as you may already know, megaupload was shutdown earlier... read on for further information
According to the Associated Press the worlds largest file-sharing sites, MegaUpload.com, has been shut down. As it stands right now, the website is completely inaccessible.
Federal prosecutors have accused the owners of Megaupload with violating piracy laws, possibly exceeding 500 million dollars in pirated content. Once the 13th most popular website in the world, operating as a free file hosting service for any kind of content, Megaupload.com is potentially gone forever.
Megaupload.com staff claims they were always on top of complaints about material that might have been pirated, but for now the service and the content stored within are gone. Currently, there are no answers available as to whether or not the legitimate content stored there will be released.
For users who had previously used Megaupload, some alternatives to the service are RapidShare, MediaFire, DropBox, or Box.net among others. This story is developing, so expect some additional information soon.
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by http://www.xda-developers.com/feature/megaupload-com-has-been-shut-down/
you can read more about what anonymous said bellow
http://firstsearchblue.com/anonymous-tak...-doj-site/
and check
http://gizmodo.com/5877679/anonymous-kills-department-of-justice-site-in-megaupload-revenge-strike
they took down http://www.universalmusic.com and http://www.justice.gov
they also said that more is to come!
follow @anonops tweeter for updates!
https://twitter.com/#!/anonops
http://www.fbi.gov is under DDOS attack
http://www.mpaa.org is down too
http://www.RIAA.com is down
Oh snap, talk about opening up the flood gates
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lol load www.justice.gov it loads but no pictures just text
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new message
http://pastebin.com/WEydcBVV
sites taken down
justice.gov
universalmusic.com
riaa.org
mpaa.org
copyright.gov
hadopi.fr
wmg.com
usdoj.gov
bmi.com
fbi.gov
holy ****?
Yes my friend, this is big time indeed. I got on Twitter/@anonops and they are taking everything down. 5600 "operatives" are communicating through irc and systematically striking these sites. I would expect to see something on the national news about it in the morning.
That link that you posted rider has all of Sen. Dodds personal info on it. Sure he is a public figure and there are sites that metacrawl all that info together but its kind of erie that his is posted now with all this going on.
Edit:::: If you get a spam link labeled Operation Megaupload
DO NOT CLICK IT
This is how ANONYMOUS works and it will use your computer to ping these sites over and over. It is all over the internet and news agencies now.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddi...-fbi-websites-and-you-might-be-an-accomplice/
Right? It's crazy, they're pretty stupid to go after the FBI most wanted site.
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...stupid? These guys are international hackers....they are so far removed from giving a **** about the most wanted website .....they are the most wanted!
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o0stryxs0o said:
...stupid? These guys are international hackers....they are so far removed from giving a **** about the most wanted website .....they are the most wanted!
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Rebellion,simple as that. They took down the psn network for the same reasons. But, in reality it won't solve anything. I think this "problem" will turn against us in the bill...
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Related
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1083280
Please read and help fight! This guy is a thief and deserves to be shut down. Please help out the smartphone community!
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I agree this is extremely shady and should be discontinued...
Yes, there's a "but"...
The guy has no links, no information, no purpose for the money other than "it gets you full access". Once full access is achieved, presumably, one can then access the forums.
It seems as though he's charging money to allow access into a message board and not specifically to access ROMs.
Only a fool would purchase access to a forums which contains information freely available anywhere else with a little searching.
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I agree this is extremely shady and should be discontinued...
Yes, there's a "but"...
The guy has no links, no information, no purpose for the money other than "it gets you full access". Once full access is achieved, presumably, one can then access the forums.
It seems as though he's charging money to allow access into a message board and not specifically to access ROMs.
Only a fool would purchase access to a forums which contains information freely available anywhere else with a little searching.
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Agreed. It makes me really pissed because he has einherjar roms/mods/themes behind his donation wall. All of us at EDT put way too much hard work and countless hours into our work. And to have some punk ***** steal it, charge people for it, and claim its his own work by editing the build prop, really gets under my skin.This goes for all devs/teams. I speak for all of them.
