fight back people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Thompson/100000479592552 Steven Thompson

    that so stupid the movie companys didnt lose anything if people had to illeaglly download it chances are they werent or didnt have the money to go see it in the first place so in my opion if the people who download were never going to pay in the first place were did the movie companys lose money?

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      Right in one. 99.999999% of those ‘illegal’ (not really, most people are paying for cable TV or something else that includes TV shows, movies, etc.) downloads are done by people who don’t want enough money to buy the legitimate things in question anyway.

      Add to this that there is a human right to partake in culture and you see another problem here.

  • Dennj

    entertainment companies give the US government big$$$ for just this reason

  • 1337 H@X0R

    and nothing of value was lost ………
    and the wheel in the hamster cage keeps on turning ……
    http://www.multiupload.com/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais

    Whoa! Now that Megaupload has been shut down, suddenly a whole bunch of money just appeared in my pocket! I know just what I’m going to do! I’ll run out and spend it on movies, music, books and software! Also, look behind me! Monkeys are flying out of my butt!

  • Doncollins100

    Time to start occupying movie theaters to stop Hollywood. The new meme: Occupy Hollywood.

  • RIAASUCK

    Anonymous is going to be PISSED!.

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  • Onk121

    Why are they so hell bent on this Piracy crap? Just go out deal with REAL criminals

    • Guest

      But they don’t want to arrest themselves.

  • StevO

    All your internets are belong to U.S.!

  • FredtheFailLord

    Possibly the best possible moment to say…
    FUCK THE POLICE

  • User

    MegaUpload will be back. Just like RapidShare, Demonoid, The Pirate Bay, and others. The US has no real credibility on the world stage anymore. The site will be back up, and doing business again before you know it. SOPA and PIPA will both fail. I have a feeling that there will be a lot of DDoS attacks going out over the next several days. I am honestly VERY surprised that the New Zealand government officials actually agreed to arrest these people. I have a feeling that the whole indictment will get thrown out promptly. These actions are the death throes of the United States. They are slowly being undone from every side. They are crumbling from the inside and being slowly eroded from the outside. They are trying to regain their grip on something that was never theirs to begin with. Guess what’s going to happen to their GDP if they decide to pass these pieces of legislation. People are going to move to sites that cannot be controlled by the United States. Let me tell you something, Yandex and Rambler are very good search engines too, but they are outside the grip of the dying Eagle. RuTube doesn’t remove videos if they contain copyrighted material. If the US decides to cripple the big earning sites that are located within it’s boarders then others will jump in to fill the void, ones who are beyond their reach. It’s almost comedic to think that they don’t have the foresight to realize that what they are doing will only push people further away from doing business with them, and make them look even worse in the eyes of the international community. Here’s to you America: A country who has gone from nothing to “The Greatest Country On The Face Of The Earth” to the country everyone thinks of as simultaneously the biggest bully and the biggest joke over the course of 100 years. Kudos America, one day in the far future the dumb@sses of the world will get together and build a monument to you.

    • Anonymous

      Sounds like the NZ police should feel the wrath of Anonymous for selling out.

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  • Fantastic

    Thinking about that insane comment that the MPAA head(rectum) made yesterday they likely did this because they believed that people like Kim Dotcom were pulling the strings in organize the protests. Because they (MPAA/RIAA)work on paying people to push things for them and buying”statistics” that support their side then obviously to them people like Kim Dotcom must be bankrolling the opposition. So taking his organization out should cripple the opposition to their legislation in their mind…won’t they be in for a surprise. Fight on and fight hard and we shall win the day.

  • http://www.youtube.com/clashofmyassinyamind YourMOMisMyWHORE

    damn this fat willy earns do’s with megaupload!!! give me some of that illigal money fat willy haha!

  • pdclinks

    Look at what Utah Chiefs of Police are thinking:
    http://www.utahchiefs.org/

    • Anonymous

      LOL. They got hacked.

      This reminds me that during Anonymous’s actions earlier they managed to rip out a database from somewhere. I know no more.

  • Mc

    “The MegaUpload site itself had no search function to discover content directly, but according to the indictment this was done to “conceal the scope of its infringement.” ”

    I thought having no search box was a defense against accusations if infringment?

    • Fantastic

      If they had a search function then they would copypaste the word “aiding” in place of conceal. Didn’t Disney already try this and lost because the DMCA notices were found to be sufficiently replied to?

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  • James

    So, am i right to assume you can get arrested in any country by breaking American laws? So, if I smoke marijuana in Amsterdam, they can arrest me? Even if i’m not American?

    • Realist

      Not at all. MegaUpload was convicted because it was breaking American copyright laws, with servers based in the United States. It was completely within their jurisdiction.

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  • rejco

    7 Billion People want to know why WAR CRIMINALS George Bush & Dick Chaney are not SHUT-DOWN & ARRESTED…

  • Realist

    I think there are some people on this website that need to really understand MegaUpload was by no means innocent in this equation. There is a 99.99% chance MegaUpload owners knew about the pirated material being uploaded daily on their website. A pawn-shop is not inherently illegal, but a pawn-shop that serves as a hub for illegal merchandise certainly is, regardless of whether or not the owners would prefer otherwise.

    It’s a little disturbing that most people here are so surprised one of the most prolific places to obtain stolen media is being shut-down. Even if Mega-Upload didn’t directly download illegally acquired media, it didn’t do enough to prevent it from happening.

    If the Feds check out some of the most hit MegaUpload files, who in here believes they’ll be 100% legitimate? Nobody does. Because they aren’t. If you can’t run a business without it being totally legal, shut it down. End of story. This is the real world, and companies that can’t function legally don’t have a place, no matter how much you wish they did. Sorry to be blunt.

    • Kevin

      Problem is, it’s illegal in America, and if I do it in my own Sovereign Country where it is legal, America should just shut the fuck up and back OFF! I swear, sometimes I really am starting to like the Islamic terrorists views on the U.S.

      • Realist

        But it was done in America. The whole reason they COULD be arrested is because they have servers set up in Virginia, on American soil.

        • Me

          You whole logic is wrong , America is at this time trying to extradite a british guy for piracy even though he has never been to America or never had American based server.. and he is not the first ….you sound like a government lacky sheep buddy , go troll somewhere else

          Quote from just 1 of the sources..look it up government sheepie

          A judge ruled on Friday that a 23-year-old student can be extradited to the United States for running a website posting links to pirated TV shows and films, despite significant doubts over whether such sites break any UK laws.

          The ruling threw Britain’s contentious extradition treaty with the US, which critics allege is greatly biased against UK nationals fighting their removal to America, under further scrutiny. It came just hours after a businessman from Kent lost an appeal against the decision that he should be sent for trial in Texas for allegedly plotting to send missile components to Iran.

          Richard O’Dwyer, a computing student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces a potential 10-year term in a US jail despite never having been to America or using web servers based in the country. When still a teenager O’Dwyer set up a website, TVShack, which posted links to pirated material. It did not directly host any files, which meant, according to the student’s lawyers, that it acted as little more than a Google-type search engine and did not breach copyright.

      • Realist

        And also, no one is coming to arrest you because you uploaded or downloaded anything. I’m not sure where you got that idea from…

    • Thedawg

      screw that realist

      • Realist

        It sucks for us, but that’s because we’re losing something that was never really ours to begin with. If you take away the illegitimate file sharing you take away the real appeal of MegaUpload. If they find a way to screen files that are uploaded, or if there is some sort of system put in place that sweeps irregularities, there would be nothing wrong, But as long as a website can’t keep people from illegally uploading and downloading information, it shouldn’t exist. Period.

    • HollywoodAnna

      Ah the old 99.99% statistic. Obvious made-up statistic is obvious.

  • rejco

    The DIRTY HOLLYWOOD JEWS at it again; Mel Gibson was RIGHT!

    • Kevin

      He was, but look what happens when you dare to say anything bad about Jews.

  • Seederman

    Rats. Megaupload was the second-best locker for downloads, behind Mediafire. Short or no waiting time between downloads. (Mediafire wins because they allow free simultaneous downloads)

    Glad I went on a download binge over the past year, which I did as a presumptive strike, assuming the gravy train would end. We may see a domino-effect on lockers in the months ahead…

    Unfortunately, my downloading was actually helping copyright holders, on a micro scale. It resulted in not only my buying some work I would never have ever even heard otherwise, it also resulted in my publicizing many little-known, or long-out-of-print artists to others, which also resulted in a few sales that otherwise never would have happened.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/john.gaspardo John Gaspardo

    So this is just great the long dick of the law has lived to rape again. This time all the way across the world. Sure hope they don’t take away all our rights too. Oh wait they already did that. Guess I’ll just have to wait at my door with a shotgun for the thought police. Shit they are already smashing down door. Must post before taken awa

  • MrHypocrite

    Let’s see – they make 10s of millions of dollars so user’s can steal from “those greedy corporations” — hmmm.

    • Realist

      Exactly right. If you’re defending MegaUpload subjectively, they’re doing the same thing all other greedy companies are doing.

      If you’re defending them objectively, then you have no leg to stand on. A lot of what went on in the site was illegal and they didn’t stop it.

  • Realist

    And just to clarify, because there are a lot of people claiming the U.S. had no right to enter other countries for the arrests, MegaUpload had servers set up in Virginia, on American soil. The U.S. is absolutely within international rights to pursue them, as any other country would be. The reason other countries haven’t, is because America is the main source of the copyright infringements being broken.

    I can guarantee you, if an American citizen set up servers in England, or New Zealand, or wherever, and then siphoned $500 million out the economy, he would be snapped up no matter where he was. Stop trying to make it seem like this is an issue of the U.S. over-stepping international rights. It’s not.

    • FuckAmericans

      Fuck american bastards.
      Fuck you.

      • Realist

        LOL. Ignorant hate at it’s finest. I bet if an American robbed your country blind and they hopped ship to somewhere else you wouldn’t make a peep right? As Riley says- “You ain’t no snitch”?

      • http://twitter.com/akuma_river Brandelyn

        It’s the DOJ you should hate. Not us. We got screwed too.

        • Gulm0

          Not hating you! But you must consider that people amongst you has voted for those chimps who are doing such psycho acts!

    • Anonymous

      “siphoned $500 million out the economy”

      Yes because pirates would have bought everything if they couldn’t use 1 out of the thousands of filesharing sites right?

      So clearly that means they lost money on ever download right? Its just math guys, we have to believe him

      • Realist

        So if I go to the store and steal a TV I wasn’t going to buy if I didn’t have the funds, then I’m not taking money away from that establishment? And what if I gave that TV to a friend and the police caught me? Guess I don’t have to pay for it since no one was going to buy it anyway.

        What utterly ridiculous logic.

        • Anonymous

          Sorry mate but your comparison is retarded.

          A stolen download doesn’t mean a lost purchase.

          A stolen tv does mean a lost purchase.

          Get your head out of your ass before you try to sound smart.

      • Realist

        I’m really trying to understand your argument. Are you trying to say that it’s okay to illegally download media because the downloader wouldn’t have bought it anyway?

        Everything bought or sold has monetary value, whether you like it or not. That’s how capitalism works. A song has value, as does a movie, as does a couch. If you download a song worth 99 cents, that is no different than stealing 99 cents.

        If the sum total of 500 million dollars worth of media was downloaded, then 500 million dollars worth of media was stolen, regardless of any idiotic argument you may think of.

        • HollywoodAnna

          Strawman argument, it’s been used so many times as to be frankly embarrassing to watch you espouse it.

    • Tali

      I’d like definite proof of the EXACT $500 million thanks. With a breakdown of what people didn’t buy what film.

      • Realist

        So if I steal $10 worth of gum from a store, I’m not stealing the equivalent of $10 right? Jesus Christ. You people are thick.

        • Anonymous

          You’re the thick one, copy write infringement is not theft, plain and simple.

          If someone who downloaded a song was never planning to buy that song in the first place how exactly is that a lost sale?

        • Realist

          It is certainly theft. You’re taking something that doesn’t belong to you without paying. It’s not the same as physically stealing, but it’s still theft. I get your point. a professional graphic designer would pay $500 for photoshop, and some random kid never would, so he never would have bought it in the first place. but the fact remains that the product is still worth $500.

          So how do you know which downloaders would really pay for it and which wouldn’t? You don’t. So you either charge the whole amount, charge nothing, or come up with an arbitrary number. They went with the whole amount. I think its a bit much, but a crime was still committed.

      • Realist

        Why ask me like I know? Go ask whoever wrote the article, or better yetter DotCom.

      • Realist

        So you’re saying there’s no reason to pay for intellectual property?

        • Gulm0

          Yes obviously you must! But that doesn’t work one way you know! Should I make a list for you which/whom should be given revenue before even uttering few nostalgic greats of Hollywood? Do you even know why Hollywood is at Hollywood & nowhere else in US.

