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« on: January 19, 2012, 03:54:46 PM »

There won’t be any file uploading to popular service Megaupload anytime soon, mega or otherwise. The site has been taken down today amidst FBI charges of criminal copyright infringement, according to the Wall Street Journal.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/19/megaupload-faces-fbi-charges-for-piracy-site-taken-down/

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204616504577171060611948408-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwOTExNDkyWj.html

Arrests in USA and NZ .......

more .....

http://gizmodo.com/5877612/feds-kill-megaupload
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2012, 04:37:04 PM »

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/19/doj-calls-megaupload-case-among-the-largest-criminal-copyright-cases-ever/
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Everyone from graphic designers to programmers for the company were indicted today. Missing from the list of those facing charges is the CEO of Megaupload, Kasseem Dean, also known as Swizz Beatz.

 Huh  Huh  Huh

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crm-074.html
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The conspirators’ content hosting site, Megaupload.com, is advertised as having more than one billion visits to the site, more than 150 million registered users, 50 million daily visitors and accounting for four percent of the total traffic on the Internet

Are all them at risk to be indicted ?  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2012, 04:51:26 PM »

I tried to access this but failed

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crm-074.html
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2012, 05:07:07 PM »



I tried too and the page was loading very slowly, so I quoted text as reported from the first link, now the whole site appear to be down.
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2012, 07:05:52 PM »



I tried too and the page was loading very slowly, so I quoted text as reported from the first link, now the whole site appear to be down.


I wonder why .......  Cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2012, 08:02:41 PM »


Are all them at risk to be indicted ?  Roll Eyes
Except the CEO, probably...   Angry
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« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2012, 08:14:36 PM »

Site is back up
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« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2012, 08:17:01 PM »

Site is back up


Which one?
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« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2012, 08:21:49 PM »

Site is back up


... not really ...

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http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crm-074.html
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« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2012, 09:21:05 PM »

Dudes... How is the sopa doing in USA? Did they...

Is this a first victim?


Nope ......  this has been prepared over the last number of years ......  details from the link if you can get to it

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crm-074.html
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« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2012, 09:22:05 PM »



I got it to display ....  but it is not coming up again .....
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« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2012, 09:43:16 PM »



Hmmm ... this is not going make any good for Internet freedom ...
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« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2012, 10:21:47 PM »



I got it to display ....  but it is not coming up again .....


It is up again.
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« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2012, 06:13:59 AM »

http://gizmodo.com/5877779/jailed-megaupload-employees-denied-bail

Seems to be extradition proceedings in the works .......
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« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2012, 06:46:26 AM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload
Megaupload is an online Hong Kong–based company established in 2005 that ran a one-click hosting online service of the same name, along with its sister services. The site was shut down by the U.S. Justice Department on January 19, 2012, during an investigation into alleged copyright infringement.Leading to what activist group Anonymous calls 'the single largest Internet attack in its history'.

What about people who stored their Legitimate work on Megaupload. Huh Suppose this will end up in the courts on that issue. You can't say the whole entire content of Megaupload was copyright violated material. Ridiculous.
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