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I support your cause, what this guy is doing is wrong. If he posts ANYTHING related to donation requirements on XDA then notify a senior mod and have his ass escorted to the door. Both promoting outside sites that are designed to compete directly with XDA and requiring donations is strictly against the rules. He's treading in waist high water here...
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Agreed. It makes me really pissed because he has einherjar roms/mods/themes behind his donation wall. All of us at EDT put way too much hard work and countless hours into our work. And to have some punk ***** steal it, charge people for it, and claim its his own work by editing the build prop, really gets under my skin.This goes for all devs/teams. I speak for all of them.
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And you have every right to deny anyone distribution rights to your product. So I'm behind you on this and will spread the word as I can.
Is there anything in the licensing for open source (GPL?) that can be done to send this person a C&D letter prior to lawsuits?
Why this guy?? When you have things like Appl**et pirating every Android app, hes small time.
Why this guy?? When you have things like Appl**et pirating every Android app, hes small time.
**Sorry about the double post, cant delete a post i guess.
Don't know if anyone knows this but he's also using fake users to post positive comments on his YouTube site. I researched this. For example, the user 'sfanua42' was used to post the following comment 4 weeks ago,
"THIS GUY RIGHT HERE IS THE BEST YOUTUBER/ CUSTOMER SERVICE GUY EVER! I RATE ***** ."
Clicking on this user brings up a profile that was created 4 weeks ago and hasn't been used in 4 weeks. It's also devoid of any user information whatsoever. He's a scam artist right down to the dotted line. I'm truly disgusted by this and hope something can be done about it and I feel for the original developers involved in the works available on his site.
First i want to start by saying im sorry that you all are not understanding what the 5 bucks is for . its hard to find things on the net and in the forums. When i first started i came here to xda i soft bircked my phone from a rom so i asked for help here and got yelled at, called names and told im posting in the wrong room . I didnt know, but still someone could of helped me instead i was made fun of and laughed at for my spelling here at xda . so i went out and found out alot about phones made a couple videos and poof everyone found me ....i was helping so many people, my phone was none stop ringing but i picked up . i helped them out by telling people where to go, how to get what they want was hard so i made a site it was free all day up intill 5 months ago . see the site was coasting me 250 a month that i did not have but people still needed help they tryed to come here but people where mean cuzz where noobs . so thats why at akaskriller.com it coast 5 bucks . everyone knows these roms are free on the net there not paying for the roms there paying for a just cause for helping people in need no matter what . for the roms i put out i say i hacked theme or themed them out . its fun to theme them out and help people ..
so im sorry if u all got it wrong and i give back to the devs that i take the most calls on lol but for real you all stop being silly and saying bad things about me.
and we pay peoples bills that can not ... ask your selfs y do you all care so much what others do for help?
seriously? why hide the roms behind donations then? why not post it freely and market it as a pay support site? why post paid apps for free behind the donation? why not post it all for no donation at all and post a link for 5.00 a month tech support? i'm certain this thread will be locked in no time and look forward to the humiliation headed your way.
I do not accept your apology. You are a fraud. You stole peoples work to make money
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it doesn't matter your logic for any of that.
1) you cannot advertise anything that has a registration/paywall on xda, it's against the forum rules (it's the same reason we don't see posts by samfirmware stuff anymore, even though we all know about it)
2) you cannot include links to services/devices you sell (it's fine to tell people of a download mode JIG and even to check ebay or other places, but to point directly to yours is also against the rules)
3) if you don't have the money to run the site, don't run it (why host anything at all beyond a few lightweight html files with explanations)
4) make the donation optional. register for the site for free and then people can donate if they want (hey, sounds an awful lot like what xda is)
5) do you have the permission of the ROM developers to repost their work elsewhere? (especially behind a lazy paywall)
if you can't follow xda's rules, then what do you expect to happen?
What you do is wrong!