          Fuck, don’t teach people about what to pay & what not. So good these “intellectual property owners” are, why don’t they consider pay after policy? Donen’t the newspaper stalls run in the same manner in the US? Or, may be you don’t consider the newspapers profitable enough!!

    • Anonymous

      copying is not theft, there is no physical theft happening. The original product is still available to be purchased by anyone. And even digital content being pirated isnt effecting anyone because the content being downloaded is not coming from the bandwidth of the main source.

      plus it has been proven at least for music artists, going to a concert is more profitable. I’d assume easily that going to a theater probably benefits the movie industry more as well since the industry doesn’t have to pay for shipping, production, and packaging

      RP2012

      • Realist

        There is no physical theft happening, so that makes it okay to steal something others legally pay for? On software applications there’s usually a user agreement which clearly states any reproduction or copy of the media is illegal, and yet most people check away regardless.

        In the real world people pay for the services they use. That’s life and that’s the system we have in America. It’s a good one. If you like the work someone else has spent time to create, pay for it. If not, be prepared to be labeled as a criminal.

        As far as not hurting anyone, you’re wrong. Internet pirating essentially killed the CD. Make excuses all you want, but pirating is still wrong and MegaUpload deserves what it got.

        • Anonymous

          CD needed to die. 3000 songs on my hard drive takes up much less space and is easier to keep the dust off.

  • DownWithSOPASponsors

    Mega Indictment:
    http://pt.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment

    Look at the date. January 2012.

    • Fantastic

      Looking at and and right off the bat
      “were members of the “Mega Conspiracy,” a worldwide criminal organization” Wow…that is…wow. WTF is the Mega Conspiracy???

      • http://twitter.com/akuma_river Brandelyn

        It’s the only way they can get them. The RIOT Act.

        This is going to be a very interesting legal battle. Not just the criminal suit against Mega, but the civilian one against the US DOJ for illegal seizure and search of Mega customer’s data on the servers. I sure as hell didn’t give them permission not to mention I doubt the search warrant will include ‘legal’ items. But they need to search through the items to find the not so legal items. Which violates my rights.

        I get to sue.

        Mega is an online storage facility, like physical storage buildings, the contents do NOT belong to Mega but to the customers.

  • http://twitter.com/darkthunder84 Michael Anderson

    Interestingly, both http://www.justice.gov (Department of Justice), and http://www.fbi.gov (FBI homepage) are currently inaccessable.

    • Anonymous

      Courtesy of anonymous

  • Kawlv1

    I’m sorry but I do believe in piracy except when it’s for monetary gain as the government states but come on not everyone can afford to purchase all the movies and music they want when it is all price fixed for more money that it’s worth just so a CEO fatass can make more money and screw over the artists. Quit paying actors such a high salary and let them work for there money like everyone else. Musicians, come one go on tour more and you will make the money you want. Everyone else well we are screwed when it comes to this because we have to work 40 or more hours just to survive and get what we want.

    • Realist

      Seriously? You can buy songs on amazon for 99 cents. You can go see a movie for $10. You can rent movies for $1 for goodness sakes. This is not about the poor middle class that can’t afford to listen to music. (ever hear of internet radio or fm radio by the way? It’s free.) People who pirate usually have the money but don’t want to pay. Who does? But that’s how society works. If you don’t want musicians to be paid so much, stop buying their music. Don’t steal it and then make excuses.

  • http://twitter.com/Drb00 Adam Englund

    NEW MEGAUPLOAD SITE – The leading online storage and file delivery service – http://109.236.83.66/

    • Anonymous

      Geolocation states the Netherlands.

      megavideo.bz

  • http://www.francky.me Franck Dernoncourt

    As isoHunt says, the Feds must be jealous of the SOPA blackout and want some blackout action of their own.

  • Andyloren22

    This country’s gone to shit with the dumb fuck president we currently have ….. We should have elected and done an impeachment in the same day to save time ….vote ROMNEY !!!!!!

    • RonPaul2012

      What makes you think ROMEY will be any better? Have you seen his voting record? The only person who can stop this nonsense is Ron Paul.

      Ron Paul 2012

    • Ron Paul 2012

      Romney was actually bitching about “theft of American IP, blah, blah, blah” and how “necessary” it is to “stop it.”

      Don’t kid yourself – Ron Paul is the only hope.

  • Ragin

    THE ONLY FUCKING REASON SOPA DID THIS IS FOR THE FUCKING MONEY GOD DAMN STUPID ASS PEOPLE GOING BROKE THEY JUST JELLY OBAMA DOES BETTER THEN THEM

  • Anonymous

    They didn’t say what they have on megaupload. It could just be that they host too much pirated content, or maybe they have proof that they encouraged piracy, or maybe they were doing something funny with their money too. It doesn’t really matter though.

    The only reason that megaupload was targeted is because the music studios wanted to suppress a competitor. There are many business in the world that are guilty of crimes. If a corporation can influence the government to shut down competitors that is corruption.

    Its impossible to run a site like megaupload and expect to filter pirated content. It would cost too much money to open each file and check if its copywritten. Even if it is copywritten they don’t know if the copyright holder uploaded it. The only reasonable way to filter content is to let copyright holders notify them if they want something taken down.

  • Cameron

    cameron,

    i love megaupload and fuck it, i love piracy, movies are way to expensive now a days to go to. 15$ a person and thats not even with food. after seein a flick in the theatres your already out like 35$. The people that make these movies arent suffereing from piracy has anyone seen the directors now a days, the richer that rich,

    if it wasnt for piracy technology would also be far behind in the digital world. piracy keeps those bastards on their toes and learning and inventing before things.

    MEGAUPLOAD WILL BE BACK
    if you dont support piracy and free movies the go fuck your self with a 100$ bill and then george lucas will smile at you

    • Realist

      I don’t think you understand that actors and directors aren’t the only ones that get movie profits. Go watch the credits of any film and then you can get back to me on why piracy is important to those people.

      • HollywoodAnna

        Your beloved industry is dying, get over it. Crowd-sourcing will now take the reins and do a much better job. Frankly, who needs Hollywood when all they can muster is remakes? And poor remakes at that.

        • Guy

          Crowd-sourcing is shit, and I don’t watch movies. It churns out low quality for lower price and puts professionals out of business.

      • Gulm0

        Your theory fails!

        Why?

        Because you are saying that the few people(yes they are fewer than the numerous others) in the listing in the end of a movie still in the group who are also leeching away societies’ resources! Don’t claim that they should be paid because they are not exploiting directly. The Hollywood is the worst thief in the history! They stole, they earned plenty with it & they used that same money to make their stealing legal & sharing the same illegal.

        Megaupload will surely prove that it is the end of the line. Hoping to see you people in a different future.

        • Guy

          They’re leeching away societies resources because people pay them! Are you retarded? Do you know what supply and demand is? If you’re unhappy with prices, stop buying it! Don’t steal things like a criminal and then look for some abstract justification. You probably don’t have a job to make claims like that.

  • Andyloren22

    Obama ain’t shit fuckers done nothing for this country

  • DOJ.GOV

    Let’s just hope they do not go after the Porn sites :-)

    • Tali

      unlikely, if they tried that the backlash would be monumental. Piracy? thats ok, people will understand, but porn? arm up lads, its government changing time.

  • Chronoss2008

    CANADA? WTF how can they inlcude Canada ….OH ya th scum sucking prime minister conservative stephen harper…guess anonymous needs to pay the conservative party a visit

  • Cytido

    This really tells us how the USA govnt really is like, controlled by corporations. When their economy failed, the citizens used their hard-earned tax monies to help get corporations back on their feet with Trillions of dollars….the CEOs’ get paid $100 Millions for fuciking up their company. Now they want to fuck the people’s eduction by controlling the Internet and it’s information/content. ….People, EDUCATION is the key to success and a happy life, please tell all your friends to work hard in school….this is the only way to stop the corruption in your Government.

  • Tyguy86

    CONSPIRACY CHARGES?!….. Well fuck me then, every thought going through my head is conspiring againts these faceless cowards. It would be great if the US gov could start to see what side of the line they’re really on.

    YOU ARE THE PROBLEM NOT THE SOLUTION

  • Crab123

    I got the bad feeling Porn sites is next…..gotta download all the porn movies before they are down…..

  • Tyguy86

    At least Germany only had 1 Fuhrer…

    • Kevin

      And look what happened to him after criticizing the Jews.

      • https://thepiratebay.org/user/manOtor/ manOtor

        o.O

        “criticizing the Jews” is one way to put it……

        • Pete@msn.com

          What other way is there? You say anything against Jews and you’re done for.
          Hollywood is 90% Jew, they run America. It’s pretty damned obvious.

        • Dave

          Everyone complaining about the 1% should wake up and realize that Barbra Streisand’s Hollywood Industrial Complex represent the 2%.

    • Dave

      But he wasn’t a politically correct colored guy that a bunch of idiot, NPR listening soccer moms could support.

  • Tyguy86

    Wow PelouzeTF seems to have a lot to say but continues just to say nothing with many words. Easy to roll a pile of shit down a hill bud, having a point to it is a different story.

  • Matt

    It me laugh how the American government and American leading cooperations can launder and steal $12 Billion dollors in Iraq however, prosecute a company for money laundering. The majority of American companies are corrupt and “mass cooperate lobbying” which is aiding these laws or arrests to be put in to action can only really be classed as mass coruption. I dont think there is anything wrong with illegal downloading. Educational reasources should be free everyone has the right to education and self learning. As far as music and films go if companies reduced the price of records or movies people may not download them or watch them online for free it just cooperate greed. I am sure Diseny can buy a small country if they wanted to. Closing down sites like megaupload just provides more evidence of American global bullying, restriction of speach and information and puts more restriction on underground bands or producers or directors, who do not make millions for there music or movies, and are strugalling to get it out their, to get there name heard.

  • Scotddthompson

    21 Agenda is starting to unfold. What next?

  • Apple

    Bastard usa government, i hope a massive asteroid falls on these corrupt, vile monsters.

  • Biniyam1991

    These yanks are really starting to piss me right off…

  • chances14

    megaupload only has themselves to blame. I know people don’t want to hear it but downloading/uploading movies without consent is in fact illegal.

    • Kevin

      No-one gives a shit, now, the fact is, in a Democracy, the Law should represent the peoples views. Since America isn’t a Democracy, the world needs to unite and destroy this rogue state.

      • Realist

        Because they shut-down a website that was acting as a hub for illegally uploaded media? Someone needs to get their priorities straight.

        • Kevin

          No. The people decide what is appropriate for a Law! If they don’t care about piracy, then no law should exist against it. That is how a Democracy is supposed to work, if you think otherwise, you should really step out of the Rogue State of America.

      • lol

        America is a republic…

        • USA = POLICE STATE

          it WAS a republic – currently, america is a police state

      • Dave

        sounds like Kevin Walker-Lindh

      • Guy

        So you’re saying that if a lot of people want something for free then the government should be okay with it? You sir, are a joke. I want my food for free! united against Farmers! I want my Clothes free! United against Gucci!

    • Dave

      What about musicians voluntarily sharing their own work? Most web music is free and legal, despite all the propaganda about alleged piracy. As far as rich “entertainers” like Barbra Streisand being cheated out of royalties, she’s part of the same obnoxious liberal outfit that hates the free market (for everyone else except her). What this is really about is insatiably greedy people like her trying to deny millions of web artists the right to publish music outside of her Hollywood Industrial Complex,

      • Gulm0

        They won’t listen buddy! They are wiping the asses of their beloved corporate world. Never thought that the misuse of power could go such an extent.

    • Anonymous

      Actually… no.

      The law that applies to MegaUpload is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and I expect it will be found in Court that they did follow the law.

  • Dave

    I’m a radio broadcaster who regularly receives music from artists via services such as Megaupload.

    This heavy-handed action by Obama’s administration is absolutely outrageous! It’s part of a bigger scheme that I’ve been warning everyone about for the last year: several groups with different end goals currently share a common interest in shutting down all free transfer of media on the web. False piracy accusations are being used as an excuse and due process is being bypassed.

    Big record industry dinosaurs like David “squeeze blood out of a stone” Geffen (a major bank roller of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign) are trying to regain the power they previously had to control all music publishing. Unbelievably they’re accusing anyone who uploads their own music on personal websites of violating their own copyright!

    Other conspirators include:Apple Computers. This over rated and overpriced company only has a tiny market share but also has an ignorant following of fanatically intransigent users in positions of power who are forcing “Mac-only” transitions in several industries. This has falsely inflated the company’s significance. Apple’s demented goal is to force every music consumer and artist into its iTunes mafia, implying that any music outside of iTunes is pirated. Many of Apple’s blowhard supporters embrace this lie like others put out by this maniacal outfit.

