Megaupload.com shut down by the feds

how long until David Fincher makes a movie of his life story? Panic Room, firearms, and a SWAT breach. has Fincher all over it.

goodbye filesonic, fileserve and uploaded.to

http://www.smh.com.a...0125-1qhck.html

  On 1/25/2012 at 10:40 PM, eugene said:

goodbye filesonic, fileserve and uploaded.to

http://www.smh.com.a...0125-1qhck.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

What about the kid discovering music right now? What about those who want to learn how to produce music? You think their parents are going to buy them all the digital music they want? You think they'll buy him the 1000 $ ableton license? Fuck this shit. This is bad for humanity in all aspects.

  On 1/25/2012 at 10:40 PM, eugene said:

goodbye filesonic, fileserve and uploaded.to

http://www.smh.com.a...0125-1qhck.html

The author of that article is a total shill. Look at how they word this shit:

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Some 22 per cent came from Dropbox, a workplace productivity and collaboration service, followed by 15 per cent from MediaFire, another entertainment-oriented service

Anyways - uploaded is still working.

kanakori - did music get produced before file-sharing? that's not even close to being a legitimate argument against SOPA/PIPA

  On 1/26/2012 at 2:04 AM, Kanakori said:

What about the kid discovering music right now? What about those who want to learn how to produce music? You think their parents are going to buy them all the digital music they want? You think they'll buy him the 1000 $ ableton license? Fuck this shit. This is bad for humanity in all aspects.

yea really, thank god boc, ae and rdj had pirated software in the early 90's or we would be totally lost.

Are you goddamn stupid? What about the poor children? This is the beauty of the internet, you can learn whatever you want. Aphex and BoC were smart kids with means and shit, they got around whatever the dificluties were, but now its a whole diferente scale, any kid can give a try alot easier and thats a good thing. What world do you live in, seriously? Just think of any african/asian/south american kid.. You fuckin first world egocentric lunatics.

rude

  On 1/26/2012 at 2:56 AM, Kanakori said:

Are you goddamn stupid? What about the poor children? This is the beauty of the internet, you can learn whatever you want. Aphex and BoC were smart kids with means and shit, they got around whatever the dificluties were, but now its a whole diferente scale, any kid can give a try alot easier and thats a good thing. What world do you live in, seriously? Just think of any african/asian/south american kid.. You fuckin first world egocentric lunatics.

Print this post and show it to a therapist, he'll know what to do with you.

I wonder if this "war on filesharing" will become the new war on drugs - unpopular, unwinnable, but damn if they aren't going to keep trying, and ruin plenty of people's lives in the process...

  On 1/26/2012 at 3:02 AM, YO303 said:

  On 1/26/2012 at 2:56 AM, Kanakori said:

Are you goddamn stupid? What about the poor children? This is the beauty of the internet, you can learn whatever you want. Aphex and BoC were smart kids with means and shit, they got around whatever the dificluties were, but now its a whole diferente scale, any kid can give a try alot easier and thats a good thing. What world do you live in, seriously? Just think of any african/asian/south american kid.. You fuckin first world egocentric lunatics.

 

Print this post and show it to a therapist, he'll know what to do with you.

Point me whats false in that post.

  On 1/26/2012 at 3:02 AM, lumpenprol said:

I wonder if this "war on filesharing" will become the new war on drugs - unpopular, unwinnable, but damn if they aren't going to keep trying, and ruin plenty of people's lives in the process...

i think you're onto something, i suspect it will be intermingled with a war on hacking. The pirating hurts the economy they will say and the hacking hurts national security

war. war never changes.

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wasn't there an ad right after 9/11 that said that when you buy pot or illegal drugs you're effectively supporting al qaeda ? i wouldn't be surprised if they made a 'pirating helps terrorism' ad already

edit: found (the first one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQnbNspHsk

i've definitely something along those lines

  On 1/26/2012 at 3:48 AM, Awepittance said:

wasn't there an ad right after 9/11 that said that when you buy pot or illegal drugs you're effectively supporting al qaeda ? i wouldn't be surprised if they made a 'pirating helps terrorism' ad already

Over in the UK almost any commercial DVD you buy has this at the end of it, pretty sure this was made not long after 9/11 as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMIz0_Iij8

  On 1/26/2012 at 2:56 AM, Kanakori said:

Are you goddamn stupid? What about the poor children? This is the beauty of the internet, you can learn whatever you want. Aphex and BoC were smart kids with means and shit, they got around whatever the dificluties were, but now its a whole diferente scale, any kid can give a try alot easier and thats a good thing. What world do you live in, seriously? Just think of any african/asian/south american kid.. You fuckin first world egocentric lunatics.

lol

Looks like all Megaupload data will be destroyed soon http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-user-data-soon-to-be-destroyed-120130/

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“We received a letter very late Friday from the US Attorney that declared there could be an imminent destruction of Megaupload consumer data files on this coming Thursday,” MegaUpload lawyer Ira Rothken told TorrentFreak.

Rothken explains that MegaUpload is determined to protect the interests of its users, but that its hands are tied without help from the authorities. The looming data loss is linked to unpaid bills at Cogent Communications and Carpathia Hosting where MegaUpload leased some of its servers.

Too bad but expected, anyone hoping the links and accounts would just come up to life after the FBI seized the whole thing was just daydreaming.

http://btjunkie.org/goodbye.html

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399890,00.asp

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The company did not specifically address why it opted to shut down, but in an

interview

with TorrentFreak, BTJunkie's unnamed founder said the threat of legal action was a main reason. "Witnessing all the trouble colleagues got into was cause for a lot of worry and stress, and those will now belong to the past," TorrentFreak wrote.

This is a demonstration that our corrupt government does not need acts like SOPA to censor the internet. The shutdown of Megaupload was a lengthy, laborious red-tape affair. But now that the gov't has shown that they can successfully perform these investigations/shutdowns (given enough time), they can wield the Megaupload affair like a club at anyone who stands in their way. It's a totalitarian way of thinking -- literally controlling people through threats. We live in interesting times. Democracy in the US is going to reach either (1) an all time high or (2) an all time low within the next decade.

My guess is this one won't make the nightly news, we'll see

I had an account with filesonic who got scared when this went down and restricted sharing. I cancelled. Havn't found another service quite the same yet. Fucking bollocks!

  On 2/7/2012 at 6:16 AM, Lindrum Larry Cocopipe said:

I had an account with filesonic who got scared when this went down and restricted sharing. I cancelled. Havn't found another service quite the same yet. Fucking bollocks!

Son of a bitch, why can't I get everything for free? Huh?

lol larry is back

  On 1/26/2012 at 2:41 AM, jules said:

yea really, thank god boc, ae and rdj had pirated software in the early 90's or we would be totally lost.

WAT NOOO YU ARE A LIOR!! They wrote all their software by their own (in a sandpaper derusted tank)!!!11!!!