It is always darkest before the dawn and it has been pretty fucken dark lately.

No doubt there WILL be more prosecutions. Do you want to have your ass hanging in the wind if you are on the list of big pirate sites?

This is good news. The more of these thieves they shut down the better.

LOL well that includes A LOT of people here on GFY who own illegal tubes. :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Will he be speaking with his cousin who runs Wupload?

they're fucked. the feds dont lose RICO cases.

Mega is probably guilty as fuck but they shuttered someones business a year ago that was cleared of all charges. After the government stalled the court case, never gave them the info that was legally requested, refused to drop the shit and put them out of business. :thumbsup

http://gizmodo.com/5877715/all-the-i...s-crazy-owners

Cars. Lots of cars:

2010 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG, VIN WDD2120772A103834, LicensePlate No. "STONED";73.
2010 Mini Cooper S Coupe, VIN WMWZG32000TZ03651, License PlateNo. "V";74.
2010 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, VIN WDC1641772A608055, LicensePlate No. "GUILTY";75.
2007 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG, VIN WDD2163792A025130, LicensePlate No. "KIMCOM";76.
2009 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, VIN WDC1641772A542449, LicensePlate No. "MAFIA";77.
2010 Toyota Vellfire, VIN 7AT0H65MX11041670, License Plate Nos."WOW" or "7";78.
2011 Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG, VIN WDB4632702X193395, LicensePlate Nos. "POLICE" or "GDS672";79.
2011 Toyota Hilux, VIN MR0FZ29G001599926, License PlateNo. "FSN455";80.
Harley Davidson Motorcycle, VIN 1HD1HPH3XBC803936, LicensePlate No. "36YED";81.
2010 Mercedes-Benz CL63 AMG, VIN WDD2163742A026653, LicensePlate No. "HACKER";82.
2005 Mercedes-Benz A170, VIN WDD1690322J184595, License PlateNo. "FUR252";83.
2005 Mercedes-Benz ML500, VIN WDC1641752A026107, License PlateNo. DFF816
1957 Cadillac El Dorado, VIN 5770137596;86.
2010 Sea-Doo GTX Jet Ski, VIN YDV03103E010;87.
1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, VIN 59F115669;88.
Von Dutch Kustom Motor Bike, VIN 1H9S14955BB451257;89.
2006 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM, VIN WDB2094421T067269;90.
2010 Mini Cooper S Coupe, VIN WMWZG32000TZ03648 LicensePlate No. "T";
1989 Lamborghini LM002, VIN ZA9LU45AXKLA12158, License PlateNo. "FRP358";92.
2011 Mercedes-Benz ML63, VIN 4JGBB7HB0BA666219

A lot of cars for seven guys. How about some dubious art?

Artwork, Predator Statue;
Artwork, Anonymous Hooded Sculpture

Predator statue?

But wouldn't be a kingpin operation without gadgets. And they had those too:

Sharp LC-65XS1M 65" LCD TV
Sharp LC-65XS1M 65" LCD TV
TVLogic 56" LUM56W TV
Sharp 108" LCD Display TV
Sharp 108" LCD Display TV
Sony PMW-F3K Camera S/N 0200231;101.
Sony PMW-F3K Camera S/N 0200561;
Samsung 820DXN 82" LCD TV
Samsung 820DXN 82" LCD TV
Samsung 820DXN 82" LCD TV

As BF would say, they are all strangers to me. :)

I believe if they all went down tomorrow my profits would skyrocket as conversions would tighten big time across all affil programs.

SE traffic would go up big time.

But they are here. No probs with legal tubes.

I doubt tubes will get touched at all. They want these multi-file sharing sites/forums that also share all TV, movies ect.

http://in.vu/images/screenziz.png

Over 25million recent links now useless, 300Million historical links wiped out.

This will annoy the fuck out of all the sites linking to the site too, which is a good thing. There are heaps of forums and sites dedicated to Megaupload links... I hope they suffer too.

You stupid shits think you will sell more porn are you really that dumb? These free loaders would have NEVER paid for your shitty porn lol, you should have marketed shit to them that they WOULD BUY. How the fuck you people run a "business" is beyond me.

I think they have something like a 90%+ conviction rate because most will plead out rather than to take a risk at trial and face a 30 or 40 yr sentence.

They run from business. :2 cents:

i gotta get me one of these

Mega Upload

LMFAO at people here who've never downloaded so much as a single mp3 they didn't have the 'right' to download. Hilarious.

Yes, that's how it works with 'crime'; when someone gets busted everyone else just gives up.

It's just as easy to pirate now as it was yesterday. It'll be even easier 'tomorrow'.

It's about piracy, but they're stupid because they seriously delude themselves that this kind of thing has any positive benefit whatsoever for them. Anti-piracy crusaders, like 99.9% of everyone else, do not give a single fuck about pornographers. And yet morons here actually seem to think this is about them in some way.

