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File hosting Megaupload was closed for pirate activity Theprosecutor's office of the US state of Virginia decided to close the file-sharing service Megaupload as violating copyright law, reports on Thursday, January 19, Agence France-Presse.
According to the text of the accusation, due to the activities of the resource, the copyright holders lost more than $ 500 million. The charge was brought against seven individuals, as well as two legal entities: Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited corporations.
The defendants, including Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, face a maximum prison sentence of up to 20 years for criminal seizure of property, up to five years for conspiracy to infringe on copyright, and up to 20 years for money laundering.
Dotcom and three other defendants were arrested on January 19 in Auckland, New Zealand, according to a statement from the FBI and the US Department of Justice. Upon arrest, their assets in the amount of $ 50 million were frozen. Three more defendants are on the wanted list.
Kim Dotcom, whose real name is Kim Schmitz, was born in Germany. He has dual citizenship in Finland and Germany and has lived in Hong Kong and New Zealand. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Megaupload hosting was founded in 2005.
Megaupload allowed users to upload and download large enough files and was among the top twenty most popular sites in the world. Despite the fact that it was possible to download movies and music on the site for free, the resource was supported by celebrities - potential "victims" of the site's activities. So, musicians Kanye West, Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg, Alisha Keys and Mary J. Blige performed in his support.
On the eve of the closure of Megaupload, a number of popular Internet resources, including Wikipedia, suspended their work for 24 hours in protest against the adoption of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) anti-piracy bill, which obliges companies to stop cooperating with pirates at the request of authorities or copyright holders. Well-known Internet corporations like Google, Yahoo !, eBay, Facebook and Twitter also opposed the bill. They believe that the adoption of SOPA may actually mean the introduction of censorship on the Internet and significantly complicate the life of the Internet community.
The anti-piracy bill is currently under consideration in the US Congress.
http://lenta.ru/news/2012/01/20/nomoreupload
I'm in sorrow: '(
If strictly on the topic, then nifiga is not sad. The sites were run by millionaire gluttons, who have both cottages and swimming pools with a golf course ... In a word, they are still scammers. So serve it right.
If strictly on the topic, then nifiga is not sad. The sites are run by gluttonous millionaires, who have both cottages and swimming pools with a golf course ... In a word, they are still scammers. So serve it right.
And the files are also transferred by gluttonous millionaires?
A.Soldier of Light
This is true, almost certainly their competitors have cut it out, only as Nihiliant said, all sorts of dolbocapitalists understand, and millions of megaapload users have problems.
Nihiliantcup Are the
files transferred by the gluttonous millionaires too?
But the most important ones were arrested, that is, those very millionaires.
If you are talking about the consequences, including the inability for all other ordinary Internet users to upload files to this site, then another matter. I was talking about those who stupidly profited from these same users.
The word "profited" as it hints at the gain of one side at the expense of the other. I don't see how it can be applied to a file hosting service.
I don't see how it can be applied to a file hosting service.
What difference does it make what you see and what you don't? There is a fact ... Read here:
http://www.playground.ru/blogs/other/46832
http://www.playground.ru/blogs/other/46843
What are you talking about, if I could not find a "Vintage patch" for footsim ... If desired, everything is controlled.
The point is that it was one of the most useful exchangers - files were stored for a long time, good download speed, simple captcha. In addition, the trend itself is frightening.
But the anonymus rebelled ...
http://www.playground.ru/blogs/other/46922
The point is that it was one of the most useful exchangers - files were stored for a long time, good download speed, simple captcha. In addition, the trend itself is frightening.
Plyusanu.
Sima4
I have numbers of discs on my fingers to count
Soft- no. Except for those that went to the vidyuha as a bonus. There are 5 musical pieces. At least that's what the sellers said. But it will be so in the near future: Casper is in the store for $ 50. or a few minutes of downloading. What's better? )
Your Majesty
For Full Tilt it really is a shame. Didn't have time to withdraw? In addition to him, several small rooms were cut out. It was not the stars that were removed, the stars themselves are not a monolith - after the summer they disappeared from the tops of large affs for six months, returned recently and still have not taken the first places. They are all just registered on all sorts of banana islands, the Isle of Man, etc., the turnover goes past taxes + Pindos are forbidden to play and those who serve their deposits are fiercely welded, therefore they press, they are banned here for similar reasons.
FileSonic has closed file distribution, Uploaded.to does not let Americans in
Some file-sharing sites have begun to react to the sad events around MegaUpload and introduce bans / restrictions on file hosting. A few hours ago, a sad message appeared on the well-known FileSonic hosting: “All file sharing functions are now disabled. Our service can now be used only for uploading and downloading files that you yourself have uploaded. "
It is clear that such actions by FileSonic owners are caused by the recent FBI operation against MegaUpload. As you know, from Thursday to Friday night this site was closed, the domain was confiscated, and the founders and employees of the company were arrested or put on the wanted list.
It is likely that FileSonic's owners have received a direct threat that it could be the same if they don't take immediate action. How else can you explain that the company removed one of the main functions of the service and put its business at risk? It is not clear what will now happen with paid accounts that cost $ 9 per month or $ 55 per year. Will users get their money back? Or will they say that they have disabled additional "unnecessary" functionality, and the personal file hosting service is working fine? In any case, it is clear that the owners of FileSonic fear prevailed over greed: the risk of arrest for them now is more important than business prospects.
