Megaupload.com shutdown by feds and owners have been charged - GoFuckYourself.com

Cystomatic · 01-19-2012, 01:00 PM

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Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.

The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...3#.Txh2Qm9SROV

I was never expecting that to happen :O

arock10 · 01-19-2012, 01:03 PM

just saw this, fucking wild

BIGTYMER · 01-19-2012, 01:04 PM

Holy shit!

Phillipmcd1 · 01-19-2012, 01:05 PM

wow
123

jMEGA · 01-19-2012, 01:05 PM

I wonder if filesonic is next.....

st0ned · 01-19-2012, 01:05 PM

Wild for sure. Reminds me of the poker bullshit with the DOJ.

This I can see as being productive, the poker thing not so much.

BIGTYMER · 01-19-2012, 01:06 PM

Where did you read he was arrested?

lucas131 · 01-19-2012, 01:07 PM

holy fucking cow now where i will go for my daily gigabytes of porn?

Emil · 01-19-2012, 01:09 PM

Where should the n1gg3r celebs in their promo-video upload their files now?

Cystomatic · 01-19-2012, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

Where did you read he was arrested?

Well not arrested, but they have been charged with violating piracy laws.

seeric · 01-19-2012, 01:09 PM

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...=1769&bih=1020

This guy is notorious. Been doing this a LONNNNNNNNG time. Megarotic anyone?

Tons of other sites.

lucas131 · 01-19-2012, 01:10 PM

now the guy is a realy megabrain, if i will run site like that, i will not move my ass out of seycheles

XPays · 01-19-2012, 01:11 PM

that's huge

NewNick · 01-19-2012, 01:18 PM

I had a strange premonition this was going to happen when they had their bank accounts closed.

seeme · 01-19-2012, 01:18 PM

crazy, thats one big network of sites gone....

Failed · 01-19-2012, 01:20 PM

Megaupload goes down, Mallick and Melissa are claiming to repay, Manwin takes over, 2012 is the year of the M's!

uno · 01-19-2012, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by lucas131

holy fucking cow now where i will go for my daily gigabytes of porn?

filesonic, wupload, oron, filepost, depositfiles, letitbit, uploadstation, hotfile, etc etc etc.

Rapidshare
Megaupload
Hotfile
FileSonic
Wupload
Uploaded
Letitbit
Extabit
FileServe
Mediafire
Depositfiles
Netload
Crocko
Filefactory
Badongo
4shared
Przeklej
Dump
Uploading
Storage
Megashares
Furk
4FastFile
UploadBox
GoldFile
GigaSize
Enterupload
TurboBit
Diglo
HitFile
Oron
Kickload
ZippyShare
SoundCloud
BitShare
PiggyShare
UploadStation
FreakShare
x7
SpeedyShare
Fyels

scottybuzz · 01-19-2012, 01:22 PM

would like to hear what gideon has to say about this.

BIGTYMER · 01-19-2012, 01:22 PM

Should be a good sales day.

B.Barnato · 01-19-2012, 01:23 PM

Kim Schmitz is an extremely shady character who has always seen himself above the law. Nice.

scottybuzz · 01-19-2012, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by uno

filesonic, wupload, oron, filepost, depositfiles, letitbit, uploadstation, hotfile, etc etc etc.

they are going to be pissing their panties now.

BIGTYMER · 01-19-2012, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Failed

Megaupload goes down, Mallick and Melissa are claiming to repay, Manwin takes over, 2012 is the year of the M's!

Contacting Eric now to get my nick changed to MIGTYMER.

FlexxAeon · 01-19-2012, 01:25 PM

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The WSJ says seven Megaupload employees are under arrest, with four already locked down?four of them in New Zealand!

http://gizmodo.com/5877612/feds-kill-megaupload

OneHungLo · 01-19-2012, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by scottybuzz

they are going to be pissing their panties now.

No doubt. I'm willing to bet you will see A LOT of them quietly close up shop.

They don't call it the "long arm of the law" for nothing.

newB · 01-19-2012, 01:31 PM

Wasn't there a similar story a month or so ago about 3 20-somethings who ran a popular site for sharing/disbursing copyrighted content?

I remember one of them, a girl I think, saying what they were doing was not illegal because it was a "legal gray area".

FlexxAeon · 01-19-2012, 01:32 PM

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The US Justice Department said that Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and three others were arrested in New Zealand at the request of US officials. It added that two other defendants were still at large

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

PiracyPitbull · 01-19-2012, 01:32 PM

Excellent news.

Cystomatic · 01-19-2012, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by FlexxAeon

http://gizmodo.com/5877612/feds-kill-megaupload

I'm pretty sure one of these 7 was Kim Schimitz, as he lives in new-zealand.

