Megaupload shut down by Feds.

jarvis

According to affiliated press. No link as its just a flash on their site so go look.

What will this mean for icefilms and xbmc etc

But more importantly what about my photos and home made videos I have stores there????

If wrong forum, sorry.

McLEAN, Va. — Federal prosecutors in Virginia say they have shut down one of the world’s largest Internet file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.

An indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after Web sites shut down in protest of two Congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.

Megaupload.com has claimed it is diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.

The indictment says that at one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular Web site in the world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indictment-charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.html?_r=1

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Basq

19th January 2011...

.. the day IceFilms died!

TheMilkyPirate

It's a pity that's the first time i had heard of icefilms, It looked good.

TsuDhoNimh

Basq wrote: »

19th January 2011...

.. the day IceFilms died!

And then a year later on the exact same date this happens.

Blikes

It's down but what makes you think it's been shut down by the feds, i don't see anything on affiliated press website or am i missing something?

Apparently it's true, twitter is awash with megaupload tags and outrage

Gran Hermano

Blikes wrote: »

It's down but what makes you think it's been shut down by the feds, i don't see anything on affiliated press website or am i missing something?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indictment-charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.html?_r=1

Blikes

Could this be the doing of Universal after the very public Megasong Spat?

osullic

Ah my megavideo account has cost me so much money.Outraged!

Krieg

They could end up doing what newzbin did last year and just move servers outside the country, but apparently those arrested are looking at 20 years prison for this.

yoyo

Just a reminder folks not to discuss any illegal activities in this thread. Please also don't include links to illegal content

Nick

Cuddlesworth

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?

Gran Hermano

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

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?

Dont think it's a publicity stunt
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-department-charges-leaders-of-megaupload-with-widespread-online-copyright-infringement

Rabidlamb

Surprised they've had the clout to do this, I remember when mininova & torrentspy suffered the same fate but they were torrent hosting sites, not direct download.
Can't see anyone renewing their subs to any of these sites while there's this uncertainty.
I bet Rapidshare & Fileserve are bricking it.

jarvis

I have around 10gb of photos etc from the last 5 years stored on their servers. I'm sure I probably have 90% of the stuff on different hard drives etc but I had it all in one place and zipped into 3 month sections.
Boo.
Boo hop.

Cuddlesworth

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Dont think it's a publicity stunt
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-department-charges-leaders-of-megaupload-with-widespread-online-copyright-infringement

Timing is too good. And FBI can and have been directly influenced before by political decisions. Either way, not a great type of site to host in America.

Rapidshare will be fine, they have fought plenty of cases in Germany to stave off anything like this.

Mycroft H

Ahhh bollocks.....

I had 9 months of premium left with them.

carlcon

Fingers crossed the guys at IceFilms can figure something out, but I fear this has made them obsolete.

What a kick in the teeth that is.

As far as I'm aware, IceFilms was the least dodgy website on the internet for that thing it did that we can't discuss.

jarvis

BX 19 wrote: »

Ahhh bollocks.....

I had 9 months of premium left with them.

Yeah mine was a lifetime subscription. I guess 5 years is a lifetime. Although reports say they face 20 years in prison so thats. Loser to a lifetime.
Some reports have alleged that alecia keys husband was the CEO!!!

Squall19

Basq wrote: »

19th January 2011...

.. the day IceFilms died!

Ahh for **** sake.

I just bought extended my membership for another 6 months.

****ing livid here, i'm broke, working in a **** job and now the only decent bit of entertainment for the evenings is gone.

You have to hate this crap hole sometimes ****ing ****, Iceflims was brillant.

America can **** off, *****.

Will Icefilms be able to move to rapidshare or other sharing site?

Voodu Child

I tried to warn people that they shouldn't be buying ATV2s specifically for Icefilms, but nobody wanted to listen.

Basq

TsuDhoNimh wrote: »

And then a year later on the exact same date this happens.

Alright... brain fart!

Squall19 wrote: »

Will Icefilms be able to move to rapidshare or other sharing site?

To be fair, Megaupload was the daddy in terms of speed IMO.

And copyrighted files never seem to last on Rapidshare!

Voodu Child wrote: »

I tried to warn people that they shouldn't be buying ATV2s specifically for Icefilms, but nobody wanted to listen.

At least people have Netflix and /or XBMC's varied video support (with movies stored on an external HDD) to fall back on!

Swampy

jarvis wrote: »

Boo hop.

Boo hop indeed.

token56

This is extremely annoying, had a premium account myself and used for backing up all my college work, among other things.

Were the megaupload servers hosted in the US does anyone know? I thought it was a Hong Kong base company?

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty anyway. Although I'm sure they wont stay down for ever, even if it means moving servers somewhere new and having to change their web address.

Voodu Child

Basq wrote: »

At least people have Netflix and /or XBMC's varied video support (with movies stored on an external HDD) to fall back on!

Yep, that's why I said specifically. Unfortunately there were people buying them just for the likes of Icefilms. And then recommending it to other people.... like it was some magic device that would give them 'free' movies forever.

Im_No_Superman

Basq wrote: »

19th January 2011...

.. the day IceFilms died!

The day I received my new Apple Tv 2! DOH!!

Basq

Voodu Child wrote: »

like it was some magic device that would give them 'free' movies forever.

But such a "magic device" does exist.. right?


.. RIGHT? :pac:

Just jailbroke and installed IceFilms on two ATV2's over the weekend - waste of my bloody time!

K.O.Kiki

witnessmenow

I installed ice films last week on my atv2 for the first time, and then on my pc... I have megaupload til March i think


But it goes to show you guys never buy more than 3 months for any of these grey area things (rapidshare, liveonlinefooty etc) you never know when this will happen

sink

They seized their servers, that means they're probably examining their content for copyright infringement, but that also means they are snooping through personal and commercial accounts that were simply using their servers legally for cloud storage. What happens if critical files are damaged lost or leaked?

To me it equates to raiding an entire estate of houses and snooping through innocent peoples homes because the have information a drug dealer resides in one of the houses.

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?

Squall19

witnessmenow wrote: »

I installed ice films last week on my atv2 for the first time, and then on my pc... I have megaupload til March i think


But it goes to show you guys never buy more than 3 months for any of these grey area things (rapidshare, liveonlinefooty etc) you never know when this will happen

Maybe it's a blessing you didn't have icefilms too long, I have been using it a good 18 months now.

It's heartbreaking, over the top, but I don't know what to with myself now, im going to drive my girlfriend mad

Bye bye Icefilms, we had some great times :o

LighterGuy

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.

MrSing

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

Basq

Good reading for those of you with no IceFilms, so plenty of free time!

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!!

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]

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

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.

Basq

Bloody catchy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc

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

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?

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?

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/

Squall19

MrSing wrote: »

News to me, where did you hear/see that?

http://www.hacker10.com/internet-anonymity/hma-vpn-user-arrested-after-ip-handed-over-to-the-fbi/

Media999

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

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.

MrSing

Squall19 wrote: »

http://www.hacker10.com/internet-anonymity/hma-vpn-user-arrested-after-ip-handed-over-to-the-fbi/

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

wolfyboy555

Heartbreaking stuff!!

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

MrSing

wolfyboy555 wrote: »

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

Evelynmc

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

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.

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

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.

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/