Thread: Megaupload Taken Down On Piracy Allegations

Popular file-hosting site Megaupload, probably known to our readers for a variety of reasons, has been taken down after the FBI charged some of its staff with copyright infringement and “conspiracy to commit racketeering.” Seven people have been charged, and four arrested (in New Zealand), and the site itself appears to be down as authorities around the world closed in on the site’s resources.



Bizarrely, it was also just revealed that the CEO of the company is none other than Swizz Beats, the husband of Alicia Keys. Clearly the rabbit hole goes much deeper than the FBI expected.

Mr. Beats is just the acting CEO, and probably was brought on by founder Kim Dotcom as part of the site’s efforts to legitimize itself in the eyes of the law. Part of this effort was the publication of the so-called “Mega Song,” in which a number of musicians espouse the service as a useful and fast way of transferring files.

In December, Will.I.Am, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and the others pulled their support, and it was claimed that they never consented to appearing in the video, which was subsequently removed from YouTube.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/meg...y-allegations/

Where could be a link to this Mega Song, this is what I am wondering.

This scare anyone else from the USA?

first rapidshare was made to scare away the users and now megaupload is being taken down. :(

man i am scared for the p2p/warez world.

Why would there be cause for fear from people in the US?

Originally Posted by zonked

first rapidshare was made to scare away the users and now megaupload is being taken down. :(

man i am scared for the p2p/warez world.

What about Usenet as far as I know it's next to impossible to filter/get caught using/take down
Though it seems a lot more complicated than using a torrent tracker and costs money although I did know of a temporarily free service that gave you 1Mbit free download speed. Never used it though but looks to be the future.

Originally Posted by zonked

first rapidshare was made to scare away the users and now megaupload is being taken down. :(

man i am scared for the p2p/warez world.

You forgot Hotfile who deleted in February 2011 (wow, already an year passed) all the premium accounts of the big uploaders who had terrabytes of material. To me this was quite a heavier blow than rapidshare changing their rewarding system to something...not rewarding.

Here:


Mod Edit: Link removed - Phishng Site

It's fake.

They can't even spell "Phishing" right.