Earlier today, the U.S. government shut down Megaupload.com, one of the largest and longest running cyberlockers in the business. Its founders and a handful of employees have been arrested, as well, and charged with copyright infringement. The indictment and arrests come just one day after major websites including Wikipedia and Google staged anti-SOPA "blackouts." SOPA was created ...
Read full articleQuote:Had... it ain't around no more. And if they even try to make it come back, I pretty sure it'll get seized just as fast.
Megaupload has 150 million registered users and 50 million daily uniques, placing it in the top 25 most trafficked websites on the entire planet.
Originally posted by Mysttic:Don't think that MU is down for the count just yet. This whole thing is going to blow up something fierce. :p
Quote:Had... it ain't around no more. And if they even try to make it come back, I pretty sure it'll get seized just as fast.
Megaupload has 150 million registered users and 50 million daily uniques, placing it in the top 25 most trafficked websites on the entire planet.
Originally posted by ivymike:People are entirely too content for that sort of thing. Now if there were a nationwide blackout for a few days and they couldn't watch reality television or post on facebook... that would be another story entirely. :p
Us americans need to take back our country NOW. I'm not talking about pussy ass protests. Anybody remember the French Revolution??? We need that RIGHT NOW in this once-proud country of ours....
Originally posted by mystic:AMEN.
while I'm up on my soapbox and sorry to all :
when a government takes the view of a biz over the people they represent they its called a dictatorship the more money Hollywood pumps into Washington the more they show that they will protect any special interest groups over its people for a price... and we elected these bozo's, and they are speaking for us all to the world... maybe they are right we can't make good decisions for our selves ... after all we voted for them or maybe we didn't and were just to busy to care... sorry to the world maybe we wont make that choice next time...
Originally posted by ivymike:Too bad it wont happen because people are too lazy to learn about history and the principles our country was founded on. Any upheaval wont happen until we are pushed to the breaking point and all that will start is a civil war between the citizens and the government.
Us americans need to take back our country NOW. I'm not talking about pussy ass protests. Anybody remember the French Revolution??? We need that RIGHT NOW in this once-proud country of ours....
Originally posted by LordRuss:Word. Well put.
This really is an outrage. What is to happen with all the legitimate accounts that are on the servers?
Under what truthful authority can they possibly arrest these people? It would be like arresting an apartment owner for one of his tenants being a drug dealer. Maybe he/she knew about the drug dealer & for one reason or another could/couldn't do anything about it, but the guy was still living there.
Everyone else that lived in the complex was fine, it's just this guy. Police come & arrest him, but no, they have to arrest the "Owner" (the landlord/manager) too, because he's just as guilty. And then go the extra mile to round up all the people that came & went out of the complex & you might as well arrest all the folks living there as well cause their guilty of it too.
I'm hoping this fish is so big that it breaks the hook, turns around & swallows them all whole. I hope they can all get lawyers so fat, sweaty & all their middle names are legally "something that sounds like a dick" and they sue all involved back well before the Big Bang.
It's a different form of greed folks. It's a pompousness given the position of power and it is driven by the wheels of those with a LOT of money.
Originally posted by Mrguss:Then give any and all of your support to Ron Paul and then we can start to really push back.
US DoJ wanted to wait until SOPA passed to take down Megaupload. Once they realized it wouldn't pass, they decided to take it down anyway.
This is the Dictatorship we have in US Today....Hollywood, etc $$$ turning The US Gov. against anybody, and when is not them; is any other corporation doing the same !
....same freaking song over and over again !
Originally posted by SoulGLOW:
Originally posted by Mrguss:Then give any and all of your support to Ron Paul and then we can start to really push back.
US DoJ wanted to wait until SOPA passed to take down Megaupload. Once they realized it wouldn't pass, they decided to take it down anyway.
This is the Dictatorship we have in US Today....Hollywood, etc $$$ turning The US Gov. against anybody, and when is not them; is any other corporation doing the same !
....same freaking song over and over again !
Originally posted by SoulGLOW:No Thx. I am with OWS !
Originally posted by Mrguss:Then give any and all of your support to Ron Paul and then we can start to really push back.
US DoJ wanted to wait until SOPA passed to take down Megaupload. Once they realized it wouldn't pass, they decided to take it down anyway.
This is the Dictatorship we have in US Today....Hollywood, etc $$$ turning The US Gov. against anybody, and when is not them; is any other corporation doing the same !
....same freaking song over and over again !
Originally posted by Xian:Thx.
This should make people stop and take a second look of storing their data in the cloud. Many legitimate users of megaupload are being inconvenienced now. XDA Developers, the developers of apps for Android, Windows Phone, and other mobile devices had over 200,000 links to Megaupload, all non-functional now.
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