1. You host warez on your site.
2. You steal all of out Dev's roms
3. Just link you "subscribers" to xda
Why not use something like forumotion.com to so you don't have to pay?
And the no credits?
This... this is going to get nasty unfortunately.
Be respectable people.
Suck my balls.
@aka , not s15 >.>
see this is xda all you all do is talk bad im sorry but there are no paid apps in site and app brain or 4share.com lol theres all your apps for free ... i tell you all and you dont here me
And the lying about creating a Gingerbread ROM with GPS?
I think the point that most are upset with is that you have done this in a sneaky manner and not asked any dev if it was okay to post their work. For us to put sometimes months into building a better rom and then you to take it change a couple icons or colors and then post it as your own work when you probably wouldn't know a XML from a bml and charge people for "support" which they get here for free. I personally have tried to answer every "noob" that has approached me and not once charged.
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You pay for 250 (A dedicated box) for your forum?
Damn. That's silly.
You are in breach of Apache Software License Version 2 & GNU General Public License Version 2.
You are in breach of your AdSense account by hosting copyrighted material, you have been reported - LINK
You have been reported to Gameloft for hosting their pirated/warez apps, they have notified their legal dept.
You have been reported to your web host - LINK - for hosting & distributing pirated/warez apps.
You have been reported to Paypal for profiteering off pirated/warez apps.
Enjoy the next few days.
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You pay for 250 (A dedicated box) for your forum?
Damn. That's silly.
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Quit trying to front dude. And if you're paying 250 a month for your site that's a joke. Learn the rules before you break them. All youre trying to do now is bend them. Quit taking other devastating work!!
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And it appears that most scammers would try to post an apology explaining their situation in order "recreate" their image again.
250? more like 10
Get Godaddy and pay that much.
We don't care you have a crappy website that costs that much.
The not helping? You think its just here? Look at your own forums buddy...
Someone here posted a link to one of your threads where someone asked if OC can be used on all of "your" roms, 1 reply "try it and find out"
Very nice answer?
Everyone here will hate you and probably do, you know why?
YOU STOLE WORK.
and now your trying to make excuses like a 5 year old kid lying about stealing his friends toy car.
Grow some balls kid.
andyharney said:
You are in breach of Apache Software License Version 2 & GNU General Public License Version 2.
You are in breach of your AdSense account by hosting copyrighted material, you have been reported - LINK
You have been reported to Gameloft for hosting their pirated/warez apps, they have notified their legal dept.
You have been reported to your web host - LINK - for hosting & distributing pirated/warez apps.
You have been reported to Paypal for profiteering off pirated/warez apps.
Enjoy the next few days.
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Your ****ed.
Ill give you 5 dollars to shut the hell up.....oh and gps on 2.3
s15274n said:
This... this is going to get nasty unfortunately.
Be respectable people.
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i thought exactly the same thing when i saw this lol. made damn sure i jumped in with justifiable questions and hope for an answer before it got locked. guess i'll pop some popcorn and watch the show.
ps. still hoping for some answers to my questions akaskriller.
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You pay for 250 (A dedicated box) for your forum?
Damn. That's silly.
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He doesn't have a dedicated server, his server IP is 216.17.96.218 and as you can see it goes nowhere. Its a shared IP.
{Over a twentytwo hundred views- i seem to have struck a nerve. Alot of us had this problem- then I solutioned it out for us all}
Says [ROM] in the title but theres no rom to be had????
You had this experience lately? They make you Click here... click there. These guys make an XDA member play whack a-mole-look-for-the-rom link games?
Because of proprietary registration requirement some featured roms on this page cannot be downloaded by XDA members. Why is this being allowed?
XDA set up a perfectly reasonable system that worked JUST fine. WE DON'T NEED 50 websites to sign up for!!! - to get roms. All we need was XDA.
A few groups think they are entitled to change XDA(to its detriment) into their *****. Post links to these roms I'll put them here. We need to break these folks out of this habit. They say it isnt against XDA rules for them to do this- well then it wont be against XDA rules for me to post them
right in this post at the bottom of this post.