    Eric Holder’s “Just Us” Department is a collection of the biggest criminals in U.S. history. As far as his boss goes, there’s an old saying: “The fish stinks from the head.”

  • Foe

    Don’t blame me. I voted for Ron Paul (the only defender of Wikileaks and opponent of SOPA and other crap bills to moderate internet).

    BTW, if you really want to stick it to them, buy nothing out of Hollywood or the music industry. RIAA and hollywood are powerful and pushing this through. Hopefully SOPA won’t pass.

    • Weihhih

      ron paul ftw

      all these idiots that wanted ‘change’ under obama, well hes your change

  • Kay LeSock

    Turns out they’ve got a backup plan. Just type in an alternate IP address in the search bar (http://109.236.83.66/) and there you go. The “new” site.

    • Dave

      Just tried your site but it hangs like Megaupload. BTW-did you notice the ad for iLivid “download manager” on this page? One of my file transfer sites has changed to obnoxiously impede uploading and downloading files, and this iLivid.exe is being pushed to fool users into downloading it. I suspect it has tracking software.

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  • Ad3taw35k

    According to an article in USAToday,
    “Megaupload is based in Hong Kong, but some of the alleged pirated content was hosted on leased servers in Ashburn, Va., which gave federal authorities jurisdiction, the indictment said.”
    —————————————

    Which tells that any other file sharing sites need to get rid of any hosting in the USA. Whether they are legitimate files or not. Why risk it.

    • Kevin

      People and Companies need to unite and pull all their hosting out of the U.S. Let them go back to the dark ages of the information age.

    • Anonymous

      I believe it more true to say that Mega had several companies over their 18 domains and one of the most lawful was based in Virginia.

  • USAfacistState

    damnD

  • Abowlofsoda

    ANARCHY

    • Mynameisearl

      Anarchy is the future. The Non-aggression principle ftw.

      Google these free ebooks/audiobooks

      Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner.
      For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard
      Man, Economy and State by Murray Rothbard
      Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DIECEIEFL6FYQIQARW5QQWLZT4 Canzara

    Geez, he could have had a child porn site and been in less trouble. Doesn’t this say something about the direction our society is going?

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  • wass da dizza?

    next WW is coming.
    /World

  • Euker

    All thieves are going to die of cancer.

    • Kevin

      Awesome. So, most of the U.S Congress will die soon. Sounds great.

  • Kniftagstuh

    “MegaUpload site itself had no search function to discover content directly, but according to the indictment this was done to “conceal the scope of its infringement.””
    So i guess youtube is next?? since they do have a search fucntion not concealing the scope of infringement?:P
    Hey are they also going to take down google???? since google gives access to like every site there is?
    US gov needs to focus on their fucking 14 trilion dollars in debt not on this bullshit…. hands of the internet and stick the SOPA and PIPA up your assess

  • Anonymous

    Wow when I worked at Cogent i saw their account they had over 150 circuits scattered all throughtout the US and Europe

  • Pete@msn.com

    What about the loss of revenue for all businesses involved, or does it only matter if the CEO’s surname is Jewish sounding?

  • Lebron

    The biggest site in the World Wide Web that gives you direct links to ALL the “evil” illegal hosting file websites is… http://WWW.GOOGLE.COM. Someone should really close them too!! That’s the kind of logic i expect from these guys… If you can’t search it… You wouldn’t find it.

  • foff

    I am pretty sure if megaupload is half as smart the pirate bay they will be back up sans any us hosting. If the founder of Megaupload has the money they say you can be sure he will lawyer up. I don’t think the case has any legs. My question is why didn’t they try this with the Pirate Bay? Why go after a cyberlocker. Hosting copyright content is not a crime only the downloading is. Whatever lawyer prepared the indictment apparently has very little understanding of the internet.

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  • Guest

    Flynn Lives!

  • http://twitter.com/akuma_river Brandelyn

    You wanna know why this is such fucking bullshit? They still haven’t done shit about the Great Recession, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, etc with how they fucked up everything in the world and lost us all over a TRILLION fucking dollars.

    They always leave the wealthy alone. Rich and below is fair game.

  • Gest

    so dont they think this will just make the guys braking the law just go under ground why dont they do some thing use full like catch terrorists or murders for fecks sack copyright infringement what a crime

  • Guest

    Lesson 1 = Dont put your servers or anything in the U.S.

    • Theatre

      That won’t stop the stupidity of the U.S. Government

  • guest

    The US is a greedy f*cking country and just like all those before, Rome, Greece, Spain; America will fall

  • Anon

    To all the mental midgets bashing the USA. Stay in school!

    Every single government in this world is intertwined with the top 1 percent of money in the world. They dictate everything and how it will work. Your governments are NO BETTER or in most cases worse because they have collaborated.

  • Guest

    When I go to the voting polls in November, I will not be voting for anyone who voted for these two poorly drafted laws….period! I am hoping that this final robbery of our freedom upsets enough citizens to bring about change in a country that invades other countries to try to force them to convert to a free and democratic government while it robs its own citizens of one freedom after another.

  • Guest

    If you really want to stop this kind of corruption then the American people themselves need to remind their politicians that they are public servants and not royalty elected to bleed the public dry while they live in mansions and have buttlers.

    America needs their own version of the Arab Spring. They need to show that not being re-elected is not the worst consequence of public betrayal. The public need to push for criminal prosecution in the form of treason against the people who claim to want to serve the country but only serve themselves.

    A mass day of no-one going to work, or using any services needs to happen (or insert idea) to remind the government that it is the people’s country and that government is elected to enact the people’s will, not to enact the will of the rich or of industry and not to profit while people lose their houses and jobs.

  • http://twitter.com/grputland Gavin R. Putland

    If the jury thinks the likely sentence is excessive, it can acquit regardless of the “law” and the facts, and the acquittal is binding. It’s called “jury nullification”. But the jurors won’t be told this in court. They’ll need to hear about it from elsewhere. Spread the word!

  • Jen89

    People need to stop supporting these evil monopolies. Get yourself, get your company off Microsoft, Apple, MPAA content, Netflix (they use DRM), Hulu (DRM again), Amazon streaming video services (DRM again), Google, Dell, HP, and similar. These companies don’t have you best interests in mind.

    http://www.thinkpenguin.com/ – computers with free software compatible operating systems or DRM (digital restrictions)!

    http://www.eztakes.com/ – DRM (digitally restricted content) free movies

    http://www.gog.com/ – Games without DRM (digitally restricted software)

    http://www.fsf.org/ – directory of free software- they are one of the major organisations which have your interests in mind- and they aren’t against developers making money from software. just about all free software developers do it for a living and get paid.

    http://www.eff.org/ – another organisation which defends your rights online- they have supported projects like Tor which help people evade oppressive regimes (not just China or Iran, but in Europe and North America as well)

    http://www.aclu.org/ – not everything happens on the Internet and the ACLU defends your rights at all costs- even when people pull out support for the organisation due to the defence of those who would rescind your rights (Neo Nazis, etc)

    http://www.trisquel.info/ a completely free operating system based on GNU/Linux that doesn’t include non-free software like Adobe Flash

    • jan

      Alternative search engines to Google and Bing:

      http://www.duckduckgo.com – Provides a clean interface together with a no-tracking privacy policy.

      also don’t use Facebook!!!!!! they are horrible.

      https://www.joindiaspora.com/ – alternative freedom thinking social networking alternative that doesn’t align you to any particular company or put your privacy at risk

      Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Delicious, and Twitter are also BAD BAD BAD. Read more about why you shouldn’t use them at http://www.fsf.org/share

      The FSF recommends these sites because they follow ethical guidelines and respect their users:

      identi.ca
      reddit

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  • Gasxero

    cartels beheading people on our doorstep and the feds rather chase ‘internet crime’…fucking pathetic. Why do i pay taxes again?

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  • Evstatheos

    why don’t they go after YouTube……..

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  • Asddasd

    owned

  • Icex2005

    It’s funny on how the US is trying to put an end to copyright infringement, especially when the companies they are acting for make record profits or did achieve what they set as goals.. I say once you’ve made your money, its time to give back to those who can not afford these products or services. You’ve made your damn money, enough is enough, that is why the US structure is failing because the big companies are still greedy and want more and more but would give nothing back!! What they won’t tell you also is that for every 1 illegal download, 3 people still buy the product.

    My opinion: Pay to watch a movies at a theater, then I’ve paid my money, so I should have the right to see it free afterwards. (But that’s my opinion)

    Good day and hunting to all….

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  • Guest

    Wow, just wow… I didn’t even know about Megaupload until the other day when I was reading all the flap about the MPAA and RIAA pulling a promotional video down off Youtube. As a citizen of the US, I for one would LIKE to think that the US Government has our best interests at heart, but I know the truth. The USG is as corrupt as the corporations running it. All the politicians are pail shills of their corporate masters. Seriously, do you think we actually have any viable candidates to choose from at the ballot box? Nope, we don’t. They are all paid shills who talk a good game but when it comes down to it, they work against the wishes of the people.

    The people of the world do not like the US, and quite frankly, I don’t blame them. I do not approve of my country being the world’s police force. It’s been like that since before Vietnam. The history of my country is very ugly, and it’s only going to stay that way until the people rise up and say “enough is enough” and drag those politicians out of their offices and tar and feather them in public.

    However, I’m just one person, but I do know alot of people are fed up with it as well. It just takes a leader to organize the people to force the USG to listen to us. The problem is nobody wants to be that leader. History has also shown that when a leader does emerge, that leader is usually assassinated by the establishment if they really stir up the hornets nest. Look at Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of this.

    Even if Megaupload was following the DMCA safe harbor provisions, the feds still went after them since they are working for the MPAA and RIAA extortionists. The feds went after the wrong people. They should have went after the MPAA and RIAA instead.

  • Travis_ki_1979

    I love MU, but admittedly I don’t know a whole lot about copyright infringement or the internet. What I DO know is politics. And the amount of ignorance about Ron Paul and his policies astounds me. I don’t understand how any American who cares about freedom can be against this guy. He wants to SEVERELY limit the power of the federal government to intrude upon our lives. PERIOD. To any of you who question whose side he’s on, just look at who his contributors are, and how he’s covered by the mainstream media (i.e. huge mega corporations). He might be running as a Republican, but that’s only because the only way he’ll get ANY exposure is to run as either a Democrat or Republican. In reality, he’s neither. Both those parties want to increase the power of the Federal Government and he wants to decrease it. Ron Paul would never stand for the U.S. government being able to infringe upon the sovereignty of a foreign country. Just like he’s the only presidential candidate (including Obama) who thinks that the government shouldn’t have the right to arrest and detain American citizens without trial or evidence. Just like he’s the only presidential candidate (including Obama) who believes that if I want to smoke a joint in the privacy of my own home, I should have the right to do that without the government throwing me in jail for it. To those who call him a racist, name another candidate (including Obama) who is willing to point out that the war on drugs is a war on black families (and black men, in particular) and who is willing to free the millions of American citizens who are in prison for non violent drug related offenses.
    Before you bash him, please, please, PLEASE take the time to do some research. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have a HUGE interest in painting this guy as a nut. Don’t listen to them. Go to his website, read up on his policies, and decide for yourself. If you still don’t agree with him, fine. But just realize that anything you hear about him from either major political party or the mainstream media is going to be hugely biased. THINK FOR YOURSELVES!

    • Ugly American

      Right on target.

  • Aggie188

    this is ridiculous.
    its one thing to ban it, but there are ppl that actually pay for their account….
    whatever happened to freedom……

    • Dave

      Hollywood shylocks are demanding their pound of flesh but want much more: to stop all flow of media and info on the web. Like the Indians with booze, these control freaks just can’t stop.

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  • Guest

    MPAA / RIAA are probably hosting huge party right now just to prove even without SOPA/PIPA they can still takedown sites.

    RIP megaupload will miss you!

  • Guest

    im not gonna be a graphics designer anyway, if FBI think thats bad.
    Julius Bencko, 35, Mega’s graphic designer from Slovakia DETAINED lol

  • Jeremy

    Everybody switching from cyberlockers to BTGuard now? The cascade will begin shortly and other cyberlockers will give out +1 year traffic like hotfile did.

  • Jo2bana

    HEY FEDERAL! THE NEXT IS VEVO RIGHT? PFFF

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  • Go Mega!

    I’ve seen the link to the supposedly new megavideo site posted here megavideo.bz.

    Has anyone checked it? Hope it’s not some scammer cashing in on the whole thing!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/SexyBabesForum Brian Dougherty

      Megavideo.bz is fake it is hosted with hostgator LOL

    • Dave

      that site comes back as “forbidden.” Hell hath no fury like a colored Just-Us Department that does the bidding for the 2%: the Hollywood Industrial Complex.

