Megaupload.com shutdown by feds and owners have been charged
 

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

I was never expecting that to happen :O

just saw this, fucking wild

Holy shit!

wow
123

I wonder if filesonic is next.....

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.

Where did you read he was arrested?

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

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

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

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.

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

that's huge

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

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

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

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

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

Should be a good sales day. :)

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

they are going to be pissing their panties now.

Contacting Eric now to get my nick changed to MIGTYMER. :winkwink:

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.

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".

Excellent news.

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

yep according to the BBC quote

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?

wow nice

This is the year of MIGTYMER and Mailed.

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

Adapt or ?

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?

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

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

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

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.

( Hopefully this video has some sort of permission to be posted on youtube after three years or I suppose this might seem rather hypocritical :1orglaugh )

:thumbsup :1orglaugh