Its what ANDROID is all about. Open Source.
Mik and this Sac's Kingdom rom and some others cant be downloaded. (I like their roms- since I'm trying to download em-duh)
Has money changed hands? what is the deal?
Why are these roms --that we can't get unless we register on their crappy webpages-- featured on XDA Android Rom page? WTF?
And for all the sychophants, buttsniffer brigade and scene kids- racing to their rescue-:you see their troll comments in abundance: If every rom you ever download you need to sign up for their proprietary page- why do we need XDA then?
If this continues- XDA is cutting its own throat. I won't use a rom I have to sign up elsewhere to get it.
(So please post mirror links to Mik Roms and Sacs Kingdom Roms so the rest of us don't have to register)
XDA set up a perfectly reasonable system that worked JUST fine. WE DON'T NEED 50 websites to sign up for!!! - to get roms. All we need was XDA. This is a game changer.
I understand the sychophants and scenies will do what ever they are told.
But XDa had it right and these people are messing up a good thing- tryna make it their thing. And I call bull****!.
And this isn't a Q&A. This needs to be addressed by XDA- or we can just post links and nobody would be mad.
We just want straight-up Rom links!
If two guys do it- MIK and SACS to drive traffic for their own websites- it'll be prevalent in a week.
And XDA will not have any relevance.
The buttsniffers, sychophants and scene kids say- it only takes a minute to register over here, then over there, then here and here too! yeah! and there and...- blah blah blah.
What you gonna do when synergy or Kings or ACS or -take your pick- does this same thing?
And all the rest of them do it?
This needs to stop NOW.
here:
Hit thanks if you agree with me...
I agree completely so I am willing to give up this second post on the thread for what you guys need it for
No -rom development that doesnt lead to actual roms dont belong here
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hey bro
i know this is an important question but it belongs in the Q&A.
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Asking why XDA allows this isnt a Q and A- these lames are taking up space that actual developers offering real roms can use. This practice needs to stop and wont be put in a lil box elsewhere. All these guys are doing with tacit XDA approval- it seems- is promoting proprietary webpages that take people off XDA. To their site. They offer us nothing but a registration elsewhere. They are just taking up XDA space and tryingto get XDA members onto their own webs.
I agree.
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Damn it sounds like some folks got sour milk in their cereal. All of the sites you are complaining about are "FREE" to register on and do not ask anything or for any money from you to get access to their links. So if XDA admins don't have a problem with it why should anyone else. After all it only takes about 60 second more out of your day.
"Hell I don't know"
selders59 said:
Damn it sounds like some folks got sour milk in their cereal. All of the sites you are complaining about are "FREE" to register on and do not ask anything or for any money from you to get access to their links. So if XDA admins don't have a problem with it why should anyone else. After all it only takes about 60 second more out of your day.
"Hell I don't know"
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+1 completely agree.
i got no beef with signing up for something to download any of these roms. my phone is nothing without these devs, and i will get the roms from wherever they want to post them. if i had the time to sit down and tweek a rom to the way i like it i would but i dont. taking the extra 2 minutes to signup for another site is pretty ok with me
noirelion said:
Because of proprietary registration requirement featured roms on this page cannot be downloaded by XDA members. Why is this being allowed?
Mik and this SAc s Kingdom rom and some others cant be downloaded.
Has money changed hands? what is the deal?
Why are these roms that we can't get unless we register on thier crappy pages- featured on XDA Android Rom page? WTF?
Hit thanks if you agree with me...
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If you want the ROM take a couple of seconds and sign up for free on the developers site. Simple as that. Just be lucky they link there site here for us to get the ROM in the first place.
Both rom are my favorites!!
But never complain about how to download it..
Dont be lazy..
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Oh gee- we get to look around on each new proprietary website for 15 minutes to sign up for something we dont want! The way it was was fine- these people are making XDA irrelevant. I don't want XDA to become irrelevant.