  • Ankels

    I think the biggest shame here is that all those countries, which really should know better by now, sold their own citizens to US. And they know very well that US will hang them. That’s how states betray their own.

  • John Dough

    So, Anonymous has hacked a few more sites and shut them down.
    I wonder when Anonymous will do real damage and not just jam up public toilets. I mean propaganda outlets. Then I’ll start cheering
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  • sksha

    What should we do about this?

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  • http://cyberkiller.pip.verisignlabs.com/ Cyber Killer

    I agree with boycott the hollywood. But it’s not about not giving them money and just pirating everything regardless. No, what you need to do is stop pirating also, don’t buy, don’t pirate, don’t look if sbdy else shows it to you, don’t even talk about it, don’t be interested in their content at all. This is what really hits them – even if you don’t give them money, but you help to popularize their content then you are helping them, cause somebody else will give them money.

    Go and explore the wonderful world of free culture, start with jamendo for music and vodo for movies. Or if you want to buy then buy something from other parts of the world – e.g. asian urban horrors are great.

    I live like this for some good 5+ years now. Most my friends find it awkward to talk to me, but occasionally somebody also takes this route. It’s not easy at start, but it’s worth it.

    • Dave

      Here’s how to really boycott Hollywood: tell them to take their crazy progressive (Marxist) quack agendas and stick them where the sun doesn’t shine. And screw their puppet Food-Stamp president. “I think he said the president is near…”

      • Anonniemusss

        Don’t you mean Fascist? Marx would have given it all away for free. That’s what a Socialist does. A Fascist wants it all for himself.

  • BoyCott Hollywood

    Get behind the BOYCOTT HOLLYWOOD Movement! If you really wanna do something about it. Hurt them in their pocket.

    • Dave

      Great idea! I’m with you 100%. Having lived near these vultures, I’ve experienced their hypocrisy first hand. All their Che T-Shirts, Soviet flags and phony Occupy rallies can’t cover the brazen greed of these penny-pinching billionaires.

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  • Mr. Yuso

    Initially they have some good intentions but they sacrifice a lot of freedom. US politicians blaming there debts because of piracy and “FREE SERVICES” on the internet leaving them no tax payers.

    If we are talking about movie industry… Hey they are earning millions but other people just earn dollars in Piracy.. Lol :))

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  • markie

    Is it because Megaupload made that video with the artist. That youtube pulled of because they claimed it was copyrighted. So the only way to stop Megaupload was to shut them down.

    • http://www.facebook.com/SexyBabesForum Brian Dougherty

      I totally agree this is the reason & trying to sue UMG this is what put the nail in the coffin for Megaupload

    • Dave

      They did a lot more than that: they stopped all artists from legitimately using MegaUpload to publicize their work by posting it; but that’s the real goal.

      File transfer sites are the first to be shut down. Next will be persecution of people falsely accused of downloading pirated media, followed by the targeting of any artist who posts their own work without going through the Hollywood Industrial Complex.

      People need to wake up and see that Obama’s progressive (Soviet) agenda is taking this country into totalitarianism.

      • John Dough

        Dave, it was Bush that brought the Law in, not Obama. It was the right wingnut Fascist pigs that you should be hating.
        Please do try to be factual. That way you won’t appear to be a complete idiot. .

        • Ron Paul 2012

          And you think Obama and his administration are innocent in all this?! LOL

      • Gulm0

        They, the so called mainframe of US, are simply trying to reinstate the imperialism. Just using a different name & in place of a single person there are few.

  • Magic8Ball

    Who-ever is pulling to strings to get MegaUpload taken down like this is a little BITCH. If you got problems with Kim DotCom I’m sure he would be more than happy to settle any issues inside a cage fighting match. Fight to the death. Kim will simply sit on his opponents killing them one by one.

    BITCHES!

    • Dave

      The shylocks behind the Hollywood Industrial Complex are determined to get their pound of flesh. It’s laughable that these lunatic morons who can’t put a plug into a wall socket are trying to control the web. Their stupidity about computers is summed up by their fanatical support of Apple. Simple machines for simple minds,

  • Miriam

    The “brainboxes” of the world cannot handle a little competition. I am WITH YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Dave

      What can you expect from a hypocritical nepotistic regime who think Apple is the forefront of technology? Their knowledge of computers and the web is on par with their extremist fringe political views: the foul stench of progressivsim, which is just repackaged communism.

      And what else can you expect from an administration when it’s run by a brainbox president these lunatics support?

  • Jukka “Marjakarhu”

    The end is closer…roll on December :o

  • Gerolkae

    Any one rember napster? Sounds to me that’s Where this might Start.. except that was over a Woman CEO who told of the US Gov’t

  • VC

    To be perfectly honest, I can’t wait for the US economy to completely crash. When it happens I will savour the moment and celebrate it every year afterwards.

    • VC

      Actually I want to apologise. I don’t wish any harm on the people of the USA, but I do dislike the way your government acts sometimes and also the entertainment/copyright industry. I was too angry in that moment, sorry.

  • Weihhih

    boycott, somebody organize it

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  • Mygmail

    ever downloaded one single copywritten mp3 without paying for it? Then you have no one to blame but yourself! I admit I did in the past, but I agree with sopa and pipa I nor anyone in my house hold pirates anything anymore! if you like something pay for it!

    • got teeth?

      gtfo lol.u still did it, didnt u. may you burn in hell!

      you WILL be in court next.

    • got teetht?

      bet u dont agree with sopa and pipa when they block access to that gay fag porn u watch every chance u get.

      • BooBooKittyPr0n

        LMFAO!!!

    • BooBooKittyFlac

      “ever downloaded one single copywritten mp3 without paying for it?”

      Yes, because it’s lossy and absolutely worthless – I would gladly pay a reasonable fee for lossess / FLAC, but mp3 is a joke.

  • What The Censored

    it is not money laundering.
    If you invest in your business, and you get subscribers( that pay 10$ a month) and revenue out advertisement, would you call that money laundering?

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  • Hijme90

    So when is the porn industry gonna claim the internet? because that is the industry that made sure the internet could grow:P

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  • got teetht?

    i was thinking that i was glad they finally picked a fight with someone who could afford to fight back, but then i think, how?everything has been seized by the filth, is just a way to ruin his chances of putting up a good defense.

    im sure if they werent able to seize all his assests and bank accounts, this wouldnt even be happening.kim would clean up with the cash he has (had).

  • Anonloks

    http://109.236.83.66/

    She’s Back.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais

      Is she, though? Nothing on that page works, nor does a random download I just tried with the IP address substituted for the domain name. As it says on the page…”BEWARE THE PISHING SITES” (yes it actually says “pishing”) … something’s sure pishy here.

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  • Anonymous

    I cannot get over the fact that so much time, money and resource is being put into this, when the scumbags who caused the financial meltdown are still walking free…
    http://dearthey.com/2012/01/19/mega-upload-is-dead-a-quick-reminder-that-you-dont-run-your-government-anymore/

  • 2wcp

    Never buy lifetime accounts on ANY filesharing site. Nuff said

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  • Apple

    2012 is here..this is the beginning of the end for the USA.

    • Gorgeous George

      Yeah, no.

  • 7y9g9

    When the bodies of government authorities, RIAA employees etc start dropping like flies then they reconsider their criminal activity.

    they want war? They will get it

    Theyw ant terror? They will get it.

    The time has come to protect human rights anf liberties against a criminal gang with a weapon and dynamit, yes.

  • Jhon

    this is the begin of the end of freedom black cloud is commin very sad

    • Gorgeous George

      Huh??

  • V 4 Vendetta

    Since the United States advocates Human Rights then here is something for them:

    COPYRIGHT IS A VIOLATION OF OUR HUMAN RIGHTS
    OUR RIGHTS TO FREE OR ALTERNATIVE PRODUCTS

  • Fuckusa

    Fuck off US !!!!!! I lost my all works :(( Who will return my data’s? What should i do now :(

    • Gorgeous George

      Cry more.

  • Hayward

    obama u suck u need to grow up n see what u are doing to the americans u are making us poor n broke get the fuck out

  • Testia

    109.236.83.66 this seems a new megaupload ;)

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais

      Nothing on that page works, nor does a random download I just tried with the IP address substituted for the domain name. “BEWARE THE PISHING SITES” (yes it actually says “pishing”) … something’s pishy here.

  • Arnel K.

    This is sad, actors who make movies don’t deserve millions anyway. To make a movie shouldn’t cost millions. People are too greedy. Boycott this crap.

  • Zippin2
  • http://profiles.google.com/statueofmike Michael S

    No trial?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PFCI5VRUCYT6AVBT3P6ILV3COI Ophelia Millais

      This is a criminal case. There will be a trial. And you can’t have a trial without going through these steps first.

  • Anonymous

    it seems to me that the best thing would be for the rest of the world to ban the US from anything and everything. they want to be in charge, let them be in charge of themselves, nothing more. i dont understand why they seem to think they are better than everyone else and have more rights than everyone else. i wonder how long they would last without everyone else? i am sure everyone else would survive without them. would be interesting to find out!

  • got teetht?

    must be new zealand payback for this…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mMY4QjefE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

    imagine, the guy donates 500,000 dollars of fireworks, as a thankyou, and this is the thanks they give him

  • Nigari

    The Kraken stretches its arms further and further…

  • James

    Megaupload and Kimble did this to themselves. They could have continued business as usual and not been so flashy, and controversial. Instead, he had to have 6 million in cars, live in Mansions and make a fool out of Hollywood.

    They had to make 3 million dollar videos telling the record companies basically to fuck off.

    What did they think was going to happen when they sued Universal. You can’t throw stones at GIANT’S like that from a glass house.

    Its that fat Kimble that fucked over everyone that was using Megaupload.

    Also, that Indictment has serial numbers, even down to CAMERAS on a document Filed on January 5th. They have 50+ bank accounts, and even the VIN numbers from cars. This document was prepared and filed way before the RAID.

    There had to be an insider in Megaupload that Kim must have pissed off IMO.

    • got teeth?

      dont be a dick, h8r.

      he can be as flashy as he wants, is his money.dik….gtfo

  • HATEME

    just to be factual, 19.4% of the world’s exports come from the United States. It used to be much higher, though china is like 19.8%

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  • Guest

    The internet lives on.

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  • Mythiclese

    FUCK!!! I just lost access to my online business backups, you stupid fucks(FBI)!!! Now I’m going to have to hit the FBI with an NDA to not disclose my intellectual property. I WAS using this as a legitimate backup service. “Let’s just seize this thing. damn the legitimate users” FUCK YOU. FBI!!!. Yes, I’m pissed.

    • Pete

      Rip into them! Seriously, let them have it. The stupid pricks care not about anyone but Hollywood.

    • Anonymous

      All I lost were some cute pony photos.

      • Gorgeous George

        Oh dear…

  • Justice

    Hahahahaha! But youtube are still selling ads over copyrighted content, excusing themselves that users should own the exclusive rights of the stuff they upload. ARREST THE YOUTUBE owners, you faqz!!!

  • Decide

    sad day to be an american. the fbi has nothing better to do than this?

  • Anonymous

    The Piratebay thrashes SOPA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oheNAqYShNM

  • hairybogwoppit

    what about all the cloud storage. is that next? this has gone too far, this is the first internet War! hit mummy spider and its children will scatter. they just want tax revenues to get out of the mess they created with their imperialistic wars. this is the end of people looking up to america for their own civil liberties and freedom. 30%+ of mega’s stored files were and still are legitimate legal pieces of information, like company back up files? what are these legitimate users going to do now? i say back to basics and back up your own information and screw the damn cloud and online storage.

  • PRIVACY is priceless to me

    U$A = worse than nazi tyranny, only to be taken over by the worse than nazi chinese tyranny. Americans are just stupid ball-less & brainless slaves.

    • Anonymous

      …and we got another USA hater. So where are you from sweet cheeks? I notice no one tells from which country they come from, but I guarentee that country has some skeletons in their closets too.

      So let the first country without guilt cast the next stone.

  • Psainsbury14@hotmail.com

    These Internet providers better stick there piece in because what’s the point of having 50 meg lines and so on if there nothing to download of sites. Because lets face it the reason why we get faster speeds is to download faster and if there nothing to down load what’s the point of having the faster speed so you down grade your line which is going cost you less. That’s when your providers start loosing money. So every one a looser.

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  • Pete

    I honestly feel for American citizens! The world is hating American more and more and it’s now near flash point. I can’t stand America and it’s arrogance. I honestly hate America. That said, I feel for its citizens, because, I know they are relatively powerless to stop the tyranny.

    • D2skrillah

      You post is self contradictory.

      America is a country of people of all nationalities religions etc. It’s ironic that to hate America you are hating people that come from your own country & religion etc. and possibly have left said country trying to find a better life.

