jose408 Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Whats going on with megaupload? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoku Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Due to the SOPA/PIPA incident, MegaUpload has been shut down.7 or so people that manage MU were arrested a week ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† Emotional Outlet Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 There are quite a few interesting articles on the issue. A quick Google search will land you any number of pages on the shutdown.It's kind of a popular thing to debate at the moment, haha. I love reading through the comments on some of these articles.http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-19/megaupload-feds-shutdown/52678528/1http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120120/15060817494/busta-rhymes-backs-megaupload-says-record-labels-are-real-criminals.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Due to the SOPA/PIPA incident, MegaUpload has been shut down.7 or so people that manage MU were arrested a week ago.This is wrong.The FBI takedown of MegaUpload had nothing to do with either of those two failed bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryoku Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 The FBI found this out cause of SOPA. Without those two movements, the FBI wouldn't have gotten suspicious.One reason leads to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 The FBI found this out cause of SOPA. Without those two movements, the FBI wouldn't have gotten suspicious.One reason leads to another.Again you're wrong.The FBI claims they've been investigating them for well over a year. A lot of their evidence supports this claim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digatu Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Again you're wrong.The FBI claims they've been investigating them for well over a year. A lot of their evidence supports this claim.Yer, the investigation was around 2 years. I think doing it the day after the website blackout was kind of making a point that they don't need sopa/pipa bills to take anyone out. It Kind of reminds me of the army "fire for effect". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannifaye3oh3 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 The FBI are taking down a lot of websites :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluenoser Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 I believe the FBI when it says it was investigating them for a long period prior to the charges being laid, but I am not so convinced that the timing for them wasn't a result of the action taken by major internet players to stop SOPA/PIPA, especially when it happens a day after said action succeeded in getting those bills put on hold in the Congress. I think this was a message being sent as much as anything else. I do find it sourly amusing that the action taken proved that SOPA/PIPA were not needed, that the tools needed were already there to be used if the government chose to, it really underscored just how unnecessary those bills were all along despite all the hot and heavy breathing about it coming from its supporters.I also am a little disturbed at just how far the FBI went with MegaUpload, it was a service that provided a lot of legitimate legal services for a lot of people both personally and professionally, and one has to wonder whether they were also deliberately being targeted for some reason(s) or simply collateral damage in what was clearly as much a message being sent to all file locker services as anything specifically aimed at MU itself. I always wonder how much of the ham-handedness we see is from ignorance of how the internet/electronic world actually works or done with full knowledge of such, the former would be less disturbing to me than the latter, not that either is any good to begin with of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinigami King Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Again you're wrong.The FBI claims they've been investigating them for well over a year. A lot of their evidence supports this claim.Yer, the investigation was around 2 years. I think doing it the day after the website blackout was kind of making a point that they don't need sopa/pipa bills to take anyone out. It Kind of reminds me of the army "fire for effect".To be honest I thought it was the UMG lawsuit that put them on the FBI's radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragnawind Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Yer, the investigation was around 2 years. I think doing it the day after the website blackout was kind of making a point that they don't need sopa/pipa bills to take anyone out. It Kind of reminds me of the army "fire for effect".The first paragraph is mostly, if not fully true, but the second part isn't. It was actually just a coincidence that the takedown just so happened at that point in time. One, they had to do their investigation and get their proof first, and two, they had to wait for an approval by the DoJ and get permission to have the arrest warrants granted in the other countries where the employees resided. It if worked out sooner or later, it could have still landed near the SOPA/PIPA blackout day, if not on the day itself. Personally, I don't think it was right, since everyone, including corporations have their rights to privacy and the only way such an investigation could have gone on is if they violated privacy rights. They would have needed hard evidence before-hand in order to start investigating. All the evidence used to start the investigation seemed to be private or even personal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustamseer Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Is it going to be reopened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dae314 Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Is it going to be reopened?I believe the CEO of MU is not the target of any legal accusations, so if the site reopens it will be up to him. Even if it does reopen, the site will likely be very different than what you're used to, but I can't say that with 100% certainty.I think it can be safely said that MU is staying down for quite a while, or at least until the cases against the people who were arrested get resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragnawind Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 I believe the CEO of MU is not the target of any legal accusations, so if the site reopens it will be up to him. Even if it does reopen, the site will likely be very different than what you're used to, but I can't say that with 100% certainty.I think it can be safely said that MU is staying down for quite a while, or at least until the cases against the people who were arrested get resolved.With that, you are basically wrong. Kim Dotcom owns MU and he is the one receiving most of the heat in the case against MU. If he gets proven guilty, MU will never return, but another host will be sure to take its place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmjaw18 Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 It sucks....Anime took a huge blow with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digatu Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 The first paragraph is mostly, if not fully true, but the second part isn't. It was actually just a coincidence that the takedown just so happened at that point in time. One, they had to do their investigation and get their proof first, and two, they had to wait for an approval by the DoJ and get permission to have the arrest warrants granted in the other countries where the employees resided. It if worked out sooner or later, it could have still landed near the SOPA/PIPA blackout day, if not on the day itself. Personally, I don't think it was right, since everyone, including corporations have their rights to privacy and the only way such an investigation could have gone on is if they violated privacy rights. They would have needed hard evidence before-hand in order to start investigating. All the evidence used to start the investigation seemed to be private or even personal.I don't believe in coincidence. But, I'm sure we can agree to disagree on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazoosk Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 I guess the entertainment industry padded the right pockets...Not that it will change any thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dae314 Posted February 3, 2012 Report Share Posted February 3, 2012 With that, you are basically wrong. Kim Dotcom owns MU and he is the one receiving most of the heat in the case against MU. If he gets proven guilty, MU will never return, but another host will be sure to take its place.Ok, so I was wrong, but not for the reason you're talking about. In early reports about this incident I read somewhere that Swizz Beatz was the CEO of MU and was not arrested or accused of anything. The CEO is different from the owner (who was arrested and is being charged).However, you're still right about me being wrong because when I looked this up again to confirm what I remembered, I found articles like this which shed light on the situation at MU with Swizz Beatz.Basically, I don't think anyone really knows what will happen to MU as of yet ._.''' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvalin Posted February 3, 2012 Report Share Posted February 3, 2012 I feel this isn't right as there just wasn't illegal things uploaded on Megaupload. Plus it not only affected the U.S. as other nations used Megaupload too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegenius05 Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 MU takedown killed my favourite asian drama website... darn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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