Though to be fair, some morons are just cheering because they were jealous of MU's success.

But my point was, let's say you own one of the sites that is on the "list". You are in the US, Canada*, Great Britain* or US friendly countries.

You made your money. Do you want to dangle that site in front of the DOJ with your name attached. Give up all your money when it is seized? All your property when it is confiscated? Do hard time?

When more prosecutions come down I would not be surprised to see some file sharing sites fold.

* Thought I would draw the Canooks and Brits in. :) Jurisdiction may not be there with the US but I would not be so sure. And I still would take my butt off the chopping block.

"From on or about November 25, 2006, through on or about July 2011,the PayPal, Inc. account for the Mega Conspiracy has received in excess of $110,000,000 from subscribers and other persons associated with Mega Conspiracy."

Eeek

It is when they realize they could be looking at 50 yrs in a federal pen. I can guarantee you there a are a few guys that will not be sleeping well tonight.

smart crimies know that if they are operating the way that the busted one did, they exit and/or re-organize :2 cents:

piracy is not new and will never go away. the problem here (and what hurts business) is with how blatant, rampant, and easily accessible it is

Megaupload is gone what will be next

This is true. Lots of shit will no longer sell but the stuff that marginally sells will sell better. It won't sell worse.

So win some lose some. Pirates had their day. It is ending very tragicly for some of the Long John Silvers.

DOJ doesnt fuck around and these guys will lose all assets to pay restitution and will get hard time to set an example.

gre8 thread I am loooooooooooooooooving it!! :thumbsup

I do have some advise for the big file sharing sites: (uno posted a nice list in one of these threads)

Hit the delete key now :1orglaugh

Some probably will think twice, though others will just see an opening/opportunity to fill a void here. Whenever I've heard about drug crimelords, or organized criminals of any kind, who got busted after getting rich, I think why didn't they just give up after their first several million?

Maybe they're idiots, or maybe, like 'legit' billionaires, the money is just a byproduct of them doing what they like doing. Either way filesharing sites will not stop, especially when they not in and of themselves illegal or criminal.

Edit: And good luck giving 50 years to someone from a country that does not bend over and take it from Uncle Sam, the way US satellite states like NZ or the UK do.

i see he's still hiding his Rolls Royce somewhere...

Kim Schmitz loves to drive around like the idiot he is...

https://youtube.com/results?searc...359l4.5.1l10l0

Right, that's why SOPA wanted to cut off the DNS which is in America.

Fucken A. These sites is where all the pie went.

MU thought they were either legit, above the law, smarter than the law, or a mixture thereof. not necessarily the same as a drug boss who KNOWS they are breaking the law,... a primary function of their business is to avoid detection.

feds taking down MU was just as much about the message as it was about stopping the crime. and, unless they are idiots, the people with the same 'business models' as MU will hear the message and restructure or GTFO

oron is still up

They wouldn't pay for any art bro, that art shit is copyrighted.

:1orglaugh

Here's what I don't get :

People say "I would never buy that crap anyway".
But why do they spend all day for months downloading this worthless crap?

:1orglaugh

they are coming to get em :thumbsup

Wow down.

If you made some decent change and you have a major file sharing site, I d say fuck it and pull the plug.

Living in the US and having sites on the net is super transparent.

Plus who knows, obviously they have copies of the site long ahead plus all the rest so maybe it's too late to pull the plug. But you show the judge good faith when you realized something might be a tad illegal.

Better advice: Get a good suitcase and take a slow boat to China.

Maybe they are legit. They have not been found guilty of anything.

The mistake is to assume that if you take out a file sharing site you're going to stop people sharing files. It simply will not make a difference to piracy. But that's beside the point anyway; it's quite obvious that a lot of people cheering about this were simply jealous of the money made by the people running MU.

I'm wondering if MU was shut down less because of Megaupload, which is AFAIK is no different to many other fileshare sites, and more because of Megavideo. I personally never ever used MU but used MV frequently.

Indictment will be unsealed soon :2 cents:

Your right about the organized crime, a lot of major drug dealers do it not just for the money but also because it's what they do best and some of them don't really know how to live a life without crime. They like everything that comes along with the money (well except for the getting caught part, but even then most accept it and just consider it a part of the game).

Told ya gideongallery...Tick tock...time is up for fucking thieves.

Very very true, but nonetheless, companies with similar business models have to be calculating 'maybe they aren't, and if they aren't....' etc. The years they could be waiting for the judgement to come down on MU, continuing "business as usual" are years that can/will be used against them if MU is found guilty. Think back to the early 2257 busts. It's the same thing - a "get your shit together" message.

Like I said - I agree that this doesn't stop piracy, but it is still a message to sites that enable piracy. And that can make a difference. Jealousy? Yeah maybe we all are envious of the fast and easy money they made. Same as with drug lords and such....until you get to the jail part :1orglaugh