      Yes our political system is imperfect, but what system is? Very few places in the world you can actively protest, and even denounce your own government.

      People need to stop focusing on America and focus on their own countries and problems. If you think that Americans will just sit idly by and take shit from the .01% in power, you’re mistaken. Change will happen, is happening, but it takes time, and if it doesn’t… REVOLUTION!

      • Camwhore

        Sorry, but I think Americans will sit by and let their Government do whatever it pleases to them. America is hated the world over. Denounce your Government in America, let us see how long you remain a free citizen. You will be locked up as a terrorist.
        It’s time for the world to cut off America. The U.S. is a rogue state and is a threat to the free world.

        • Anonymous

          …and what perfect country are you from ass-hat?

  • Numberonestylist

    you all should watch zeitgeist. all 3 of them

  • Gunman5

    To be fair I think most judges and juries would recognise that this is just a civil claim dressed up as a criminal one. I don’t claim to be some kind of expert on the matter but aren’t American judges voted into their role? I could easily imagine judges being influenced on a political level, but I can’t see the same happening to the jury (unless they were completely stupid). Anyone else?

    • Camwhore

      Jury is completely stupid. This is America we’re talking about.

      • Fantastic

        Yea MPAA/DOJ will look for the most elderly internet illiterate folk to be on this Jury and another one of those ex lobbyist turned Judge to oversee this.

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  • Tampa

    take 1 down 5 pop up. You cant stop the rain!

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  • Anonymous

    Megaupload had it coming. They charged money for handing stolen goods, no wonder they are filthy rich. It’s pathetic to see people streaming pirated movies etc. complain over this. We’re stealing when we watch pirated content, dont try to justify it, accept it and stop whining.

    These bastards deserve everything they get.

    • Paul

      Wrong. Most people don’t see it as stealing. A democratic country would then apply laws relevant to the peoples opinion of what should be law (common law). America is a rogue nation and a threat to the world. We need to liberate the American citizens from it’s fascist Government.

    • V 4 VENDETTA

      The American keeps harping on respecting human rights then why aren’t they respecting the rights of people to watch pirated content.

      COPYRIGHT IS A VIOLATION OF OUR HUMAN RIGHTS
      OUR RIGHTS TO FREE AND ALTERNATIVE CONTENTS!!!

    • Anonymous

      MegaUpload were providing a service to supply to others what people upload and their business was covered by DMCA “safe harbour” law.

      You may care to note that description applies to thousands of other businesses on the Web who would now be very interested in this case. It seems that not even following DMCA law can protect you from such bullshit.

      I expect if this case goes ahead hundreds of companies will relocate and cut off all ties to the United States.

    • Amsterdamned

      I’m from Holland where downloading movies and music is legal.
      So shut the buck up with your american mindset, thinking american law rules the world. Viva Amsterdam biach.

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  • Ghost Protocol

    Very bad news considering how good and reliable Megaupload’s service was. How about the personal files you have stored there? The MPAA/RIAA and the US DoJ has clearly overstepped on this one and has completely disregarded the legitimate needs of Megaupload users. This is unfair! This shutdown is wrong!

  • C45

    Fuck you Feds. What about people who stored their legal photos there. Wanna see people naked? Where are human rights to privacy there? People lets just sue Feds and US government for not respecting our rights.

  • Simon

    R.i.P. megaupload.. is there more to say ? :’(

  • Andy P

    Mega-uh-oh… Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.

  • loot

    So what happens to us with accounts ?

    Will the $$$ hungry bastards go after us for uploading/downloading through are IP addresses stored on our MU accounts…

    MU getting in bed with music artists then buying servers on US soil to accompany there music how fucking dumb was that… your own fault..

    Fuck it. it was good while it lasted but its over now…………

    • Anonymous

      It is not over until the fat lady sings.

      There will be many long Court cases ahead and I doubt the DoJ and ICE will have an easy time over it.

      • Paul

        Finding a fat singing lady in the U.S shouldn’t be too hard.

    • got teeth?

      it was a legitimate business, shouldnt matter where the servers/websites are located.

      seems it dont matter legit or not, this is just a show of power, theyre saying we dont need sopa or pipa to shut you down.

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  • Jbspin

    well this sucks.

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  • Harrypottter

    i got a feeling just like stage6 [although different departments]… mega will stay buried. RIP… so… whens the next big thing coming????

  • http://twitter.com/DigCopyright Digital Copyright

    My thoughts on the Megaupload situation.

    As someone who operates an anti-piracy consultancy for 60 + clients in the music and adult entertainment industries, I can comment on this matter extensively. In my experience, Megaupload has always been co-operative with regards to removing unlicensed content. In fact, I’ve personally removed over 100,000 files from their servers. Moreover, I’ve never had to escalate a claim to their upstream provider or the IFPI etc on behalf of my clients. The same cannot be said of some other filehosting services.

    However, there’s no escaping the fact that they were fully cognisant of what their service was being used for and that they’ve made millions through encouraging the distribution of unlicensed content via their PPC Affiliate Arrangements with uploaders. Of course, they’re no different than many other filehosting services in this respect and some are much worse (Filesonic etc).

    Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see what happens next.

    James Brandes – Digital Copyright Consultancy
    https://twitter.com/#!/DigCopyright

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  • Bjohensson

    Th U.S. is a military democracy that is controlled by business interests. I hope Anonymous continues to attach American government and business interests without end. The American way has always to control the way you think and what you do. They have always wanted to extend american law to other countries. Just look at Canada. It is like the 51 state. All I can say is F**K America and power to the free Internet and Anonymous. Great work Anonymous !!!

  • JUSTPISSEDOFF

    I am an American and this shit is so wrong on so many levels.the first thing we Americans should do is to throw another tea party and reinvent America that is for the people not for who ever has the most moneythere are so many laws that need to be changed but as long as we have a bunch of idiots in Washington that will never happen.Americans are so used to taking it in the ass from the idiots in Washington, that unless they can pay a lobbist there is little that can be done. the office of president is the only office that I know of that they spend millions on to get a job that is supposed to only pay about 240,000 a year.LIKE i SAID”IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER TEA PARTY”

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  • Bjohensson

    America is a military democracy. They have always wanted to control how people think and what they do. The government is controled by business interests and whoever has the depest pockets controls the american government (i.e. Israel lobby groups, MMAFIa, etc). The americans have always wanted to extend American law to other countries (Canada for example is like the 51 American state).

    I sincerely congratulate Anonymous for their attacks on American business/govenment websites.

    I fully support a free Internet !!! F**K America, the FBI, and other facist/criminal organisations.

  • Censorship is not the answer

    Sorry all you people saying fuck Obama and increase piracy to fight this cause but your idiots. Obama and his administration have nothing to do with the take down. To fight the cause you have to point out the fact mega sites ran the DMCA link removal policy and did remove infringing content when copyright holders followed the instructions for notice of take down. Metabolize and video function is to share like YouTube is to share but just like YouTube and any other site users submit the content and there is to much for the site owners to filter by themselves and cost to much to hire people that is why ther is DMCA link removal policy just like on faceboook to report offensive content or abuse. Site owners are not responsible for user generated content

  • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

    TF reports -
    “According to the Department of Justice, the individuals named in the indictment face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit racketeering, five years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and five years in prison on each of the substantive charges of criminal copyright infringement.”

    Glad to see the USA’s come to it’s senses at long last.
    These guys could easily have been facing thousands of years in prison + Trillions of bucks in fines.

    The US must getting soft – and wants to become an easy target for other hosters allowing pix and vids of their kittens and babies.

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  • Joe

    Stop all this nonsense about which country created the internet because everyone knows that it was created by single man, Al Gore.

  • Whose Interest Do They Serve?

    AFAIK, most ordinary Americans are against these kinds of actions, so nobody wants to blame ordinary American citizens. It’s the American politicians that should be blamed for all this. I hate to say this but the USA is starting to become like the former USSR to some extent. Besides, many average Americans seem to be against their government who serves the interest of big money, not the “little man”… and by the way, this concerns nearly all the decision-makers, both the Democrats and Republicans. They’re rather similar parties pursuing surprisingly similar policies. In addition, I’m sure that many people see in Obama some sort of Messiah-like figure, as if he was the solution the all the problems. Well, why did, then, financial institutions support Obama instead of McCain in the end? Because they trusted Obama; the big money was on Obama’s side. Thus, do not expect Obama to forget the support that he got from the financial institutions. Of course, he has to pay back to the financial institutions, and as for SOPA & PIPA, Obama might object to them in the beginning, but do not be surprised if he (all of a sudden) supports the proposed laws.

    By the way, the USA is taking the shape of a typical third-world country. The decision-makers are and represent the small elite whereas most of the population has seen their wages stagnate and so forth. There is no denying, however, that most of the world faces roughly the same problem. Most of the West (Western countries like the EU, North America, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia & NZ etcetera) seems to become more and more unequal, and the decision-makers no longer seem to serve the interest of ordinary people, but that of the oft-criticized big money…

    I live in the West (EU), but how long are we going to be the beacon of democracy that the rest of the world should look up to? I do not want the West to take the shape of a typical developing country where you have a small elite (a tiny fraction of the population) who grabs most of the prosperity, and then controls the entire country by creating new laws that serve its own interest. In this piracy-related context, the new laws might enable the authorities to shut down sites like the YouTube (a.k.a. possibly the most extensive music storage) or enable a stricter control over the material that is uploaded there.

  • Nevada

    Shame on Obama, shame on the NZ govt for arresting their own just for sucking up to the US. Don’t they realize that filesharing sites have been responsible for so much of amazing content reaching people in remote corners of the world it would have never reached otherwise. This spreads culture, peace & understanding. For eg an arab can download a US documentary & hence gain a new insight into the US & realize that people there too are good. These idiots who are against filesharing sites are in fact blocking the who damn peace process by LIMITING access to millions across the world. Obaba has done NOTHING so far. HE has not pulled out the troops nor shut gbay. He now will go down in infamy if he continues this.

  • Jmorse43508

    The shutdown of MU and the arrest of its founmder and others is being viewed as an act of war upon filesharers.

    Well, if the US wants a war, Anonynous and other hackers are willing to them one. The retaliations will likely continue for the foreseeable future.

  • PeaceProcess

    filesharing sites have been responsible for world peace. In fact they should be awarded with a nobel prize. Why dont people realize this? US movies & TV series & music is travelling to the remote corners of africa & sudan & arab countries & thus spreading the message of peace across by uniting cultures. DO u think that the tv channels there would telecast ‘friends’ or ’2 & a half men’?? NO THEY WON’T & now if they shut down filesharing sites, the world will ONCE AGAIN be closed away in small boxes away from each other. People just don’t realize the impact of this.

  • Working stiff

    Ok, so if you are a large corporation such as Bank of America, and you screw millions of individuals out of money by using hidden fees, ridiculous surcharges, bogus late charges, and robo signers, you get a US taxpayer bailout. However, if you are a providing people with a service that happens to piss off several large corporations, you get taken down by the Feds? There really is only “justice” for the wealthy. As Mitt Romney said, “corporations are people too”. It is government by the corporation, for the corporation, with justice for all corporations. For the rest of us it is table scraps.

  • Free Mega Upload

    This is such an atrocity. We are witnessing one of the first steps of the Governments attempt to Iron Curtain the Internet. The fact is that the world is changing and the main source of information sharing is the internet and SHARING should be FREE!! Thats why its called sharing. The prosecution of Mega and its affiliates my be an attempt to stem the tide of money loss to the entertainment industry but like many things they need to learn to adapt. It would be like the newspaper companies suing the internet for lost sales. This is a classic example of scared old people who are too afraid to change with the world.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-James/512607745 Jessica James

    and what about you tube? notice how they don’t go after a cali based company doing almost the SAME THING….

    • Guy

      Not even close. Youtube is HEAVILY regulated. MU is not and has passed emails back and forth condoning piracy.

      • Guest

        Fuck you paid MAFIAA troll. You’re just wasting your keyboard with those silly comments.

        • Guy

          Yup. I’m a paid MAFIAA troll. You got me.

        • conor rynne

          how is he a MAFIAA troll? YouTube IS heavily regulated, MU barely complied with DMCA, and allegedly did not even go that far. Emails WERE found about their employees condoning piracy. What he has stated are facts that have been widely reported, by both pro and anti piracy media outlets

  • Gearheadbulldog

    in response to lavender, i would like to say this,there is NOT one word in any coments about the american production of weapons for the past two hundred years,(THE MILLITARY COMPLEX ) is what they use as leverage on ALL the contries of the world (just ask the swedish government oops there all dead in a plane crash)….if you want to help stop this insanity pay off your credit card and cut it in half they fuel all this death

  • Goosmoo

    Should I contact the government and ask them to refund the 9 remaining months of my megaupload account?

