Astatalk - Megaupload/Fileserve/Filesonic All Gone......More to come?? thread

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nic6 20 Jan 2012, 00:19 #

The first of many to collapse?
I assume their entire file archive has been wiped.
Who next? Rapidshare, Oron, Mediafire?

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cwmboi 20 Jan 2012, 01:07 #

My money is on Fileshare (Maybe Rapidshare).

Very worrying times indeed

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tHeGeNiUs 20 Jan 2012, 03:53 #

That's awful

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bodmas 20 Jan 2012, 06:54 #

Opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act continues to grow in Congress, with 122 members having declared their opposition compared to 63 supporters as of Thursday evening, according to ProPublica. This is a dramatic upswing for the opposition, as on Wednesday the counts were 80 supporters and a meager 31 opponents.

ProPublica, an independent non-profit newsroom, determines the standing of each senator and member of Congress based on two factors: whether a member is a sponsor of the two bills, and the member's voting record on the current bills' precursors and alternatives.

In the House of Representatives, opposition has grown to 100 opponents, compared to just 26 supporters. Unfortunately, the Senate still has more supporters than opponents, with a total of 37 to 22. In the Senate, PIPA needs 60 supporters out of 100 to pass, and a majority of two-thirds (67 votes) to prevent a veto from President Obama, should he choose to do so. If the current ratio of supporters to opposition remains constant for the rest of the senators, PIPA would pass.

ProPublica's numbers as of 8:30pm CST, January 19, are as follows:

# Senate and House of Representatives: 63 supporters, 122 opponents
# Senate: 37 supporters, 22 opponents
# House of Representatives: 26 supporters, 100 opponents
# Democrats (Senate and House): 40 supporters, 55 opponents
# Republicans (Senate and House): 22 supporters, 67 opponents
# Independents: 1 supporter

Currently, Republicans have far more opponents than supporters of the bills, while the split on the Democrat side is a little closer. The sole listed independent, Senator Joseph Lieberman, is unsurprisingly listed under the supporting side.

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cwmboi 20 Jan 2012, 17:32 #

The bill is not passed yet.

Yet Megaupload is still taken down.

America does what America wants.

FEDS will do what ever they want.

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prt1 21 Jan 2012, 01:45 #

FYI Fileserve....no longer shows payout info.....if they owed you money you might be SOL

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Mar 23 Jan 2012, 01:07 #

I am thinking Fileshare will be next.. mediafire is not well advertised as the rest... what can you do?? I am sure as these go down others will arise if not soon in time...

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coolguy005 23 Jan 2012, 04:21 #

it is for our fellow american brothers and all over to support the opposition of sopa and let representatives know that they gonna lose vote if they support...these politicians uinderstand only langauge of vote and and elections ....let us start the new fight against internet freedom and support wikipedia reddit and all other websites and let us bring down politicians who support these nonsense and set a precedent so that no one again tries to take our right to free knowledge and our freedom .............amen

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coolguy005 23 Jan 2012, 04:23 #

dont guess who shall be next try to ensure no one should be next ........why all holywod should be allowed to earn and not anyone else and why should hollywood millionaires be allowed to earn profits ......let us call our isps to stop all high speed internet services coz without downloading things which i am sure will not be anymore we dont need high speed costly internet services anymore

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coolguy005 23 Jan 2012, 04:25 #

let us downgrade our isp packages to less then 500 kb plans rathen than mbps ....this way powerful telecom companies and internet service providers will have to join us .....

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midamah 23 Jan 2012, 07:45 #

Now Filesonic has ended their "sharing" feature. :O( sad times we live in...I'm waiting to see what happens to mediafire.

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cwmboi 23 Jan 2012, 17:30 #

Latset news on Filesharing sites posistions
Copied and pasted from a reliable source

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MegaUpload - Closed.
FileServe - Closing, does not sell premium.
FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S..
UploadStation - Locked in the U.S..
FileSonic - the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).
VideoBB - Closed! Will disappear soon.
Uploaded - Banned in the U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost - Deleting all material (will leave executables, pdfs, txts)
Videoz - Closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.
4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors. Pro FBI
Org Torrent - Could vanish with everything within 30 days "he is under criminal investigation"
Network Share mIRC - Awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrente everything.
Koshiki - Operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA
Shienko Box - 100% working China / Korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA
ShareX BR - group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPA

Japan, China and Korea have said NO to the FBI, and that even if laws are passed in the USA,
they will not have any value within the sovereignty of their countries!

