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pinebear 8,555 posts
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pinebear 8,555 posts
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Registered 7 years agoFatiguez wrote:
Bravo sir!
I propose 72 minutes' silence for the death of Megavideo :Cツ
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Dirtbox 73,741 posts
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Registered 11 years agoIf all the stuff from their indictment is remotely true then the only thing about this that makes me sad is that we've lost the best of it's type.
Also I've never needed to wait between downloads, hell at one point I could download multiple files at once.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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bdaggers 3,779 posts
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Registered 9 years agoThe views expressed above do not necessarily represent every Badger, everywhere. Or even THIS Badger, always.
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Tom_Servo 13,224 posts
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Registered 3 years agoUPDATE: The site appears to no longer be working and could be a phishing tool. For this reason, we have removed the link. Mashable is investigating. -
Dirtbox 73,741 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI think the stateside servers were seized, but they've got server farms in several countries, including NL.
Edited by Dirtbox at 23:54:40 20-01-2012+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Dirtbox 73,741 posts
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Registered 11 years agoCrass, pointless and poorly linked. You'll fit in nicely.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Dirtbox 73,741 posts
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Registered 11 years agoThey haven't shut down the ability to share though, sonic has backed out of that completely.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Jazzy_Geoff 7,746 posts
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Registered 4 years agoLooks like its back to the good ship rapidshare for me. All is forgiven. I can't put myself through the pain of newsgroups again. -
Dirtbox 73,741 posts
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Registered 11 years agoNewsgroups are pretty much the only thing left at this point. With all the cloud hosts down, torrents will be scrutinised far too closely and rapidshare isn't far behind this lot.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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Tom_Servo 13,224 posts
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Registered 3 years agoOther sites are blocking IPs from the US
I haven't heard of most of these, so I don't know how significant it is. Still, if the real big ones (Rapidshare and Mediafire, I guess) start doing this too then it's job done for the American authorities, really.
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ecureuil 74,185 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThey're just waiting until the heat is off.
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Tom_Servo 13,224 posts
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Registered 3 years agoIt's always a losing battle stopping something so pervasive (also see the war on drugs) and the authorities will be well aware of that fact, but from a political standpoint you can't really say "Yeah, do what you want". There always needs to be that hint of threat, no matter how small it is (and in the case of file-sharing, it's pretty minuscule).
It's all coming at a weird time, because quite a few of cyber-locker sites were making moves to become more legal. There was one - I can't remember which - that was trialling something that would scan uploaded material to make sure none of it was infringing copyright (I don't think that's particularly feasible, for many reasons, but there you go). Then again, I guess it's also a message from the areas of American law enforcement that deal with this kind of thing that they don't want or need legislation like SOPA and PIPA. -
asha 1,983 posts
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Registered 9 years agoWhat's everyone's opinions on the views expressed in this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ&feature=g-all-lik&c
Edited by asha at 06:50:42 23-01-2012( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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mrharvest 5,049 posts
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Registered 10 years agoComplete nonsense. -
Jamash 10 posts
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Registered 3 years agoFBI allegedly going through Megaupload files with a "fine-toothed comb"
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Tom_Servo 13,224 posts
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Registered 3 years agoWell, this'll be interesting. I suspect they'll only go after people who have uploaded ridiculous amounts of music, movies, games, etc. if they're going to go after anyone at all (but even then, you're going to have to prove that they weren't using it as cloud storage for their own stuff).
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Registered 9 years agoNot had time to read through the thread. Have we had this yet?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq
Why was MegaUpload really shut down?
In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)
I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.
"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak
Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.
"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works." -
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Registered 2 years agoJust spotted that one via Graham Linehan's tweets. Very interesting if true, and possibly not as surprising as it deserves to be. -
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Registered 8 years agomagicpanda wrote:
..and there it is.
Not had time to read through the thread. Have we had this yet?
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Registered 7 years agoTom_Servo wrote:
It's like a reverse SOPA. Excellent.
Other sites are blocking IPs from the US
This post is sponsored by Apple and the iPhone 4S. Think different.
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Khanivor 38,683 posts
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Registered 11 years agoecureuil wrote:
Looking at the fella's past business deals and the FBI timeline posted earlier I'd be inclined to believe Megabox was full of Megashite.magicpanda wrote:
..and there it is.
Not had time to read through the thread. Have we had this yet?
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Tom_Servo 13,224 posts
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Registered 3 years agoMegaupload shutdown unlikely to deter piracy and in fact stifle emerging means of online content distribution, analysts say
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Khanivor 38,683 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSo file sharing sites like Megaupload account for roughly one quarter of piracy not committed using newsgroups and shutting them down won't affect piracy? I guess that assumes people used Megaupload over torrents for a reason other than the couldn't figure out how to make torrenting work. -
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Registered 5 years agoI had a mate who used Megaupload over torrents as he believed it was completely safe and there would be no way of tracing him.GHOSTBUSTERS
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But as you long as you only streamed the content (viewed it) there isn't an issue.
The illegal part is the sharing; so the people that upload the stuff (that's how I understand it).You dare to strike Scurrcules!?
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