I want it the way it was and these people need to change their practices. XDA people need to get their head out of their asses.
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Asking why XDA allows this isnt a Q and A- these lames are taking up space that actual developers offering real roms can use.
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Talk about taking up space. If your not happy here then feel free to move some place else. I've never had any issues downloading a rom on this site, 99% of the time I don't even have to go to the developers site to download the rom. They are doing this for us for free and your whinning about how to get the ROM?
Holly crap.. i was just thinking this today..
I want to download sacs new sense 3.0 rom but i have to register.. anyone have a mirror or straight link to his rom..
Great job to them for making this rom but cmon..
Haven't used a mik rom or any rom I need to sign up somewhere else.
wickedskills said:
If you want the ROM take a couple of seconds and sign up for free on the developers site. Simple as that. Just be lucky they link there site here for us to get the ROM in the first place.
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Won't use a rom I have to sign up elsewhere to get it. XDA set up a perfectly reasonable system that worked JUST fine. We don't need 50 websites to sign up for- to get roms. All we need was XDA. This is a game changer.
I understand the sychophants and scenies will do what ever they are told. But XDa had it right and these people are messing up a good thing- tryna make it their thing. And I call bull****!.
when someone who built the rom and spent HOURS to do and YOUR complaining because he wants you to become a member on his site (WHICH IS FREE) where you can probably find more cool stuff about the rom you want. stop being lazy and selfish. #bad.
Oh no! Something different than i'm used to! The only response is rage!
Go elsewhere? Thats what I'm trying NOT to do
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Talk about taking up space. If your not happy here then feel free to move some place else. I've never had any issues downloading a rom on this site, 99% of the time I don't even have to go to the developers site to download the rom. They are doing this for us for free and your whinning about how to get the ROM?
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I like XDA just as it is. I DONT want to go ELSEWHERE: to someone elses website to sign up for their stuff. I want to stay at XDA in a system that worked just fine.
Kinda toolish to tell me to leave XDA "if I'm not happy"... thats kinda weird logic- I want to stay on XDA- not leave it to go to proprietary websites. You need to take your pills.
noirelion said:
I like XDA just as it is. I DONT want to go ELSEWHERE: to someone elses website to sign up for their stuff. I want to stay at XDA in a system that worked just fine.
Kinda toolish to tell me to leave XDA "if I'm not happy"... thats kinda weird logic- I want to stay on XDA- not leave it to go to proprietary websites. You need to take your pills.
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Your whinning!
Or you could just do what I do and not use the Rom. If they want to link to their hard earned site for their hard earned credit, let them. I don't want to register, I don't download, and I let everyone else be happy and merry and move on with their lives.
I think I want XDA to stay like it was and not become merely a quick cover page for 50 proprietary websites. I don't want to get in a troll/flame war with some nobody. I just want up and down links to roms(like its been). And i'm saying that if your frauding XDA just to post web page links for your own stuff- its you who need to "go elsewhere".
Please read the Forum Rules:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=642
11. Don’t post with the intention of selling something.
Don’t use XDA to advertise your product or service. Proprietors of for-pay products or services, may use XDA to get feedback, provide beta access, or a free version of their product for XDA users and offer support, but not to post with the intention of selling. This includes promoting sites similar/substantially similar to XDA-Developers.com.
Do not post press releases, announcements, links to trial software, or commercial services. unless you’re posting an exclusive release for XDA-Developers.com.
Encouraging members to participate in forum activities on other phone related sites is prohibited.
Off-site downloads are permitted if the site is non-commercial and does not require registration.
Off-site downloads from sites requiring registration are NOT encouraged but may be permitted if the following conditions are met:
A) the site belongs to a member of XDA-Developers with at least 1500 posts and 2 years membership who actively maintains XDA-Developers' support thread(s) / posts, related to the download,
B) the site is a relatively small personal website without commercial advertising/links (i.e. not a competitor forum-based site with purposes and aims similar to those of XDA-Developers.com.)
