Megaupload is down.

Is the FBI SOPA in disguise? :P

Kimo Force wrote:

Now as much as they have been fighting with us against the new copyright threats to come, remember that they are still as dangerous to us as they are to them

How exactly?

Btw, lately megaupload would be used less and less for piracy for the simple reason that they had gotten stricter in taking down content that violated copyrights, obviously it was user responsibility as they would take down copyrighted content upon being notified of it and obviously they are held liable for something they were actually working to prevent from happening.

Also note that not only are they facing 55 years in prison for piracy, which means a minor financial crime, but they were also arrested by U.S. law in New Zealand. Not in the United States. Once again for a minor financial crime, and again, yes piracy is a minor one, you are neither directly taking the money from the victim nor is it fraud and "more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners" is bullshit since you can't count how much they would have gotten if it was not for Megaupload, but just without megaupload they certainly would have not gotten that much more. So for a minor financial crime the U.S. government apparently has authority to arrest people outside of their country. Not for a commonly accepted crime, but for a crime they define and for their own financial interests.

And as kimo noted, apparently minor losses in their copyright earnings (yes, minor, if they were major they would be shut down) are worth 55 years of a person's freedom. "Invaluable" my ass, this is capitalism.

f*ck...my fav file sharing site is gone :=

Guys, I saw this misconception a couple of times already that was saying FBI took it down, not SOPA.
SOPA is a law, FBI enforces laws
Even if it was for SOPA, the action could still be taken by the FBI to enforce SOPA, the FBI works by the laws, they don't invent their own, and SOPA is a law, it's not something that enforces laws.

99nour wrote:

I PUT A " :P " THERE FOR A REASON, GET OVER IT!

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yes, that's the issue, the fact they thought you were serious, not that you proposed the idea a law can be disguised into an agency

hm so this is why 2012 is the end of the world huh, no more internet *cuts wrists*

Ehh... I hardly used it. Good buy Mega Upload. Glad to have seen you twice in your life before you died...

Btw

A min of silence for mega upload

0 min if you had a premium account =]

^

I support this message.

But yeah. I wonder if the premium users got their money back or something.

Nope, I have not received any sort of refund from Megaupload for my premium, but now I do fear being tracked for my downloads now.

I doubt they will get so far with that unless you've been doing some hardcore copyright breaking.

Multi-million dollar company, that. They're gonna have a couple years' worth of tracking to do.

this is a shame, i dont really know the us or new zeland law, but about internationlal law the general rule is that you can only judge a person from another conuntry if they comited a crime agaisnt the intersets of your caountry, it they are origanally your nationals or the crime is comited against your people and if the crime comited is also part of the law sistem in the one the person was living, in this case you could put it on the first category, but the other rules about extradition states that you cant give someone a sentence bigger that the they can get in the country they live (i seriously doubt new zeland gives 55 years of prision for that kind of things) so i find it very fishy but well, there is really nothing to do now, bye megaupload