FlexxAeon · 01-19-2012, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Cystomatic

I'm pretty sure one of these 7 was Kim Schimitz, as he lives in new-zealand.

yep according to the BBC quote

Spudstr · 01-19-2012, 01:37 PM

There is more to this.

5 hours ago megaupload file a countersuit against UMG and an hour ago the FEDS shut down megaupload

isn't it ironniccccc?

Paul&John · 01-19-2012, 01:39 PM

wow nice

Failed · 01-19-2012, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

Contacting Eric now to get my nick changed to MIGTYMER.

This is the year of MIGTYMER and Mailed.

NewNick · 01-19-2012, 01:43 PM

Now we need Damian in here saying there is nothing you can do about piracy.

Adapt or ?

moeloubani · 01-19-2012, 01:43 PM

kind of sucks how someone can get arrested halfway across the world just because the US says they did something wrong

not only that but their website gets shut down and they start getting punished before they ever have a chance to fight back in court - dont like that at all

i thought the DMCA laws were supposed to handle this kind of stuff?

MaDalton · 01-19-2012, 01:43 PM

Dr. Kimble on the run - again

he had been doing jail time already, he clearly didn't learn from that

Edit: I'm glad I chose MaDalton as nick :D

OneHungLo · 01-19-2012, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by moeloubani

kind of sucks how someone can get arrested halfway across the world just because the US says they did something wrong

not only that but their website gets shut down and they start getting punished before they ever have a chance to fight back in court - dont like that at all

i thought the DMCA laws were supposed to handle this kind of stuff?

Says it was a 2 year investigation...Maybe their employees were uploading stuff, who knows.

scottybuzz · 01-19-2012, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by moeloubani

kind of sucks how someone can get arrested halfway across the world just because the US says they did something wrong

not only that but their website gets shut down and they start getting punished before they ever have a chance to fight back in court - dont like that at all

i thought the DMCA laws were supposed to handle this kind of stuff?

when you piss on someone's face for 6 years + the law goes out the window.

pornguy · 01-19-2012, 01:48 PM

Note To Morons that think because they are outside the US they are out of reach to the US federal Government. They arrested 2 people in New Zealand at the request of US authorities.

signupdamnit · 01-19-2012, 01:48 PM

( Hopefully this video has some sort of permission to be posted on youtube after three years or I suppose this might seem rather hypocritical

)

BIGTYMER · 01-19-2012, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Failed

This is the year of MIGTYMER and Mailed.

OneHungLo · 01-19-2012, 01:51 PM

If they had employees uploading content and what not, wouldn't that violate DMCA? And I would think that would be where the racketeering and criminal conspiracy to commit copyright infringement come in.

HomerSimpson · 01-19-2012, 01:54 PM

gr8 news...

PR_Sebas · 01-19-2012, 01:55 PM

"When I want to send files across the globe --- I use Megaupload"

Idiot.

ProG · 01-19-2012, 01:56 PM

Official report has all names listed

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/pre...t-infringement

OneHungLo · 01-19-2012, 01:58 PM

Business model sounds familiar...

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The indictment states that the conspirators conducted their illegal operation using a business model expressly designed to promote uploading of the most popular copyrighted works for many millions of users to download. The indictment alleges that the site was structured to discourage the vast majority of its users from using Megaupload for long-term or personal storage by automatically deleting content that was not regularly downloaded. The conspirators further allegedly offered a rewards program that would provide users with financial incentives to upload popular content and drive web traffic to the site, often through user-generated websites known as linking sites. The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicized their links to users throughout the world.

In addition, by actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicize infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicize such content on the Megaupload site. Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users.

As alleged in the indictment, the conspirators failed to terminate accounts of users with known copyright infringement, selectively complied with their obligations to remove copyrighted materials from their servers and deliberately misrepresented to copyright holders that they had removed infringing content. For example, when notified by a rights holder that a file contained infringing content, the indictment alleges that the conspirators would disable only a single link to the file, deliberately and deceptively leaving the infringing content in place to make it seamlessly available to millions of users to access through any one of the many duplicate links available for that file.
The indictment charges the defendants with conspiring to launder money by paying users through the sites? uploader reward program and paying companies to host the infringing content.

http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz...tigate/?p=2223

Socks · 01-19-2012, 02:00 PM

What other sites did they run? Are they all down or just the main?

MaDalton · 01-19-2012, 02:05 PM

oh these evil germans...

incredibleworkethic · 01-19-2012, 02:06 PM

Perfect, keep shutting down piracy sites!

Cystomatic · 01-19-2012, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Socks

What other sites did they run? Are they all down or just the main?

All of their sites/domains have been seized.

go to cum.com, it's down as well, all of their sites are down

Adult Insider Dave · 01-19-2012, 02:16 PM

Bout fucking time. Sad it took so long TBH.

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