  • Gearheadbulldog

    in re: to fuck the mafiaa i agree with every thing you said,just one point though the u.s. went bankrupt in 1909 and has been a corporation of the brits all this time,i.e. F.B.I.-C.I.A. and alot of others. yep american faces with british interests.(punishment i guess for pushing the brits out in 1776……to bad old george didn’t push freedom for the rest of the world we wouldn’t be in this global prison

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  • http://www.facebook.com/freakingkid Sandeep Singh

    Fileseve just closed their affiliate program.. Fuck.

    End of Uploading is near.

    Fed has started going after everyone!!!!

    Save Your Asses!!

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  • Guest25

    I hate it hate it hate it. If megaupload was American site they would never do that. Every hosting site has illegal/pirated content why laws applied for megaupload???
    U suck Americans

    • Guy

      Yes they would. Ever heard of Limewire?

  • Dis’guest’ed @ Kim Dotcom

    Dumb Dumb Kim, what were you thinking, why couldn’t you lay low, now we all pay? I relied heavily on your website, now this? Why couldn’t you spend your dough quietly, BUT NOOOOOO, thanks Kim, this will be another Larry Flint episode…But hey, if you win, better have another backup plan, like DON”T FLAUNT your stuff again…!!!

    PS: Now it’s not just Kim who’s gonna get the shaft, all who subscribed to MEGA will get the shaft, I feel sorry for all who have memberships, they will come after you next…as for the anonymous, we’re all in trouble, the GOV can track you as well…

  • Hyperdude

    The US (my country) has lost it’s government. I am ashamed of the present US government because all the people elected to office have become killers, thieves and liers. What my country did is comparable to Hitler invading Europe and brutalizing all its people. IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY. BS. My country did this to help the 1% wealthy to become more wealthy. I don’t hate this country, I hate what the evil men have done to it.

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  • Anon-o-mouse

    His last name is Dotcom? ok, thats pretty cool.

    Other than that, I see the World’s Police Department (USA) is still for hire but they need to get their facts straight. IF the Hollywood movie industry lost any money, its because they produce crap films!

    • Guy

      Stupid excuse. I suppose if you invent something, and then pay the government to protect your rights to whatever you created, and then people steal your property you’d be cool with that? Or would you expect the gov. to honor their agreement?

  • Fuckuamerica

    I would like to know where the weapons of mass destructions in Iraq ?

    Justice is a big word. where is the justice for the millions of innocent people killed by you?

    Think again America !

  • Harryh

    Anonymous should rather join their local Pirate Parties instead of disabling some websites nobody cares about anyway.

    This would worry the MPAA/RIAA much much more!!

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  • Guest

    The question is, why did it take so long?
    I find it kind of ironic that while SOPA and PIPA are in everybody mouth, we get a demonstration of how people who make money by basically selling access to copyrighted content without paying any royalties can be shut down with the laws already in place.

  • Guest

    Also, all you people defending megavideo are playing in the hands of those that want more power to shut down sites. Why defend such obviously illigal shit? If we’d all just stick to torrents and P2P networks, it be a lot harder for them to justify shit like SOPA.

  • Trester

    Anonymous should rather join their local Pirate Party (I think the US also have one by now) and engage in political activities instead of launching childish DDOS-attacks.

    THIS would scare the MPAA/RIAA much much more!

    No one cares if some gov website is inaccessible for some hours…

  • Guest

    This makes me want to retaliate.

    • Guy

      I recommend attacking your nearest law enforcement agency, preferably with a loaded weapon. Report back when you’ve gotten your revenge!

  • Looking for the Truth

    Just a couple of points:
    1. If the industry is so concerned about piracy why have they not gone after the companies(ex CNET, part of CBS) who have provided the software(free of charge) to enable these activities. It seems to me that they set a trap for these companies. They provided the means and waited until they needed someone to blame and now are going after them looking for money.
    2. This is another example of the top 1% of the wealthy going after the middle class(almost non existent) and lower class. Stop all the arguing and look at what is going on world wide. In North America all the major businesses that provided stable employment have been allowed to move out of the countries to third world locations in order to sustain the profit margins of the large multinational corporations. They are reestablishing the hierarchy of the middle ages. Rich on top and all the peasants on the bottom. If you’re complaining about this, sorry to say, you are one of the peasants, just like me. They give us small entertainment options(cause most of what Hollywood pumps out is crap) to keep us quiet and sedated. So we don’t rise up and tell them we are done with all this. It’s time for a fundamental change in the distribution of wealth in the world, not just North America. This has nothing to do with the American Dream or Manifest Destiny, it has to do with allowing the entire world population to survive with a decent quality of life. The Corporations don’t rule the world or at least they shouldn’t. Lobby governments around the world for real change.

  • Jason

    Why are people complaining about the fact authorities are taking legal action against illegal activities such as this? Because they’re selfish people, that’s why. They only care about the “privileges” they are losing, without caring much about what copyright owners have been losing.

    By the way, the fact the group created Megaporn.com is a pretty good indication that they supports illegal activities. They certainly didn’t create that domain with amateur porn in mind.

    • Guy

      Exactly. People don’t want to lose access to illegal content and now have to pay for it like everyone else. They feel “entitled” to stolen property even they did fuck-all to earn it. It’s pretty sickening.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1259642408 Michal Saktor

    ppls that are not even from america get arrested!?
    in other countries!!
    court start and finished and they didnt even know that something is going on!?
    so never had chance to defend them selves!!

    wow america showed us again that NOBODY will and can stay in their way.
    ruled by rich groups

    • Guy

      Type “extradition” into google news and see what pops up. So much ignorance.

  • Anonymous

    BOYCOTT AMERICA MADE PRODUCTS AND BRAND NAMES !!!

    BOYCOTT SONY AND UNIVERSAL !!!

    BOYCOTT AMERICA !!!

    • Guy

      I totally agree with the decision to shut-down MU, but if you want to protest this is the proper way to do it. Not theft.

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  • Robmim

    Get Ron Paul elected and we may well have WW3 !

    Get a woman in the hotseat …. It’s pretty obvious that this Megaupload thing is going to become a very big election issue…. and I hope it is …for all the right reasons for freedom of speech and information.

    ..ps… Feds.. can I have my files back? …you have stolen them …

  • Elijah

    I think the misconception that American’s are happy is pure ignorance. I live in America, and all I see is people unhappy with how the country is turning into a huge pile of shit, (at least the sane people). All of our bad decisions come from credulous trust for the system – That politician’s aren’t selfish; greedy power mongers that anybody with common sense knows they are.

    We’re becoming a communist country! Politicians have all the power and all the citizens eat their shit!

    We’re going to fall. Just give it a few years :)

    • Guy

      I don’t think you know what the word “communist” means.

  • Robmim

    Very disappointed in the NZ authorities … they were once the country that became the mouse that roared at the Americans when they tried to bully their way into sovereign waters with nuclear ships, submarines and missiles …. For a little country to say ‘no, we have the right to our waters and land with no nukes’ was a very big thing …. The country was ‘punished’ for a very long time.
    Now …when Virginian prosecutors bark about an internet site the NZ cops and politicians roll over like little lap dogs. Very sad day for freedom if you ask me.

    • Guy

      A very sad day for freedom…yet the reason there’s an issue in the first place is because that same website was violating copyright laws put in place to protect people’s property?

      I think you’ve got it backwards. MU knew what was happening and they deserve what they got.

  • Ire_wolf

    Lets fucking Nuke America. I mean if they can’t controll thier evil scum bag government lets just wipe out every single last mofo on that shit heap the world knows better as dumbfuckastan

    • Guy

      Just because you condone pirating doesn’t mean civilized people do.

  • Robmim

    Nukes never got anyone anywhere positive ..and they never will.

    Talk like that from ‘Ire_wolf’ is neither intelligent, constructive or empathetic to anyone’s just cause. Relax man! (or woman ..or whatever you are)

    What we should all be trying to do is live in harmony not only with our own kind but every other sentient being on this unique planet.
    I’m going to start by having a conversation with my Parrot.

  • Anonymous

    PUTLOCKER IS DOWN???

  • 2146434344

    Might as well shut down Youtube as well! Do it the same way, raid google’s HQ, take all their equipment, cars, and many billions, and arrest everyone in charge. We all know how many copyright infringements are on youtube! Copyrighted songs, recording video games, illegal tutorials, jailbait, etc.! Come on government shut down the internet!

    • Guy

      Youtube is heavily regulated and has never condoned pirated media. MU does not. For example, “the “abuse tool” allegedly does not remove the actual file being complained about by a rightsholder. Instead, it only removes a specific Web address linked to that file—but there might be hundreds of such addresses for popular content.” [ARS]

      So if a company finds an illegal copy and reports it, on Youtube the source is taken down. On MU only one link out of hundreds is taken down, not the source.

      Yeah. That seems legitimate.

  • Joe

    Well great here is the official start of the fall of the U.S., thank you for ruining our country guys the ones we call politicians, all they want is money and try to be the bully country that sticks its nose in everyone’s business, all us americans are fucked, except for all the immigrants living here, all they have to do is get together and they can rule us or go back to mexico with no problems as our government let them in and now there is no one to say you can’t leave or you can’t control us, we soon will be a 3rd world country and we will be the illegal immigrants in other countries, i’m in high school and im not looking forward to the rest of my life in this “country”, i should go back to Texas as it is ready to be its own country again and constantly threats the government with breaking away

  • Guy

    Lots of kids here, pouting because something they liked turned about to be condoning illegal activity. First of all, if you truly believe MU’s innocence, here are some quotes from MegaUpload employees—[source: ARS]

    In a 2008 chat, one employee noted that “we have a funny business… modern days [sic] pirates :),” to which the reply was, “we’re not pirates, we’re just providing shipping servies [sic] to pirates :).”

    Employees send each other e-mails saying things like, “can u pls get me some links to the series called ‘Seinfeld’ from MU [Megaupload],” since some employees did have access to a private internal search engine.
    –
    Not only were they allowing the distribution of copyright material they were clearly and obviously aware of it.

    Secondly, for the people complaining about “Dictator America” raiding other countries- get your facts straight. the New Zealand police made the arrests, not Americans. This info can be found anywhere. Also, they were able to make the arrests in the first place because MU had 550 servers in America, under American jurisdiction.

    –

    Third- to all those that are claiming that downloading pirated media shouldn’t be illegal because it isn’t costing anyone anything since the downloaders would not have bought the product anyway, you need to understand that the DOJ is protecting the RIGHTS of American people by upholding copyright laws. If you create something then that intellectual property belongs to you under the Constitution. Copyright laws allow YOU to decide how to market YOUR product. If YOU decide that other people shouldn’t download your product for free, the government will PROTECT your rights to intellectual property.
    –
    And finally, if you’re wondering why there’s such a steep bill if they didn’t really steal anything, then consider it a fine for all the illegal materials in MU’s possession that they didn’t do enough to regulate.
    –
    Stop bitching if you’re not educated on what’s happening.

  • Robmim

    There is a thing in law in most civilized countries …called Due Process …. It does not really sound like this was even attempted or offered by the US authorities ……. so I’m not going to jump to too many conclusions. However this fact alone makes a great case for overturning and issues (right or wrong)
    Fact is, we all know there are big issues regarding copyright the world over…it’s certinaly not just america suffering from this…but rather than infringe or shut down the web (this is rather like book burning from hundreds of years ago) maybe the companies and institutions show become cleverer at how it is utilized (not easy I know, but neither was building airliners in days gone by)
    Point is..if the law is to be used as it should be ..it should not be abused (as it clearly has by prosecutors) Next thing is they will be taking our house and car just because they have a hunch we watched and episode of CSI last night.
    Due Process …it’s the law ….isnt it? On this basis alone I hope justice prevails.

    • Guy

      With all that CSI you watch I’m surprised you don’t know how the law works. First of all, if law authorities have probable cause to make an arrest then they are allowed to do so, usually after a lengthy investigation. If a rapist was never caught in the act but police had access to evidence of rape, they can’t make an arrest?

      Oh, and did you think the MU case was a spur of the moment decision? They’ve been investigating into them for over two years my friend.

  • Robmim

    Time will judge it all I guess ….who are we, the minions to really have a say.
    I dare say its all going to become riveting reading (for a few days anyway) …Still I cant wait to see what happens if all the fileshare systems suffer the same fate over the next week or so. Business as we know it on the net will be well and truly screwed!

    Certainly this will become a great election topic and I cant wait to see who calls who what in Political circles and how many Politicians about face on this topic! Once again we will see their true motives. MegaUprise I think!

    It could be probable that the Prosecutors have been watching too much CSI !
    Like I said … Time will tell all I guess.

