Megaupload

[Fully]

Dammit, they've shut down Megaupload!

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/justice-fbi-crack-megaupload/story?id=15396526

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

mother fucker. 

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

here's some back up shit just in case:

www.SendSpace.com – Unlimited uploads and unlimited downloads. The file size limit with SendSpace is up to 300MB too.

www.MediaFire.com

iFile.it (1gb)

TransferBigFiles.com (100mb)

YourFileLink.com (up to 5gb)

http://www.webfilehost.com/ (500mb)

http://www.fileupyours.com/ (250mb storage)

http://filefactory.com/ (50 files up to 2gb a piece)

http://www.gamefront.com/files/upload (time limit)

http://www.4shared.com/ (10gb free)

filesonic.com (1gb)

http://zippyshare.com/ (200mb per file)

http://letitbit.net/

hotfile.com (400mb)

http://uploading.com/ (10gb free storage)

crocko.com

http://www.2shared.com/

http://www.wupload.com/

[mjk73]

WTF?!?! Dammit, I get a ton of po....nevermind

[Fully]

Thanks, Sticky. One wonders how long these sites will still be around...

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

http://109.236.83.66/

[woodnymph]

Uhmmm??

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Uhmmm??

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

well deserved hacks.  they hit the justice department right?  still need to read the article. 

[woodnymph]

Uhmmm??

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

well deserved hacks.  they hit the justice department right?  still need to read the article.

Yeah they did!!   :o :o :o  So nuts!!!  Kinda trippin me out right now   :o

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Uhmmm??

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

well deserved hacks.  they hit the justice department right?  still need to read the article.

Yeah they did!!   :o :o :o  So nuts!!!  Kinda trippin me out right now   :o

it's essentially just a bunch of networked computers that have been hacked before hand and are chilling silently.  big businesses with lots of computers, etc.  then they just overload the shit until it can't handle the traffic.  it's not really hacking it, but more forcing it to shutdown and not function by flooding it.  they aren't stealing information or anything.  they could and might have but anonymous at least has seemed more into making people's lives a pain than exposing stuff. they're on your side so you have nothing to worry about. 

[woodnymph]

Uhmmm??

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

well deserved hacks.  they hit the justice department right?  still need to read the article.

Yeah they did!!   :o :o :o  So nuts!!!  Kinda trippin me out right now   :o

it's essentially just a bunch of networked computers that have been hacked before hand and are chilling silently.  big businesses with lots of computers, etc.  then they just overload the shit until it can't handle the traffic.  it's not really hacking it, but more forcing it to shutdown and not function by flooding it.  they aren't stealing information or anything.  they could and might have but anonymous at least has seemed more into making people's lives a pain than exposing stuff. they're on your side so you have nothing to worry about.

Well that's cool-- I wasn't worried really, was kind of excited actually!  But maybe I'm just behind the technology times, it seemed like a pretty big ordeal... and something in me just really gets tickled thinking about gov't sites getting jostled  :)  For what it's worth  :-X

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

it pumps me up too.  love this shit.  down with the mother fuckers.  let them burn.  all of them.  hit them with some mob type lawsuit.  clean house.  make their lives a pain in the process.  doesn't get any better.  karma at it's finest.

[woodnymph]

it pumps me up too.  love this shit.  down with the mother fuckers.  let them burn.  all of them.  hit them with some mob type lawsuit.  clean house.  make their lives a pain in the process.  doesn't get any better.  karma at it's finest.

AMEN!   :D :D :D

[johnnYYac]

Feds: Megaupload files may be deleted this week

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Feds: Megaupload files may be deleted this week

the saga continues aye?  so people are allowed to get their stored back up files if they contact megaupload? wtf?  interesting they're going to delete the servers.  makes ya wonder tho.  these people are smart about computers, whose to say there weren't already 10back ups of it stored somewhere?  if megaupload comes back, even with it's servers deleted it will only take a matter of days before it's back to where it was before they deleted it.  that's why this stuff is such a bunch of bullshit if ya ask me.   wasting our tax dollars prosecuting people for a service most people whom use technology depend on greatly is fucking stupid. 

[el_chode]

Feds: Megaupload files may be deleted this week

the saga continues aye?  so people are allowed to get their stored back up files if they contact megaupload? wtf?  interesting they're going to delete the servers.  makes ya wonder tho.  these people are smart about computers, whose to say there weren't already 10back ups of it stored somewhere?  if megaupload comes back, even with it's servers deleted it will only take a matter of days before it's back to where it was before they deleted it.  that's why this stuff is such a bunch of bullshit if ya ask me.   wasting our tax dollars prosecuting people for a service most people whom use technology depend on greatly is fucking stupid.

The legal eagle in me immediately wants to know how the federal destruction of legitimate content is not a 5th amendment taking.

