Lol when you look at that house, you wouldn't believe that the owner of megaupload lived in there. Jesus Christ.
They would not have avoided this even if hosted outside USA. .com's are in a US based registry and the feds can seize it.
Quote:But it is co-related to a huge extent.
Care to articulate that?
I've had to send megaupload at least 10 DMCA notices myself. And yes they did remove the material but they do nothing to discourage illegal uploads. They even encourage it. Which is what the indictment says in essence. They had ways of stopping copyright infringment and they didn't. Instead they created a system to encourage movie and music downloads.
For those defending megaupload. Will you be honest with how you used their service?
Quote:You don't see them closing a whole bank because there's illegal money tied up in it do you?
Sure you do. Happens more often than you think.
http://problembanklist.com/ocean-bank-ch...rges-0394/
Quote: I don't know how people can claim they "knowingly didn't remove copyright material" furthermore I have no idea how the US can prove that. They had millions of legitimate users coming on to upload legal files... 4% of internet traffic goes there.
Read the indictment. You would see how they know and what they know.
Quote:They had millions of legitimate users coming on to upload legal files... 4% of internet traffic goes there.
And I think that's going to be their biggest challenge. Showing that the site was being used legitimately by most of it's users. IMHO that's not true. Most of their traffic and users were downloading music and movies imho.
This is why their top downloads were fake. This is why they had no search function on their site. This is why they deleted files after just a couple weeks if it was not a popular download. A storage locker would NOT delete content of it's users. The goal was income through clicks, impressions, and ads. That income was derived from new movies.
And yes the 36 of 39 new movies were still at MU even after they were informed.
Quote:Well, when you have 500billion files being uploaded a day, I'm sure it's easy to loose track! Plus, I'm sure millions of people are reporting files everyday.
But they were able to efficiently removed child porn downloads. Which arguable would be harder than movies. That's part of the governments argument.
This is still all very disturbing though.
Quote:For those defending megaupload. Will you be honest with how you used their service?
I honestly use Mediafire, the only time I end up at Megaupload is for a rom patch or .dll that I'm looking for usually.
Quote:Quote:You don't see them closing a whole bank because there's illegal money tied up in it do you?
Sure you do. Happens more often than you think.
http://problembanklist.com/ocean-bank-ch...rges-0394/
Thanks, definitely an interesting link, and sways my opinion a bit. I still feel it's wrong, though. With the same logic Youtube should be down. They make better strides to prevent it, but it still happens, and I'm no law person, but bad intentions with illegal content should be judged the same as good intentions with illegal content imo.
The IP that was posted before was legit. Megaupload is up.
(2012-01-20, 08:35 PM)Aristotle Wrote: [ -> ]The IP that was posted before was legit. Megaupload is up.
>beware to pishing sites
>we are working to be back full again
nope.avi
What you guys have forgotten is that not all people shared pirated material on Megaupload, I myself uploaded my own music on this File sharing Host because it gave free users incredibly fast download speeds, now all my files have gone and no way to get them back!
But Megaupload are 90% to blame for their hosting company to close, they didn't do enough to stop pirated material coming on their servers, and also giving the uploaders an affiliate program aswell, that's asking for trouble, now Fileserve have closed their affiliate program also.
@rapid My advice is upload your music to your own website, it's just easier and better in the long run.
(2012-01-21, 02:25 AM)rapid Wrote: [ -> ]What you guys have forgotten is that not all people shared pirated material on Megaupload, I myself uploaded my own music on this File sharing Host because it gave free users incredibly fast download speeds, now all my files have gone and no way to get them back!
But Megaupload are 90% to blame for their hosting company to close, they didn't do enough to stop pirated material coming on their servers, and also giving the uploaders an affiliate program aswell, that's asking for trouble, now Fileserve have closed their affiliate program also.
It's up still. Grab your crap and leave quickly.
In all honesty i would say use rapidshare for music. A feature I thought was cool but never used because I don't really upload music was the built in media player(works like a cloud music service). They even had it before amazon and google(don't know the legality of music that's not yours though with thier service).