Megaupload, shut down by FBI.

The American government.... self proclaimed police of the world >.> I think they went too far on this one. The site has been running for years and doing this and the wait till NOW?

Smells of money to me >.> Soon the banner will change from "We will fight the terrorists" to the next big thing "we will fight the INTERNET". This is stupidity incarnate.

EDIT: Took Anonymous long enough, but i guess they are a little pissed of now LOL

nooooooooooooooo.... this is war people...

I will not. I had over 700gig of VN's uploaded, and i really don't feel like doing it again.

It's up to Fakku's new generation of uploaders to fix this.

I was actually not expecting a direct response, but it alleviates my worries. Many of your VN's were downloaded alot, so I'm sure someone has them somewhere. Lets just hope they are feeling charitable enough to share...

There's a guy from Britain who will likely to be extradited to the USA to face charges for copyright infringement. With shit like that already going down, I'm not et all surprised by what Washington pulls nowadays.

RIP MU...
You were a damn good site to get VN's and other good shit.

*listens to "Its So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"*

Is there a link somewhere that might say how many TBs of data have been wiped from the raids? Or if MU had some sort of geographical redundancy?

You can still access their frontpage through this ip: http://109.236.83.66/ if you're lucky enough, as it doesn't seem to have enough bandwidth to support everyone connecting through it at the moment. If anyone manages to download a file by modifying the URL, do reply!

MegaUpload taken down by Feds? Feds taken down by Anonymous.

Won't it just get overturned like thepiratebay incident?

This does seem exactly like the whole piratebay thing a while back.

But seriously, I'm embarrassed to call myself an American now-a-days. Thanks government. Use your resources to help the sick, educate more children, feed the hungry, end poverty, or anything productive you bastards.

List so far

justice.gov
universalmusic.com
riaa.org
mpaa.org
copyright.gov
hadopi.fr
wmg.com
usdoj.gov
bmi.com
fbi.gov

QFT

Is that source reliable.

OT:
There goes a lot of epic stuff.
I don't usually download there but it's a reliable DDL site.

[size=10]Copy Pasted from my post in IB.[/h]

Don't mix anti-piracy with censorship. If you are after a drug vendor, you disable his means of distribution (such as intercepting shipments or confiscating his goods). Similarly, to stop a pirate, you disable their means of distribution, which in this case means shutting down their servers. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG with doing so. If there was a street in Hong Kong that sells predominantly stolen goods, does one legitimate shop on that street mean that the street can't be "shut down"? The most logical thing is for the legit shop owner to not set up shop there in the first place.

Most people say that the wording in SOPA/PIPA is "extremely vague", but has anyone actually read the legislation for themselves? Or is this just a case of "I oppose it because everyone else does and it's cool 'stick it to the man'"? I think it's the latter. I oppose SOPA/PIPA, but I think most people are opposing it for the wrong reasons. Shortly put, I don't support censorship, but I DO support Anti-Piracy and so should you if you want quality content.

Arresting a non-US citizen outside of US soil is definitely not cool (although it is nice that the New Zealand police actually DID something this time of International significance), but anyone who claims that Megaupload or any of the other file-sharing sites don't predominantly host pirated material is just lying to themselves. 99% of the stuff on Megaupload infringe copyright, and the owners of Megaupload are making millions off the site. Shutting down the site and seizing the culprits were perfectly justified actions.

For those of you who complain that Megaupload was a good Internet locker, can you honestly say that you never once used it for piracy? And Dropbox is better anyway. If you need a professional Internet locker for your occupation, it pains me to say that your business probably isn't in the best of shape if you don't pay a few dollars a year for Dropbox and opt to use Megaupload instead. MU's interface is far more obstructive for both you and your customers, not to mention the inconvenience.

the VN section is going to be messy...

Is there a chance that megaupload will be back? sites like piratebay manage to stay around, but megaupload is a paid service

Oh... so apparently all the feds did, was take out the domain. Makes sense, since they can't actually touch the servers as they're not located in the US. This is actually how SOPA would've operated.

Tip: if you have something on megaupload, just replace the start of the URL (megaupload.com) with the address above and it might work.

EDIT: NOPE. Apparently the links are broken... I wonder if the files too are gone as well.

I agree, even though I usually torrent stuff, it is reliable..

are you kidding me!?!