TheBrown57 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-file-sharing-website/The indictment is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States, according to the FBI. It accuses seven individuals and two corporations -- Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited -- of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment, which was unsealed on Thursday, says that at one point Megaupload was the 13th most popular website in the world.I really like that site too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Wow. That sucks. I use that site to send large, legitimate files to people like raw video I've shot and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrown57 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Wow. That sucks. I use that site to send large, legitimate files to people like raw video I've shot and whatnot.I used to have account when I was in High school, wasn't always for legitimate things but still it was nice to be able to upload that big of files and send to people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/19/2719223/megaupload-criminal-copyright-justice-department-conspiracyhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57362152-261/fbi-charges-megaupload-operators-with-piracy-crimes/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indictment-charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.html?_r=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Who wants to start a pool on how long it take TPB to suffer the same fate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Who wants to start a pool on how long it take TPB to suffer the same fate?Depends what legal precedence this case leaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentracer Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 so when is the industry going to start going after the guy who loans his buddy his movie? because people have been doing that ever since the vcr came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentracer Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) Who wants to start a pool on how long it take TPB to suffer the same fate?are you talking about the pirate bay? then probably can't touch them. they don't have anything stored on servers. the industry has tried and failed in the past to put a stop to torrents.the best they could ever do was shut down napster. torrents are just a tool. just like firefox is. going after a torrent link site is like going after mozilla for letting you use your browser to find the sites that link to torrents.the best hope for the industry with torrents are calling your isp about your download history. which they can monitor pretty easily. they tell your isp what you've been downloading they in turn send you a letter telling you to stop or they will have to take legal action.so that's where software like peerblock come in. it blocks anyone from seeing your downloads. and trust me, when it's running you be frigging amazed who and how many places are watching you on the internet. Edited January 19, 2012 by serpentracer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentracer Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) lol, check out what pirate bay says about sopa....http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txthere's your answer to that question about stopping tpb...SOPA can't do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we'll change top level domain from our current .org to one of thehundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs tomind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really. Edited January 19, 2012 by serpentracer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limitedslip7 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 As long as PirateBay can stay alive I'm still good... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisknight Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 TPB doesn't actually contain copyrighted material on their sites/servers though right? ...Just torrents that point your torrent client to the location of bits/pieces of the files/copyrighted material.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentracer Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 TPB doesn't actually contain copyrighted material on their sites/servers though right? ...Just torrents that point your torrent client to the location of bits/pieces of the files/copyrighted material..that's correct. you should read all of their legal letters and their responses. it's comedy gold.http://thepiratebay.org/legal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplysix Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 As long as PirateBay can stay alive I'm still good...this^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JStump Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) Looks like Anonymous is striking back! http://gizmodo.com/5877679/anonymous-kills-department-of-justice-site-in-megaupload-revenge-strikeAnd there have been so many tries to kill TPH yet they keep coming back, I think this is the most recent time they tried to take it down.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_raidSince the raid, Pirate Bay stated their disaster recovery plan of "a few days" worked correctly, but that they are now moving to redundant servers both in Belgium and Russia, and an aim of a few hours restoration time, should the servers be disrupted again. Following the raid the number of Pirate Bay users grew from 1 million to 2.7 million. The number of peers grew almost 5 times, from 2.5 million to 12 million.[1] It has been reported that the Pirate Bay claims more than 5 million active users. Internet traffic ranker Alexa.com ranks Pirate Bay as the 113th most popular website in the world.[18]I don't think they are going anywhere lolThis is a good film about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Film Edited January 19, 2012 by JStump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4DAIVI PAI2K5 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 are you talking about the pirate bay? then probably can't touch them. they don't have anything stored on servers. the industry has tried and failed in the past to put a stop to torrents.the best they could ever do was shut down napster. torrents are just a tool. just like firefox is. going after a torrent link site is like going after mozilla for letting you use your browser to find the sites that link to torrents.the best hope for the industry with torrents are calling your isp about your download history. which they can monitor pretty easily. they tell your isp what you've been downloading they in turn send you a letter telling you to stop or they will have to take legal action.so that's where software like peerblock come in. it blocks anyone from seeing your downloads. and trust me, when it's running you be frigging amazed who and how many places are watching you on the internet. I got that letter..... TWC blocked my internet for a while. Havent downloaded since. Never heard of peerblocker until after I got my letter. I figure they have me flagged now so I wont go near a site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 5600+ Anonymous DDoS blasting away... probably the largest attack ever implemented... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I got that letter..... TWC blocked my internet for a while. Havent downloaded since. Never heard of peerblocker until after I got my letter. I figure they have me flagged now so I wont go near a site.Twc did the same thing to a friend of mine. Easy solution: use a command line decrypt to break your neighbors wep key and beam off his router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JStump Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Wow, I didn't even think about how much money these guys had. Check out all the stuff they seized. http://gizmodo.com/5877715/all-the-insane-loot-seized-from-megauploads-crazy-owners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Wow, I didn't even think about how much money these guys had. Check out all the stuff they seized. http://gizmodo.com/5877715/all-the-insane-loot-seized-from-megauploads-crazy-ownersSo, how does the government seize all of this stuff without them even going to court yet? Is that how this normally works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JStump Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I want to say that is how it happens sometimes. I am sure if they are found not guilty they will get it back but since they used the money they gained from megaupload to purchase the stuff, it is kinda part of the trial. I could be completely wrong but think of it like a drug bust, anything they bought with drug money is confiscated normally right? Same thing here just with movies and software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4DAIVI PAI2K5 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Twc did the same thing to a friend of mine. Easy solution: use a command line decrypt to break your neighbors wep key and beam off his router.I have no idea what you just said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 swizz beatz is the CEO of megaupload. the more you know..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentracer Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) I got that letter..... TWC blocked my internet for a while. Havent downloaded since. Never heard of peerblocker until after I got my letter. I figure they have me flagged now so I wont go near a site.another way to do it is download through a proxy server. it keeps your ip anonymous so no one can tell where you're from or who you are.http://www.hidemyass.com/ Edited January 20, 2012 by serpentracer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4DAIVI PAI2K5 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 you think it would matter now. I figure I'm already on some kind watch list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serpentracer Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 you think it would matter now. I figure I'm already on some kind watch listyour ip cannot be seen by anyone when it's routed through a proxy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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