the timing is ****ing unreal

massive size? this is the biggest storage site on the internet

this should be front page news on every site and there WILL be retributions

I just saw that. Newsweek said that Kim Dotcom (the owner) made $42 million last year (salary). Wow.

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massive size? this is the biggest storage site on the internet

One of the biggest. I think Megaupload fell out of favor about a year or so ago.

i get 95% of my 'merchandise' on megaupload, also keep in mind that megavideo was also shut down and together they are the biggest player in file hosting

not to mention the lifetime subscription that i have to both of them which im sure many other people have as well because the site was absolutely top notch for hosting large files 99% reliable for me over the years

we're talking about hundreds of thousands of sites that will have to scramble to reupload to another site and relink everything, and honestly if megaupload just went down what is stopping them from taking down rapidshare?

Interesting timing indeed.

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.18....

Uh oh, what does 1/19 spell backwards?!?!!

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$42 million last year

The government hates competition.

um isn't this exactly what the DMCA is for?

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we're talking about hundreds of thousands of sites that will have to scramble to reupload to another site and relink everything, and honestly if megaupload just went down what is stopping them from taking down rapidshare?

What is stop them taking down the whole of usenet now?

hmm... youtube is still up....wierd

Yeah no ****. Just wait until Youtube is taken down. That will be a fun day.

Good.

The fools will never learn. Just as with Napster, Limewire and a host of others to now include Megaupload, shut one down and 2 more take their place. Not to mention, they attack one format (p2p) and something more efficient takes its place (torrents). Until and unless they hit the kill switch, it will continue.

can someone tell me what a site like this is for OTHER than sharing copyright material

Like, if I sold barbie dolls — would I use them to store all the pictures of my barbie dolls for sale so I didn't need a large hard drive?

"Finger of death" was my old favorite tool.

Use it now, and your blocked from the net for 24 hours.

How times have changed from the wild west days of the web.

Sigh....

Pretty much demonstrates there is no real need for new legislation like SOPA if the U.S. can already shutdown international sites accused of piracy.

Megaupload and its mirrors will simply be moved to another address. Who needs DNS anyway ?

They are busy little beavers.

http://gizmodo.com/5877679/anonymous-kil....

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"Update: Anonymous says they've also knocked off the RIAA's site—looks down for us at the moment as well.

Update 2: Universal Music Group has also fallen off an e-cliff.

Update 3: Goodbye for now, MPAA.org.

Update 4: Affected sites are bouncing in and out of life, and are at the very least super slow to load. Anon agents are currently trying to coordinate their DDoS attacks in the same direction via IRC.

Update 5: The US Copyright Office joins the list.

Update 6: This Anon sums up the mood in their "official" chat room at the moment:

Danzu: STOP EVERYTHING, who are we DoSing right now?

Update 7: Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous' history—over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.

Update 8: the Anonymous DDoS planning committee is chittering so quickly, it's making my laptop fan spin.

Update 9: Major record label EMI is down for the count.

Update 10: La résistance est international—French copyright authority HADOPI bites the dust under Anon pressure.

Update 11: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has fallen and can't get up.

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What is stop them taking down the whole of usenet now?

USENET is distributed, rather than centralized. Best anyone can do is take down servers that participate in it.

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can someone tell me what a site like this is for OTHER than sharing copyright material

Like, if I sold barbie dolls — would I use them to store all the pictures of my barbie dolls for sale so I didn't need a large hard drive?

There actually IS a legitimate use for these sites and many coders who distribute community source stuff use them for the object binaries.

I distributed my Android builds on mediafire, which is the same idea and the builds I put up were perfectly legal. They're very big and hundreds of people might want them, which would pound the living **** out of my infrastructure. So I stick them up there. 200+MB builds are NOT trivial when ****loads of people want them.

I thought these guys were REAL good about taking down (and catching!) pirated stuff.

I guess not..... so much for that.

And what happens if DropBox is next? Do you have any idea how many straight-laced business users would be affected? File storage is file storage.

This is a perfect example of government over-reaching even without SOPA/PIPA in place.

And I don't even want to think about how much worse it could get if that monstrosity passes...

Looks like they don't need no stinking new law.

They are just going to start taking out sites they don't like, no need for SOPA.

**** laws anyway, laws mean nothing power is the only thing that matters.

From Gawker:

Here's one reason they've been able to muster so much firepower: Anonymous members are distributing a link that ropes internet users into an illegal DDoS attack against these websites simply by clicking it. The link is being shared widely on Twitter and in Anonymous chat rooms, often with no context except that it relates to Operation Megaload. I clicked it a few minutes ago because it was being spammed in an Anonymous chatroom and found myself instantly DDoSing Universalmusic.com, my computer rapidly pinging the page with no way to stop except quickly closing the window.

The link is a page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It link loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). When activated, LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic. Judging from a Twitter search, the link is being shared at a rate of about 4 times a minute, mostly by Spanish-speaking users, for some reason.

The thing is, DDoSing is a criminal offense that could earn you 10 years in prison, if you do it intentionally. With previous versions of LOIC, participants had to acknowledge this risk and press a button labeled "fire." But now, it appears some enterprising anonymous member has retooled it so that it automatically fires if you click an unassuming link and leave a window open.

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And what happens if DropBox is next?

Yep.
Y'all have fun with that cloud ****.