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Megaupload shut down by Feds.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭MrSing


    This guy Kim Schmitz is another fraud anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,757 ✭✭✭✭Basq




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Squall19


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    This sucks alright.

    I'd be slightly worried if one was a regular uploader (making money off it) or have a premium account with them. last thing you want is the FBI going through its files and your name and credit card pop up.

    Megaupload used to get 50 million hits a day. It has 180 million registered users.

    You know the sad thing about all this, what kind of power do they have, to arrest people in New Zealand ? Shame on them for bending over.

    Facebook, Wiki, Google etc must have seen this coming with the black day yesterday.

    They arrested the ****ing graphics designer!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    MrSing wrote: »
    This guy Kim Schmitz is another fraud anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz
    In 2001, Schmitz purchased $375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company LetsBuyIt.com and subsequently announced his intention to invest EUR 50 million in the company.[13] Unknown to others, Schmitz did not have the funds available for purchase, although the announcement caused the share value of LetsBuyIt.com to jump by nearly 300%.[14] Schmitz quickly sold the shares and profited $1.5 million as a result.[13]

    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭MrSing


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    This sucks alright.

    I'd be slightly worried if one was a regular uploader (making money off it) or have a premium account with them. last thing you want is the FBI going through its files and your name and credit card pop up.

    A subscription to a VPN service is all you need! use RS/MU/FS and many more using their free service, switch ip address when you have used up all your free bandwidth. 100% anonymous too


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Squall19


    MrSing wrote: »
    A subscription to a VPN service is all you need! use RS/MU/FS and many more using their free service, switch ip address when you have used up all your free bandwidth. 100% anonymous too

    VPN providers are working with the Feds all the time.

    It's no where near 100% anonymous, if they want you, they will find you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,757 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Bloody catchy...



    EDIT: RIAA down? UMG down? Were Anonymous that quick off the mark?


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    sink wrote: »
    I don't know what's going on exactly but this concerns me greatly. What happens if google's servers get raided next because people are using their google file storage to hold copyright works?

    Google music?


  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭MrSing


    Squall19 wrote: »
    VPN providers are working with the Feds all the time.

    It's no where near 100% anonymous, if they want you, they will find you.
    News to me, where did you hear/see that?


  • Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭Blikes


    Anonymous have taken the websites of The Department of Justice, The RIAA, Universal Music (UMG) and the MPAA offline in retaliation.

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Squall19




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Media999


    They were located in the US? I thought they were Hong Kong based. Pretty stupid if they were.

    Although is this a publicity stunt for Sopa?

    .Com domain controlled by US with servers in US also.


  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭MrSing


    Squall19 wrote: »

    Hidemyass is free and very traceable, you need to pay for a proper service, something like overplay where they dont keep logs!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭wolfyboy555


    Heartbreaking stuff!!

    What would happen if they fail to get a conviction for some reason??


  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭MrSing


    Heartbreaking stuff!!

    What would happen if they fail to get a conviction for some reason??

    Maybe the same as happened to the piratebay and its founders....Nothing


  • Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Evelynmc


    So what wud this mean for ppl who have payed for a sub to the site?


  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭RogerThis


    I taught torrents were died when they closed down suprnova, a few weeks later there was 10 other websites to take it's place.

    There are plenty of other file hosting services. XBMC will just move on to the next big thing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭wolfyboy555


    RogerThis wrote: »
    I taught torrents were died when they closed down suprnova, a few weeks later there was 10 other websites to take it's place.

    There are plenty of other file hosting services. XBMC will just move on to the next big thing.

    I hope so


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭jarvis


    Twitter is on fire with stories of the whitehouse website been attacked and went down along with a load of other sites. Talk of the FBI website next target. Could be bs but could be sopa protests along with this topic too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.
    In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.

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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭RogerThis


    Blikes wrote: »
    Anonymous have taken the websites of The Department of Justice, The RIAA, Universal Music (UMG) and the MPAA offline in retaliation.

    http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/
    jarvis wrote: »
    Twitter is on fire with stories of the whitehouse website been attacked and went down along with a load of other sites. Talk of the FBI website next target. Could be bs but could be sopa protests along with this topic too.

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/
    http://www.fbi.gov/
    are both up.

    http://www.justice.gov/
    http://www.riaa.com/
    http://www.universalmusic.com/
    http://www.mpaa.org/
    are down


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    RogerThis wrote: »
    I taught torrents were died when they closed down suprnova, a few weeks later there was 10 other websites to take it's place.

    There are plenty of other file hosting services. XBMC will just move on to the next big thing.

    XBMC wasn't created to pirate movies/tv shows, it's been around long before icefilms and is a voluntary organisation.
    They don't have anything to do with "mega sites"/icefilms and didn't write the various plugins that were used to access icefilms


  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭RogerThis


    XBMC doesn't need streaming sites, it's been around long before icefilms and is a voluntary organisation.

    XBMC also didn't "need" torrent sites, but it helped. Streaming is where it's at and there is no going back.
    They don't have anything to do with "mega sites"/icefilms and didn't write the various plugins that were used to access icefilms
    It wasn't paid goons that wrote the icefilms addon, it volunteers in the XBMC project. XBMC.org was happy enough to host the addon for over a year.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    RogerThis wrote: »
    XBMC also didn't "need" torrent sites, but it helped. Streaming is where it's at and there is no going back.
    xbmc.org wrote:
    XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world"
    Helped what though?

    anyway for anyone interested in news on new plugin's check http://www.xbmchub.info/


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭token56


    Media999 wrote: »
    .Com domain controlled by US with servers in US also.

    What servers did they have in the US does anyone know? From what I understand it was just DNS servers they had rented out in the US?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    token56 wrote: »
    What servers did they have in the US does anyone know? From what I understand it was just DNS servers they had rented out in the US?
    Page 18
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment


  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭RogerThis


    Helped what though?

    Torrents helped greatly broaden the base for using a media player on a TV.
    anyway for anyone interested in news on new plugin's check http://www.xbmchub.info/

    There are still plenty of other streaming addons that are still allows to be discussed on xbmc.org, that wouldn't be allowed on boards.ie The icefilms addons thread got deleted on boards.ie 6 months ago.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,340 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    fbi site down now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    RogerThis wrote: »
    Torrents helped greatly broaden the base for using a media player on a TV.

    Faster and cheaper technology did that.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭wolfyboy555


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    fbi site down now

    Ha thats mad!

    Has anyone seen http://megavideo.bz/




    Actually doesnt seem to be working now....just said that it was the new megaupload site


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