Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com

Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70092

By Airlie91 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:38 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:38 am #70092

http://www.gadgetsmagazine.com.ph/news/ ... bsite.html

Thats the link to the article

Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70096

By TornadicManiac - Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:48 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:48 am #70096

Here is a crazy idea. If you didn't pirate and illegally download in the first place, you wouldn't be upset about something like this. Just saying. :ugeek:

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Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70102

By Airlie91 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:49 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:49 am #70102

who said anything about upset? :p

Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70112

By nkirby3385 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:42 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:42 am #70112

There are a lot of reasons to be upset by this actually. The site was more than just a place to share pirated materials, and has been a major hosting site for a decent amount of time. There's more, but this really doesn't feel like the place to go off on a sociopolitical rant......

Not sure how entrenching the govt in another unwinnable war is really gonna help the US out in a time when things are still fiscally tight. Obviously Anonymous was upset enough to disrupt a few websites....if this starts a true cyber war.....this could cost a lot of people. If they can hijack sites and business hardware like they've done in the past, it's only a matter of time before they wipe something big....imagine if they attacked one of the major Credit Cards, or, perhaps, if they found a way to attack the NYSE? It's not unfathomable. Major commerce could come to a serious issue over the flex of judiciary muscle...

Well....much of a rant I guess...

Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70114

By Cannabin0l - Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:16 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:16 am #70114

I say good riddance.

No more freaking "You have watched 72 minutes of Megavideo today!" in the middle of my freaking Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

[[ :. Kills: 3,104 | Deaths: 644 .: ]]

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Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70115

By Eldalar - Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:21 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:21 am #70115

The thing I am most worried about are the Texture Packs. I may be wrong, but weren't most of them stored in megaupload? I guess that will take quite some time for them to be all reuploaded (hoping that they don't start going after Rapidshare and other uploaders).

And I don't really understand the reasoning behind it. They offered diskspace to the people and a way to remove it if it infringes copyright, did they not follow through with it or were they supposed to look over every single file?

Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70127

By TechnoProdigy - Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:42 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:42 am #70127

Megaupload wasn't a piracy site, it may have had pirated materials on it but it wasn't a piracy site. It was the 13th largest site on the internet.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70130

By Vailure - Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:50 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:50 am #70130

It's just the start folks...

No Pity For Fritterdonut

Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70162

By Prodigy9 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:34 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:34 am #70162

I'm really enjoying all of this conflict over SOPA/piracy/antipiracy. I'm not sure if I'll like how this play ends, but until that time it's certainly an interesting drama

The Greymarch has ended.

Re: Megaupload.com gone, along with Megavideo.com#70195

By Vailure - Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:10 am

- Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:10 am #70195

Homeland Security now watching Journalists, and by the wording anyone who blogs/tweets/etc etc

http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-securit ... oring-321/