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Given your recent posts in aamikam's MikRoms thread, prior to this thread, one can logically presume you are complaining about aamikam's posts.
aamikam has just over 2600 posts, joined in October 2008, and actively maintains a thread related to the MikRom download.
He is following the rules. YOU however, have disregarded them...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695878
Im sure a lot of XDA users use MegaUpload . This is getting out of hand . MPAA is ruining the internet as we know it . Due process in America has been thrown out the window . Who will be next . What's your opinion on this matter .
Update: Megaupload is back up megavideo.bz
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Thread closed. 1. This belongs in Off Topic. 2. This is already in Off Topic. 3. Please search before posting. ~TRM
For your reading (un)pleasure.
New York Post
MediaBeat
Guess Alicia Keys is gonna have to get a new New York State of Mind since Swizz Beatz is going down.
They also said that RapidShare and MediaFire may be looked at. Wonder if this will extend to something like Dropbox too?
I think the internet itself is coming to an end. So sad :'(
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That definitely SUCKS!
Most users use multiupload which uses other host sites that seem to be fine..for now
Personally, megaupload was inevitably going down. There was so much pirated content on it, most getting removed anyways, might as well take down site.
Not siding with MPAA but this argument over pirated material is a mess.
I thought the guy from Steam said it best, people wont use pirated materials if your service is better.
The MPAA said that VHS would mean the end of the cinema industry because people would be able to record their own movies and view them endlessly without paying.
The RIAA argued with the same basis about casettes and recordable media such as CDs.
Yet, movies cost hundreds of millions of dollars in the making which are recovered in matter of weeks. Musicians must pay a share of the money they make with gigs to the RIAA so they can "defend" their interests.
If there's anyone who's not losing a single buck are these guys in the MPAA and the RIAA, far from defending anyone else's rights other than their own.
the MPAA and RIAA should both get broomsticks shoved up their asses, but in the end this was arrest with due process. it just shows how unnecessary SOPA and PIPA are, since copyrights can still be protected under the current law. I mean lets be honest, as much as it sucks we all knew megaupload was hosting illegal file sharing and at the end of the day that is breaking a law no matter how you spin it.
I agree with you. Same thing happened when they shut Limewire down. Who couldn't see that coming. Really surprised any torrent sites are still up.
So lets say they shut down Rapidshare, 4share,...how do we get ROMs? Email? Even XDA has a size limit on uploads.
It is going to go from Internet to Intranet or GovNet.
I want to know how the FBI, A US based law organization is able to have non US Nationals Arrested and take down a site that is not extra-national. How can this be legal or even accepted by other countries.
MegaUpload is not based in the US nor were the arrestees. How does thoe FBI have jurisdiction for this. Just because a website can be accessed in the US does not mean that the FBI has the right to close the site down.
Quite frankly I don't care if New Zealand has an agreement with the US. The laws were not broken on US Soil, the servers were not hosted in the US.
This is like arresting someone form the US because they broke a law that is only a law in Algeria. I seen no difference here.
countries do have extradition agreements with each other and do cooperate in certain areas of law enforcement, ie terrorism and drug enforcement. So this is not something really extraordinary.
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Woodrube said:
I agree with you. Same thing happened when they shut Limewire down. Who couldn't see that coming. Really surprised any torrent sites are still up.
So lets say they shut down Rapidshare, 4share,...how do we get ROMs? Email? Even XDA has a size limit on uploads.
It is going to go from Internet to Intranet or GovNet.
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it's possible to create a site that simply hosts the roms that we would download. the problem comes back again to the regulation of the internet since people can simply abuse any file sharing sites. you may think that regulation is not required but it really is. remember the deregulation philosophy of the financial sector and the resultant excessive leveraging that lead to the biggest financial meltdown since the great depression. the problem as with any regulation is to get it right so that it doesn't hinder innovation but simultaneously protects multiple rights of multiple parties. our freedom of speech will never outweigh others right to property. the internet is essentially a public forum so a social contract has to be drawn between all people in terms of the conduit in this forum. just as we have a right to free speech, we don't have a right to threaten someones life. i think this is just some more growing pains for what is still new technology and media.