The rest of me would like to point out some very important things:

1) Many of the other "lockers" have ceased operation if hosted domestically in the United States. Others are blocking American IP addys from accessing
2) This is bad because when one country has a bad policy in one area, they may force business to go overseas where the policy is bad in other areas
3) The Megaupload people are not heroes. Their reckless behavior behind the scenes are their undoing. It's like in Goodfellas: you don't flash the cash. Bush league
4) Though experiment: why are we suddenly outraged over the government cracking down on a bunch of multi-millionaire 1%ers who didn't pay their fair share?

[Tracy 2112]

The legal eagle in me immediately wants to know how the federal destruction of legitimate content is not a 5th amendment taking.

The rest of me would like to point out some very important things:

1) Many of the other "lockers" have ceased operation if hosted domestically in the United States. Others are blocking American IP addys from accessing
2) This is bad because when one country has a bad policy in one area, they may force business to go overseas where the policy is bad in other areas
3) The Megaupload people are not heroes. Their reckless behavior behind the scenes are their undoing. It's like in Goodfellas: you don't flash the cash. Bush league
4) Though experiment: why are we suddenly outraged over the government cracking down on a bunch of multi-millionaire 1%ers who didn't pay their fair share?

yes on 3 & 4.

Hard to root for the government against anyone, but have you seen/heard Kim Dotcom?  :-\   Man, I don't care if he brings me coffee in bed every morning, it's hard to pull for that guy.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

Feds: Megaupload files may be deleted this week

the saga continues aye?  so people are allowed to get their stored back up files if they contact megaupload? wtf?  interesting they're going to delete the servers.  makes ya wonder tho.  these people are smart about computers, whose to say there weren't already 10back ups of it stored somewhere?  if megaupload comes back, even with it's servers deleted it will only take a matter of days before it's back to where it was before they deleted it.  that's why this stuff is such a bunch of bullshit if ya ask me.   wasting our tax dollars prosecuting people for a service most people whom use technology depend on greatly is fucking stupid.

The legal eagle in me immediately wants to know how the federal destruction of legitimate content is not a 5th amendment taking.

The rest of me would like to point out some very important things:

1) Many of the other "lockers" have ceased operation if hosted domestically in the United States. Others are blocking American IP addys from accessing
2) This is bad because when one country has a bad policy in one area, they may force business to go overseas where the policy is bad in other areas
3) The Megaupload people are not heroes. Their reckless behavior behind the scenes are their undoing. It's like in Goodfellas: you don't flash the cash. Bush league
4) Though experiment: why are we suddenly outraged over the government cracking down on a bunch of multi-millionaire 1%ers who didn't pay their fair share?

the bottom line is there will always be a new megaupload out there waiting to do exactly what the current one just did.  this is some serpent eating it's own tail bullshit if you ask me.   this is more about protecting the internet and what we're allowed to do with it than defending the people who ran megaupload, imo.  my emotions aren't tied to the people who ran it but the function and purpose of the site itself.  there are plenty of businesses that can't afford a host to back their files up on, I'm sure this is going to be a huge pain in the ass for them.  same with a lot of home studio/local musicians, etc.  it's 1's and 0's.  digital media is not and should not be treated as it's physical counter parts.  period.

[el_chode]

ah see sticky, that's where you're wrong. If you treat it as its physical counterparts, then you don't need new laws to govern it. To quote Battlesta, a series I never purchased but watched because I borrowed from a friend (and to underscore your point about megaupload):

All this has happened before, all this will happen again.
And again
And again

It's nothing new at all really. No different than moving a magnetic tape to digital disc. No different than you copying your favorite tape for me in 1985 and mailing it to me or you copying your favorite CD in 1995 and mailing it to me. It's just that your costs have changed, so the market changed, and its easier. Easier is not new.

Which goes back to the most fundamental issue here: it's just a temper tantrum of epic proportions put on by an industry that has failed to adapt to a new market. Or perhaps can't survive in it.

Kodak's big failure was not enacting a law prohibiting digital photography.

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

that makes sense about treating it differently and having to use new laws.  but at the same time,  it's been close to a decade now since we've been able to freely download any movie or album you could ever want.  maybe closer to two decades now thinking about it.  the internet hasn't changed.  what you said about that is on point for sure.  it's still just information.  it's still just 1's and 0's, code.  a lot of the script is open source now too.  all the really smooth running, high quality shit out there is open source and allows the entire world to help make the product better.  such as malwarebytes or linux.  lots of stuff.  this scares people like bill gates and especially his investors.   but as I'm sure you'd agree at this point, fuck them.

this really is about suppression of information at the core of it.  from zach de la rocha of rage against the machine "they don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em".   

censorship.  this is horrible for everybody all around but I don't think there has been any case where illegal downloads has bankrupt a musician.  the musician has always profited, and what's that price really anyway? who sets that price on a piece of art? why are all pieces of music basically the same price when bad ass factor of music varies is huge degrees?  why are they treated as equals?  why are all songs a standard .99cents?  all these numbers and prices made up are bullshit anyway.  if pirating is stealing it's stealing in the sense of Robin Hood. 

agree with ya for the most part tho.  did you see that daily show piece they did about SOAP and PIPA?  half the people didn't even understand what the fuck it was about.  and for some reason I don't think they cared because they dont' use the internet very much.