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  1. Megaupload has been taken down by worldwide authorities.

    Many bootlegs now missing.
  2. I heard about that, and the first thing I thought of was our beloved bootleg section. I hope to god that many of them are still kicking around on other sites like mediafire or rapidshare.
  3. I'm in support of the MegaUpload shutdown for various reasons. I'm devastated to hear about sites like ours that used MU for legal purposes, but when reading the official induitment published by the US government and seeing some of the things MU is being accused of- they needed to be brought down.

    This is not a violation of freedom, a strike against the Constitution, and it doesn't relate to SOPA. In fact, this is what everyone around the world should be rooting for- a legal, by-the-book, justified and published case against somebody doing something illegal on what has become a national level. There is a crazy amount of hassle that the government has to go through to get a case like this to take off, and as long as SOPA isn't around, they'll still have to do it. And it's the right way to go about a proceeding like this. SOPA eliminates all of the hassle and gives them a much shorter path to censorship.

    What's unfortunate is that MegaUpload abused its power on the internet to house enough illegal activity that it got itself shut down, ruining the fun for those who used it the right way.

    There are accusations against MU for offering monetary prizes to premium members who could upload the hottest material. There was more to this than, "Oh hey, there's some movies on that website."....The people behind it deserve to be brought down, however terrible it may seem.
  4. Great.
    I didn't like megaupload, really, but our stuff was on it and there was no take-down warning.

    But will the people who downloaded those concerts, or the people who mixed them please upload them again on mediafire or something?

    Sweet.
  5. If we can somehow compile a comprehensive, all-inclusive list that a mod can run on this or a separate thread, I'm sure by reaching out to the U2start community we can retrieve most of what we've lost. It just needs done.

    To be perfectly honest, I'm not going to scrounge the show pages and see what's missing, but I'd be more than happy to reference a list if there was one put together and upload whatever I had off of it.
  6. Ok.

    Any volunteers ?


  7. Anonymous strikes back. (H)
  8. Anonymous is retarded for striking against government websites for taking down something that people use illegally. This whole thing is getting blown out of proportion.

    If you always went to the same house to snort coke, and the government tore that house down even though other people occasionally walked through to do no illegal damage, would all the cokeheads run out to the government and be like, "GIVE ME BACK MY CRACK HOUSE!"??

    No.
  9. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3Anonymous is retarded for striking against government websites for taking down something that people use illegally. This whole thing is getting blown out of proportion.

    If you always went to the same house to snort coke, and the government tore that house down even though other people occasionally walked through to do no illegal damage, would all the cokeheads run out to the government and be like, "GIVE ME BACK MY CRACK HOUSE!"??

    No.


    I'm just upset that some of those bootlegs that we had on there might be gone. I don't give a rats ass about anything else on there, illegal or not. But I'm allowed to get pissed off for the reason being that some of the stuff that I was interested in was on there. And maybe the cokeheads wouldn't go to the government complaining, but garunteed if the people who went in there for no illegal damage had valuable things in there, they'd be a little PO'd and upset too.
  10. no one has to trawl all the show pages go to advanced show search and highlight megaupload on the links section result = 269 but some of those may have alternatives already.
  11. The indictment accuses the suspects of being members of "the Mega Conspiracy, a worldwide criminal organization whose members engaged in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale."


    "The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicised their links to users throughout the world," a statement said.

    "By actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicise infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicise such content on the Megaupload site.

    "Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users."


    Obviously, it looks like Megaupload were engaging in more than just harbouring illegal files. Details of the indictment are summarised on Wikipedia as:

    1.In practice, the "vast majority" of users do not have any significant long term private storage capability. Continued storage is dependent upon regular downloads of the file occurring. Files not downloaded are rapidly removed in most cases, whereas popular downloaded files are retained.
    2.Because a small proportion of users pay for storage, the business is dependent upon advertising. Adverts are primarily viewed when files are downloaded and the business model is therefore not based upon storage but upon maximizing downloads.
    3.Persons indicted have "instructed individual users how to locate links to infringing content on the Mega Sites ... [and] ... have also shared with each other comments from Mega Site users demonstrating that they have used or are attempting to use the Mega Sites to get infringing copies of copyrighted content."
    4.Persons indicted, unlike the public, are not reliant upon links to stored files, but can search the internal database directly. It is claimed they have "searched the internal database for their associates and themselves so that they may directly access copyright-infringing content".
    5.A comprehensive takedown method is in use to identify child pornography, but not deployed to remove infringing content. (item 24)
    6.Infringing users did not have their accounts terminated, and the defendants "made no significant effort to identify users who were using the Mega Sites or services to infringe copyrights, to prevent the uploading of infringing copies of copyrighted materials, or to identify infringing copies of copyrighted works" (item 55-56)
    7.An incentivizing program was adopted encouraging the upload of "popular" files in return for payments to successful uploaders. (item 69e et al)
    8.Defendants explicitly discussed evasion and infringement issues (69i-l)


    I don't predict the same fate for MediaFire and RapidShare, both websites actively engage in removing copyrighted material (yeah, some still remains but they respond to copyright claims). RapidShare and MediaFire are both geared towards personal file hosting, MegaUpload never seemed to tip that way. Megavideo in particular was ridiculous, full of publicly available films etc. It was probably faster to look on Megavideo then it would to search on Netflix/LoveFilm (not that I did it, I'd only settle for high quality).

    And finally, I wouldn't say many bootlegs were lost. We use MediaFire and RapidShare 99% here. If any were lost, we have members who own all bootlegs.


  12. The graphic shows attack hotspots (mainly central America and Europe) and they are are up 24% above normal levels.