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countries do have extradition agreements with each other and do cooperate in certain areas of law enforcement, ie terrorism and drug enforcement. So this is not something really extraordinary.
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it's possible to create a site that simply hosts the roms that we would download. the problem comes back again to the regulation of the internet since people can simply abuse any file sharing sites. you may think that regulation is not required but it really is. remember the deregulation philosophy of the financial sector and the resultant excessive leveraging that lead to the biggest financial meltdown since the great depression. the problem as with any regulation is to get it right so that it doesn't hinder innovation but simultaneously protects multiple rights of multiple parties. our freedom of speech will never outweigh others right to property. the internet is essentially a public forum so a social contract has to be drawn between all people in terms of the conduit in this forum. just as we have a right to free speech, we don't have a right to threaten someones life. i think this is just some more growing pains for what is still new technology and media.
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There is just something that is very unsettling about the fact that the FBI (A US law organization) is able to stop businesses in other countries just because it violates US Laws and has the ability to have extra-national citizens arrested on their behest. I personally only see this as being prudent if there was a law broken while the person was on US Soil and thus are under US laws at the time.
Unsettling yes. However, the media companies want justice. Don't be surprised when RapidShare goes down next.
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Alex530 said:
I think the internet itself is coming to an end. So sad :'(
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There once was the FidoNet, I remember, now the Internet, and if it goes down, we might see something new
I'm sure there will be a major inovative developement effort to defend the PIPA. Or I will just have to move back to Russia, given they don't have "chinese firewall" yet
Megaupload is back Megavideo.bz
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Raistline said:
There is just something that is very unsettling about the fact that the FBI (A US law organization) is able to stop businesses in other countries just because it violates US Laws and has the ability to have extra-national citizens arrested on their behest. I personally only see this as being prudent if there was a law broken while the person was on US Soil and thus are under US laws at the time.
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well megaupload had servers in Virginia. the international factor is another complication in fighting piracy over the internet. when other countries don't act it does add pressure for America to act unilaterally to protect it's property rights. this mutual action of multiple countries proved that we don't need unilateral action and countries can in fact cooperate on this issue.
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Megaupload is back Megavideo.bz
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its still hasn't worked at full source yet. i wonder what would happen to the old megaupload links. can they be transferred or are they gone forever?
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detdett said:
its still hasn't worked at full source yet. i wonder what would happen to the old megaupload links. can they be transferred or are they gone forever?
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I would THINK they'd be gone until they get access back to their own servers because thats where files are stored. They should've gone with cloud options...
MU was sooo good for downloading at high speed.... the other ones just can't match =(
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detdett said:
MU was sooo good for downloading at high speed.... the other ones just can't match =(
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I agree, MU was my best option for uploading super fast, always was. Multiupload is good, but it has a slow as hell uploading time.
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I agree, MU was my best option for uploading super fast, always was. Multiupload is good, but it has a slow as hell uploading time.
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now i have no choice but go with snailServe or snailSnoic
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Droidgamers site appears to have been hijacked. When you go to their site, it redirects and attempts to launch a trojan!!
I cannot emphasize enough, do not visit Droidgamers for the time being! Sucks, I like that site.
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Droidgamers site appears to have been hijacked. When you go to their site, it redirects and attempts to launch a trojan!!
I cannot emphasize enough, do not visit Droidgamers for the time being! Sucks, I like that site.
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Well that's ****. People should be going after big company's not us small independent site's. or the people it's really affecting the consumers.
Heard from twitter anonymous ment to be taking down the hole net on sat. Would love to see that, but won't happen.
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hyjackers should not target any sites and actually just **** right off because they are nothing but anoying
Atleast Apple is still up!