    I’m off too the pool for a spot of sun with a nice Land Shark in hand….
    Damn ….the Pool Police just took my beer…

  • check

    I’m guessing all of you go out, work hard all day, and except no money in return. How else could you feel you’re entitled to other people’s work for free. This isn’t Star Trek, people actually have to make money in order to live. How can you claim to be a fan of these shows/movies and then not want the people who work to create them to make money? That will only cause them to stop making them. It’s not just the big studios and big name actors who lose money. It trickles down and greatly effects everyone from the set designer to make-up and wardrobe people. It’s not like all these people have other full time jobs where after they are done they say “hmmm, lets go make a tv show.” It takes an extreme amount of time and money to produce just one hour of television.

    • Guy

      Right. If you don’t like how much is being paid, stop purchasing the product. don’t steal it and then come up with all these excuses that it’s okay. I wonder how many people here are over the age of 21 and actually have jobs.

      My guess is not many.

      • Venturaforpresident

        probably a lot more would have if american greed didn’t kill the world economy

        • Guy

          So that makes stealing it okay? lol dude, just admit it- it’s wrong. Stop pussyfooting around taking someone else’s property like it’s debatable. Everyone has done it, but that doesn’t mean you have to pretend like you’re fighting some noble cause.

      • Gay

        First of all: Filesharing != Stealing
        Get yourself educated before rewriting the BS the industry taught you.
        Second: I just finished downloading EVERY psx game ever released in America. So what?! I’d never have bought any of those games, so please explain to me how this damaged anyone! And please say s.th. concrete and not “Pircy is evil!!!1″.

    • Venturaforpresident

      I’m sure the network executives worry terribly about wardrobe and makeup and actors as the sip champagne on the corporate jet. (that’s my point) There is a load of cash in the business and maybe the asshole that makes 200 million a year could live on 150? Naw probably not greed is a wicked master.

      • Guy

        So you wouldn’t illegally download anything created by a start-up company? What about low budget indie movies and videogames? Be real, it doesn’t matter who you download it from. You’re stealing property because it’s easy and you probably won’t get caught. Don’t try to seem like some white knight fighting the Man.

  • Venturaforpresident

    Just another example of america (world police) endearing themselves to the planet…isn’t living free great…in a country with the largest prison population in the world and now with 8 more…mmmm freedom, can you smell it? Think your free? Just try to get something for free then you will see how free you are.

  • Guy

    I think the people on this website honestly believe they are entitled to own illegal property. Hilarious.

    • Venturaforpresident

      you never copied a song or tv show in your life??? come on save the virtue for jesus.

      • Guy

        I never said I didn’t. But it’s certainly not my right and it obviously doesn’t belong to me. I know it’s wrong but I do it anyway because it’s easy and free. I’m not stupid enough to stand up for it though and pretend that it isn’t wrong. If all pirate websites go belly-up tomorrow it wouldn’t affect my life one bit.

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  • Paiger13

    they are going to get more time in prison then a murderer or child molester where is the justice in that!

  • VoiceOfReason

    What is wrong with you jerk offs? I can’t stand it when ignorant little twats try to justify their breaking of the law as being some fight against “the man”. I pirate as much stuff as the next guy, but I know it’s wrong.

    We all know MegaUpload was breaking the law, so why are you all fucking whining about them being called out on it? You all act like you are “entitled” to have access to content someone else has spent their money creating. If nobody paid for it – it would cease to exist.

    Fucking communists the lot of you.

    Oh and what’s with all the American hate? It’s Europe who’s screwing up the world economy at the moment. Instead of bitching and moaning about the US why don’t you make some fucking Greeks pay their taxes?

    • Gladi’mnotamerican

      “jerk offs” “Ignorant little twats” “communist” ya you sound like the typical american “voice of reason”…George W. is probably your hero…if you pulled your head out of your ass long enough to look at facts you would see that the world banks are crumbling from being scammed by american banks selling shitty debt…oh don’t worry all american hate is well earned throughout the world…I can’t wait until China comes to collect from all you assholes. Communists own you.

      • VoiceOfReason

        Awesome retort guy.

        No, I am not American. I just can’t take it when every problem in the world is blamed on them.

        “Twat” is an English expression by the way.

        Go back and play Modern Warfare on your Intel PC while eating Macca’s and drinking Coke. You’re so glad you’re not American.

        • Water

          I do not play modern warfare, i do not know what macca’s are and i drink water and juice, all from my own country. Just because you do all those things it doesn’t mean everbody in the world does the same. You sure do sound like an american or at least a brainwashed englishman.

        • Billyboinger

          Ya your momma’s twat!

      • Ghostapus

        Just incidentally, we’re glad you’re not American, too. Though it does sound as if you may have been educated here. If only more of your type were glad to be somewhere else….

        As regards Mega&c: It doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone that our incumbent president (Obama) is heavily reliant on Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry for campaign contributions. As a bloc, perhaps only the trial lawyers are a more reliable source of big-dollar gifts. And this is an election year. We’ll see how vigorously Internet piracy is pursued after November. But until then I wouldn’t expect much of a respite from the feds.

        • Billyboinger

          Proud of your country are you? Perhaps one day you shitheads can put your own flag on your backpack before you go to travel the world and stop displaying Canadian flags (witnessed personally multiple times) in order to get respect…and thank you for noticing I’m educated however if I was educated in your country I wouldn’t know anything else existed in the world…the shit they teach you, (Columbus discovered america, climate change isn’t happening, weapons of mass destruction) and you fools lap it up. You should try looking at real facts and making up your own minds instead of allowing your politicians and educators to keep bullshitting you. The democratic governments around the whole world are slowly and methodically taking away your rights and freedoms (since 9/11) and these are the first salvos in an attempt to control the internet in North America…copyright aside don’t let them do it. America used to stand for freedom and equality, a fair shake, a second chance, freedom of the press…now it’s torture, secret prisons, fencing boarders, illegal wars, fixed elections and fox news. It’s sad really…”fear the government that fears the people.”

      • Gorgeous George

        Without the United States of America all you have-nots would have to watch would be the BBC, news, and “football” – Hahahaha we very funny!!!!1 We Americans don’t blame you though, it’s only human nature to be jealous of your betters and wish they sucked as much as you. It brings to mind one of Aesop’s fables, The Fox Without A Tail. The only difference is that didn’t lose your proverbial tail, you were born without it. I’ve pasted the story below for those of you who never had an education.

        It happened that a Fox caught its tail in a trap, and in struggling to release himself lost all of it but the stump. At first he was ashamed to show himself among his fellow foxes. But at last he determined to put a bolder face upon his misfortune, and summoned all the foxes to a general meeting to consider a proposal which he had to place before them. When they had assembled together the Fox proposed that they should all do away with their tails. He pointed out how inconvenient a tail was when they were pursued by their enemies, the dogs; how much it was in the way when they desired to sit down and hold a friendly conversation with one another. He failed to see any advantage in carrying about such a useless encumbrance.

        “That is all very well,” said one of the older foxes; “but I do not think you would have recommended us to dispense with our chief ornament if you had not happened to lose it yourself.”

        • Gladi’mnotamerican

          Smoke another one Tex…if it’s one thing americans are good at is fables:
          fa·ble? ?[fey-buhl] Show IPA noun, verb, -bled, -bling.
          noun
          1.
          a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop’s fables.
          2.
          a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.
          3.
          a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents; legend: the fables of gods and heroes.
          4.
          legends or myths collectively: the heroes of Greek fable.
          5.
          an untruth; falsehood: This boast of a cure is a medical fable.
          EXPAND
          verb (used without object)
          8.
          to tell or write fables.
          9.
          to speak falsely; lie: to fable about one’s past.

        • Gorgeous George

          Aside from remarking upon the fact, this doesn’t even warrant a response.

    • Anonymous

      MegaUpload didn’t break the law. Users posting copyrighted content did.

      For file-hosting sites, detecting copyrighted files would require them to scan every file coming through their site. Companies like Google do this for Youtube, but it’s a dangerous precedent to start scanning *private* (i.e. not published, not searchable) generic files.

      I wouldn’t be happy with an internet where any special interest can force scanning my private files, just because they’re stored on the cloud. Yeah, it can be (and was obviously being) used for illegal activity, but that’s not a reason to take it down. It’s like shutting down the roads because they can be used by drug dealers.

      And yes, people who pirate films and songs are the internet equivalent of petty drug dealers – not a serious criminality issue. There are so many other areas of the internet that could do with proper legislation – real consumer rights (with refunds) for digital purchases, for example, to stop real abusers like Apple; who run a gigantic online retail operation with iTunes and the AppStore with basically no consumer rights whatsoever.

      • Anonymous

        So Apple is what’s wrong with world today? Grow the “F” up. This story has nothing to do with them. So get a life, and take your Apple-hating ass with you.

        To the non-haters out there, sorry for the rant. I felt it needed to be said.

        • Anonymous

          I’m certainly not an Apple hater, but like I said; it’s one example of an under-regulated part of the internet, and particularly in this context you could see how it would encourage piracy.

          Taiwan recently passed a law that required 7-day refunds on digital purchases. That seems like a far more positive way for lawmakers to spend their time and fight piracy: with guarantees that give consumers confidence to make digital purchases.

          There are plenty of positive ways to tackle this problem. Many of them are the fault of the movie industry itself.

          For those downloading movies, incompatible formats and DRM is another thing that should be tackled by digital consumer rights legislation; video formats are not as standardised as audio formats, and online stores continue to wrap videos in DRM. That reduces consumer confidence in parting with their cash, and promotes pirated alternatives.

          But more and more people are moving to streaming, and the problem there is that the industry is reluctant to give streaming rights (or unable to because of ancient contractual obligations). They can’t even hope to compete with the selection and immediate availability of pirate sites.

          Basically, any analysis of the problem from the perspective of the people doing it shows that it’s a market problem. Look at all the money MegaUpload made from premium accounts! The product these guys are offering at the moment is inadequate, which is why they’re being hurt by sinking revenues and increasing piracy. They need to respond by waking up and living in the 21st century, where we want immediate content and access from any device. Not by locking people up.

  • Confused in NC

    I just want my fecking MONEY BACK I paid for a Megaupload premium account!

  • Annie

    It seems megavideo or somebody who works at megavideo has started a new site: http://megavideo.cc/

    • Guest

      FAKE because Megaupload admins were arrested.

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  • HIPPY

    MEGAUPLOAD IS BACK UP AGAIN!!!

  • Joseph

    Look, everyone who is bashing the United States as a whole fails to realize that in any country there exists a certain level of governmental corruption. I am a US Citizen and I agree that this was an idiotic move by our government on various levels. Many of us have been working hard to inform our politicians of the consequences they face in decision surrounding SOPA and PIPA. We have held much ground against it. Not all Americans are so ignorant and arrogant as to believe the decisions we are making are correct. We are in a war. Its not The US vs the world. Its the the people vs the corporation. I pray MU can fight their way out of this and even if that is so, there will still be after effects of this poor decision. But simply being on a forum and complaining is not enough. Be active. Fight this. And know that there are Americans fighting with you.

  • Matti-Borg

    “We are all connected. The US represents over 30% of the entire worlds GDP. The US economy was wekened with the housing burst and everyone suffered. Imagine if the whole economy failed. Think life is tough now?” Its the us fault the us and jews slay em all with fire and nuclearbombs please! Also the cost of this investigation could really be spent on your homeless that apperently have risen in numbers the past years or in medical health for the countrys, actually the us should do what cuba and soviet did but in a less stupid fashion that would fix it all just rob the rich give to the poor and make it equal shares. Or it could be spent on making movies and music thats actually worth buying, who the fuck make music like lady gagas and expect to earn as much as they did at the 80s, 90s with bands like iron maiden, montley Gnr etc etc.And look at imdbs top 30 movies its 6 movies from the 2000 how the fuck do they expect to make the same money they did with good movies back at the 70s, 80s , 90s when they only produce crap shit and turd movies now days thats the ridicilus fucking retardness that i cant understand and then they excuse themself and blame the money loss on pirating when the fact is they only produce SHIT!!!!!!!!

    • Gorgeous George

      Dear Matti-Borg,

      Do us all a solid and just die already. :) Thanks!

      • Anonymous

        he has a point, modern movies and music sucks. Or do you like Justin Bieber?

        • Gorgeous George

          @ssj12: My comment was a response to his silly comment about “fire and nuclearbombs.”

          By your logic if someone likes modern movies and music it follows that they automatically like Justin Bieber. A village somewhere is missing its idiot, quick ssj12, run home! Good boy!

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  • Kmitocet

    Viva The Socialist States of America,
    Hurrah

    • come on

      Don’t forget New Zealand. They did make the arrests after all.

  • Dhsuzt

    he is guilty..yes !

  • Lawrence

    …And now everyone will begin using Filedropper.