It is also interesting what other file hosting services will now undertake, for example, the largest of them - Dropbox. And also the popular RapidShare.
Another file hosting service Uploaded.to reacted to the story with MegaUpload in a different way. Instead of banning file sharing, they stopped allowing users with American IP addresses to enter the site. Thus, they show their attitude to the laws of the United States, the US special services, and at the same time they can hope that the FBI special operations will not affect them, because for those the most important thing is the work of the service in the United States. They don't care at all what happens outside America.
However, such cases of self-censorship are still sad. Shutting down sites from the American audience is exactly what the creators of SOPA and all the other fighters against unlicensed content on the Internet were trying to achieve.
Fortunately, there are a lot of workable file hosting services. It is impossible to close all of them, so attempts by American law enforcement agencies to create some kind of control system for file sharing on the Internet can only cause surprise. Information, by its very nature, wants to be free, and any prohibitions on file sharing are like trying to shove toothpaste back into a tube.
http://www.xakep.ru/post/58166
Dangerous business. The operation against Megaupload scared file sharing The
surprise operation of US law enforcement against one of the world's largest file sharing sites, Megaupload, made similar services seriously think about their future. Some sites that allow users to upload and download any data uncontrollably have decided to disable sharing functions altogether.
In particular, the Filesonic exchanger, which is quite popular recently, did this. According to the TorrentFreak blog, the site was blocking the ability to share a link to an uploaded file. Now only those who downloaded it have access to the data. In addition, the site stopped paying for the affiliate program, in which it shared revenue with the most active users.
A similar site Uploaded.to acted somewhat differently - it decided to block access to users from the United States. The owners of the resource, apparently, believe that it will be more difficult for the FBI to accuse them of online piracy. Visitors with US IP-addresses when entering the site see the inscription: "Site unavailable: our service is temporarily unavailable in your country. We're sorry." Officially, the site did not report blocking access from the United States, it is also unknown whether this is a temporary or permanent measure.
At the same time, the owners of some file hosting services claim that they have nothing to fear, since they do not violate the laws. This, in particular, was stated in an interview with the VentureBeat website by the CEO of the Mediafire file hosting Derek Labian. According to him, Mediafire's business model in no way encourages piracy: "We are a legitimate business targeting professionals like Box.net or Dropbox." At the same time, Labian notes, Megaupload and a number of other file hosting services provide privileges or even pay to users who upload a lot of data and whose files are then downloaded frequently. This can really be seen as a call to upload unlicensed content.
Meanwhile, a court in New Zealand on Monday refused to release on bail one of the main defendants in the "Megaupload case", 38-year-old founder of the file-sharing site, Kim Dotcom. He denies charges of internet piracy and money laundering, arguing that the US authorities are trying to portray him in the most unfavorable light.
Dotkom, born with the surname Schmitz, but then officially changed it, is a German citizen. The prosecutor at the trial said that if released on bail, the accused may flee, since he possesses the necessary funds, may own passports in other names and in the past had already fled from law enforcement agencies.
The founder of Megaupload and three of his colleagues were arrested last Friday during a raid on a Dotcom country house by the New Zealand police at the request of the US FBI. The operatives even had to use a special tool to open the safe room where Dotcom was trying to hide. The hacker group Anonymous decided to take revenge on the authorities of the United States and other countries for the closure of Megaupload with a global cyber attack.
The detained Internet businessmen are accused of organizing a criminal scheme that allowed them to earn $ 175 million in several years by illegally copying and distributing music, films and other content protected by copyright laws. Lawyers for the arrested argue that Kim Dotcom and colleagues were merely providing users with server space to store files, as startups like Dropbox or IT industry leaders like Google and Microsoft do.
The shutdown of Megaupload and the arrest of its executives came amid ongoing controversy in the United States over new laws against online piracy. They are opposed by both ordinary users and large companies, including Google.
The once popular file-sharing service Megaupload, shut down in 2012, will soon find a new life. Its founder, Kim Dotcom, announced this on Twitter, indicating January 20, 2017 as the date of the restart.
The businessman noted that most of the accounts previously registered in him will be restored, and all of them will receive Premium status. Users will be provided with 100 GB of free space for storing files and unlimited data transfer. That is, at the time of the restart, Megaupload will already have over 100 million subscribers. In addition, the service will work with the Bitcoin cryptocurrency and be able to sync with mobile devices.
Kim Dotcom (real name - Schmitz)
Kim Dotcom (real name - Schmitz)
Dotcom also stressed that the reincarnation of the file hosting service will take place exactly on the fifth anniversary of its scandalous closure - then Megaupload was accused of aiding piracy. Now its servers will be located outside the United States, whose authorities are still seeking the extradition of Kim Dotcom. In 2014, he declared himself bankrupt, explaining this by high expenses for the services of lawyers.
Recall that before the closure, when Megaupload was at its peak, its daily audience reached 50 million people, and it accounted for up to 4% of global Internet traffic.