  • common sense

    do you guys honestly think megaupload didn’t know 100% that their were pirated downloads happening by the second on their website? do you believe that if you create something you get rights for it and deserve to have it protected? do you believe that if someone breaks the law in another country they should be held accountable?

    if you believe any other those things then you believe megaupload is guilty and should be punished. and if you don’t believe those things, i bet you will as soon as it happen to YOU.

    • common sense

      sorry for the bad english

    • got teeth?

      does not matter what they knew or did not know, as long as they responded to dmca requests then they are immune to prosecution.

      is like my isp, they use a cache for storing frequently accessed files, they cannot be held liable for what is in there, but if requested they would have to remove the access to the material in question.

      if they are asked to remove the links to said material by the copyright holder, and they do, then they are covered by the dmca, just like everyone else.

      but now, because of the sheer number/amount of filesharing, they cant keep up with all these links and material being offered online, their own laws they created arent doing the job, they need a new way to get rid of it all in one swoop, sopa hasnt worked as expected so this is how it is accomplished.

      universal are upset, cause the artists they thought they had locked in, were starting to realise there is money to be made elsewhere.

      is just petty , and theyre using the worlds policing and court resources as a tool to make up for their failing business model.

      • common sense

        i don’t understand this. so if illegal things were happening on their website but they didn’t try to stop it it’s alright? i think that’s not good reasoning. and if they can’t keep up with what is legal and illegal doesn’t that make it incompetent? if they can’t figure out how to keep people from uploading pirated media are they not in the wrong? if you own a business then it is your problem to know if illegal things are happening and stop them. on this we may disagree

        • common sense

          also, i may be wrong, but doesn’t mu get most of it’s traffic from pirated things like movies and television? you are right that copyright holders can request to delete links, but some things are just obvious no? 150,000 downloads of adobe suite (or something like it) and no one notices or knows its illegal? they are playing a game i think, and you are playing too.

        • got teeth?

          many businesses exist in this world doing what the have to by law to survive and nothing more.

          universal media broke the law when it filed fake dmca requests to utube and disrupted a legitimate business venture.

          megaupload has broken no law.

        • got teeth?

          most of ferrari’s customers probably drive too fast too :D, doesnt mean they are liable.

        • Onetime

          Is because dotcom got greedy. If they had pulled all the copyrighted content all the time, then there’d be no good reason for a lot of people to use the service resulting in a lot less profit

      • common sense

        i see. but wouldn’t a better analogy be a pawn shop being shut-down because 60% of all the wares people brought in were stolen? maybe they weren’t doing anything illegal, but it doesn’t seem like the doj would build a case for two years without good evidence. idk

        • common sense

          i see. but wouldn’t a better analogy be a pawn shop being shut-down because 60% of all the wares people brought in were stolen? that i agree with. maybe they weren’t doing anything illegal, but it doesn’t seem like the doj would build a case for two years without good evidence. idk

    • common sense

      do you honestly think google doesn’t know 100% that their search engine is used to find illegal content? do you honestly think youtube doesn’t know 100% that their service is used to host illegal content? do you honestly think ISPs don’t know 100% that their service is used to download illegal content? (I could go on, but I’ll stop here) do you honestly think any of those services should be shut down because of this?
      do you believe that if you create s.th. you should sell all your rights to this creation to a big cooperation? A cooperation that will have these rights 100s of years after you, the creator, is dead and use it to sue poor students for millions of dollars.

      if you believe any of these things, I feel sorry for you.

  • timmy85

    This is BS. If you arrest the megaupload guys then you have to arrest the millions of other sites that are doing the same thing!

    • common sense

      would you like if they did this?

  • common sense

    this is a quote from an article i read. this is what they’re being accused of

    The core allegations against Kim Dotcom and his colleagues at MegaUpload, if true, make the case that company officials knew about the infringing activity and, rather than honoring requests from copyright holders to stop it, encouraged it. In addition to accusing executives (the indictment refers to them collectively as the “Mega Conspiracy”) of personally infringing, the indictment contends that the company copied videos wholesale from YouTube without permission, made duplicate links to content that would stay live after copyright holders forced the original link to be removed, and paid repeat infringers instead of banning them.

    if this is true it would be illegal no? if not the megaupload has nothing to worry about and i support them 100%. i will withhold judgement until a trial so i don’t look stupid for backing the wrong horse

    • got teeth?

      illegal or not, i supprt megaupload 10,000%.

      you should do the same, is not about the filesharing, is about internet freedom my friend.

      • common sense

        i don’t believe internet freedom and piracy are the same thing.

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  • RbrtR420

    nothing yet about Fileserve. They closed there affiliates program. and went on a massive deleting spree from what i heard yesterday

  • americans are fucktards

    drop a fkn nuke on america and do the rest of the world a favour.

    • Gorgeous George

      Another have-not. Yawn…

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  • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

    This advice for ACTION may help a little … maybe -

    **
    Uploaders to MU need to ask their elected politician(s) to restore the site without further delay as their work is being unlawfully blocked by the Federal Agency action to seize the site and lock it down. Compensation should be sought too.

    **
    Uploaders NOT resident in the USA (or its territories) should do the above but ask them to complain to the USA directly and to the local US embassy, as well as your own parliament.

    **
    Downloaders also need to complain to your politician(s), but highlight the specific inconvenience you suffer and also ask you be compensated for that inconvenience (specially if you’re a paying account holder with MU).

    NB
    The amount of cash loss you suffer (of any) as an individual may not be much, but multiply that by the 15 million users of MU and your complaint and request for compensation will add up and start to make a HUGE impact.

  • MUPLOADFTW

    the only reason the government care is because they are losing the tax money from these sales. ID Chief is on the same exact level as megaupload and they could shut it down if they wanted to just as easily. but they’re not going to because they wont make any money from it. viva la russia

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  • http://twitter.com/XB99Z XB99Z

    Blame the vile and greedy “people” of Hollywood and the thugs at the FBI. Action will be taken against the FBI and the scum of Hollywood for this. The FBI are just criminals absolutely nothing else.

  • Upyours

    First of all the US did create the foundation for the internet. Look shit up before you speak

    “The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), was the world’s first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. The network was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense for use by its projects at universities and research laboratories in the US. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory.[1]”

    Secondly (main point). Mega upload was promoting pirating of US made Movies and TV shows. They did not own those shows/movies/music. Those properties, like it or not, are owned by the powers that be in Hollywood. They have every right to protect their properties, as much as you would expect if someone came into your house and started stealing your shit. Don’t like it? Quit watching the movies and TV shows. Start your own studio and give your work away for free.

    All of you people talking shit about USA. Fuck off. We have helped all of your countries repeatedly over the past 200 years. Funny, all of the people here talking shit about Americans being arrogant, yet your own self righteous arrogance thinks it is fine to steal. You have simply changed the term “stealing” with ‘sharing”.

    • Guest

      USA is a fucking terrorist country. FUCK YOU!

    • Gladi’mnotamerican

      In reference to your final paragraph;

      200 years ago, this year, we burned down your fucking White House because you invaded us, 200 years ago your people were still “helping” slaves come to america…? The last country in the world to abolish slavery, aahh the american dream. The more you try to defend your ignorance the easier it is to label you arrogant. Learn more than your politicians and brain-washers tell you but you will have to get off your fat ass and read a book or two…

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  • WPanther83

    If you all would like to see what it might be coming to then just go and watch the movie “V for Vendetta” and then get the Book and read it. and then try and tell me that is how you want to live.

    • WPanther83

      Evey Hammond
      “My father was a writer. You would’ve liked him. He used to say that artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.”
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      V
      “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

  • Trelew

    This is clear and present view on how corrupt our governments around the world have become by Big Business. Governments don’t care about people cause they dance to the tune of the corporate elite!

    What will happen here is that they will have a show trial against MEGA, make sure that the media will be spinning the corporate message, lies will be abound MEGA, and they will be hung out to dry as an example of who really is in control. Not the governments, not our courts, but the corporate elite of Big Business.

  • Miriam

    We talking here, without power of move, from the comfort of our home, act and show. Look my original country 25-30 years ago – Poland! Look what happend there, Working people have more power than govermants, but we have to be conected together like five fingers are conected to one hand, maybe we need to make a fist… to let the goverment understand where is the place of them and who is giving them the BREAD to eat.

  • Safety

    I wonder, if the US doesn’t export anything anymore, as some people from the US claimed in some posts here, why do all foreign countries (except for ‘real’ Rogue States like North Korea and Iran) give in to any demands of the US government, when being threatened with US trade embargos?

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  • Mal

    Gees, like closing down Napster and Limewire really stopped mp3 sharing…Chances are you could go to any FBI employee and find unpaid for, copyrighted material on their computers. Fortunately the internet is extremely resilient. Big though megaupload was, shutting them down is but a drop in the ocean. After you’ve read this maybe a hundred gigabytes has been sucessfully transferred between peoples computers, who knows maybe half of it is copyrighted material. Americas has spent billions of tax payers dollars fighting drugs, but today, drugs are on the streets everywhere. It seems the FBI has a new war on its hands now, and yes unfortunately American tax payers will yet again pay the price for another war which cannot be won. What’s that? They’re going to shutdown the internet? Mass riots will prevail. Hollywood, get a life, if you don’t want pirating, don’t release them on dvd if it means that much to you. Or make a disc that can’t be copied. So far all your methods of protection like macrovision, css encryption – are an epic failure. Not to mention you’re stupid region codes. A disgrace. Pay your actors less if you can’t afford the cost of copyright infringments. Well must go, my next download just finished from some Russian site. Cya!

  • Juanm_82

    This might sound dumb but can we make another internet? one outside of the laws that are already written and will be written? Can we close shop and open under a new name? is that possible? hmmmm

    • Worlockz

      WOW . Megaupload. Well i would fight by insisting if they are guilty than YouTube.com is even more so guilty. If YOUTUBE is allowed to commit these crimes so should MegaUpload. Wake up people the duality of law needs to go.

    • Gorgeous George

      China is in the process of making a separate Internet last I heard, you can move there if you like but I’m sure it will be censored too. :)

    • Naturalwhite0331

      the have made several already. TOR being one of them. Not quite a seperate internet but pretty much the same.

  • Gdthinkn99

    This might sound out there and a little off topic, but I have to put my opinion forward.

    The bottom line is this was not about copyright infringment at all. This whole masquerade is about freedom of information and it is not only the U.S involved. Most of the governments are. Megaupload was on the list of their many targets. This is the snowball effect, today it is megaupload tomorrow it will be another entity with more power that is not playing ball with the government. The governments don’t want people to speak up for themselves and make their opinions known. They want you to PAY to hear, witness and read that information from a source that they APPROVE of.
    Sensationalism is a term used in todays media often and unfortunately it happens all the time.
    Hollywood has the American politicians in their back pockets and they figured ‘eh why not kill to birds with one stone’ easy right??……. Not if their charges don’t stick and if they do, then let’s hope they are real.

  • V 4 VENDETTA

    They the Americanos government are fighting a war to keep the dirty filthy rich even richer. They don’t care about their own people. Look at how many of their own people are struggling to make ends meet. What are they really doing for their own people? Shit to intellectual property crap.

    “COPYRIGHT IS A VIOLATION OF OUR HUMAN RIGHTS, OUR RIGHTS TO FREE AND ALTERNATIVE CONTENTS!!”

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  • OneTime

    Dotcom basically stole a ton of cash from it’s premium users when mega’s reward program was discontinued, when he failed to pay them the cash for points earned. No wonder he alone earned an estimated $47 in 2010. I wonder how much of that was the potential points rightfully owed to mega’s users. Personally he owes me about $1000 in points and premium accounts that still had up to 3 years remaining.

    I know there are countless thousands of other users who have suffered a similar fate

    In light of these simple realities I think he’s a fat greedy pig and deserves whatever comes to him.

    Peace

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  • Crow Stantonp

    i am starting to hate these laws!

    • Anonymous

      This is not the law but a bully Government abusing the law through lying to us all.

      The truth is that the United States made DMCA law and now they hate businesses like Mega using it because DMCA law does not offer the level of enforcement they would like.

      That also highlights why SOPA wanted to change DMCA law to remove the “safe harbour” protection.

  • Ajlmacleod

    Hackers of the world unite and give the yanks a real war on terror

    • Anonymous

      They already have.

      The news media seems to be ignoring when sites get hacked or another 10,000 batch of service user/passwords get released.

  • Proud American

    America rocks compared to all of your crappy little European countries that wouldnt exist if it wasnt for the US…. All you damn brits and French need to remember WW2…. We saved your ass in the end and appreciate that your whole continent would of been ruled by Hitler and CO had it not been for us….. Sucks about Mega though, thats what this blog was about right?

    • Proud means uneducated

      America only entered the war because of japan,