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prt1 23 Jan 2012, 17:49 #

Depositfiels and Filefactory will probably be coming soon also, the whole warez community is going down the crapper, sites like this and many others I know of will not have too much to share soon....ISP's will lose on it in the long run too because people will not be needing these 'bundled' internet packages as much either

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_barely_breathing_ 23 Jan 2012, 21:36 #

Excuse my ignorance, but would they still track the content down if somebody uploaded and episode of Glee or whatever under the title 'linda's wedding video.avi' or something? I mean, how do they discover if it's illegal? By the file name or by watching/listening to the stuff uploaded? /curious.

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prt1 23 Jan 2012, 21:49 #

well, they may also go by downloads/activity, there isnt gonna be 1000's of downloads/activity for 'Linda"s Wedding' unless she is REALLY popular and naked (lol)

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cwmboi 23 Jan 2012, 21:51 #

_barely_breathing_ said:Excuse my ignorance, but would they still track the content down if somebody uploaded and episode of Glee or whatever under the title 'linda's wedding video.avi' or something? I mean, how do they discover if it's illegal? By the file name or by watching/listening to the stuff uploaded? /curious.

Yes that would work. If the uploader kept it to him/herself.
(Or only told people secretly).
But the trouble is uploaders then post their
links all around the net explaining what is
actually in the download. That is how links
are found out and eventually deleted. That,
along with a suspiciously large amount of of
downloads of a wedding.........

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_barely_breathing_ 23 Jan 2012, 21:56 #

cwmboi said:

_barely_breathing_ said:Excuse my ignorance, but would they still track the content down if somebody uploaded and episode of Glee or whatever under the title 'linda's wedding video.avi' or something? I mean, how do they discover if it's illegal? By the file name or by watching/listening to the stuff uploaded? /curious.

Yes that would work. If the uploader kept it to him/herself.
(Or only told people secretly).
But the trouble is uploaders then post their
links all around the net explaining what is
actually in the download. That is how links
are found out and eventually deleted. That,
along with a suspiciously large amount of of
downloads of a wedding.........

Thank you for the explanation. Maybe if people also .rar the file and password protect a file with a different name, and share the password only with a few people it could work.

Thanks again.

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RebeccaDawn 23 Jan 2012, 21:57 #

multiupload is one of the rare few ones i can download from now & that is all.everything else i try says deleted etc....

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RebeccaDawn 23 Jan 2012, 22:03 #

WELLINGTON (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand judge Monday remanded four European men in custody after they applied for bail on charges of money laundering, racketeering and piracy brought by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

New Zealand police arrested the four -- all connected with the Hong Kong-based file-sharing website, Megaupload.com -- in a series of raids on Friday at the request of the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department.

Radio New Zealand reported Monday that the judge at Auckland's North Shore District Court reserved his decision on the bail application by website founder and German millionaire Kim Dotcom and the three other men.

The FBI wants Dotcom, 37, and the others extradited to the United States to face the charges.

Judge David McNaughton said he needed more time to consider the arguments made in court due to their breadth and seriousness.

He said he would release a written decision by Wednesday at the latest, but the four would remain in custody, according to the Radio New Zealand report.

During the bail hearing, laywer Anne Toohey representing the United States asked the judge to turn down bail, arguing that Dotcom posed an extreme flight risk and could reoffend if he was allowed bail.

The court heard Dotcom still had access to a large amount of money that could be used to charter private planes, boats or helicopters to leave the country.

Toohey also told the court he should be kept in custody as he posed a firearms risk.

She said when police apprehended Dotcom in a raid on his Auckland home on Friday the firearm was about 4 meters behind him, in an open gun safe with the keys in the lock.

She said a firearms expert had said he had never before seen a shotgun sawn so short in New Zealand.

But the lawyer representing Dotcom argued the authorities had elevated his client's offending will beyond any reality, according to the report.

Paul Davidson said his client, who had New Zealand residency, wanted to stay in New Zealand to be with his wife and children.

Davidson said his client emphatically denied any wrongdoing and claimed the authorities totally misunderstood the Megaupload site.

Toohey told the court two other men sought in connection with the case had been arrested in Europe.

The U.S. authorities had issued international warrants for German citizen Sven Echternach and Estonian national Andrus Nomm for their involvement with Megaupload.

Toohey said Echternach had travelled to Germany from the Philippines, but could not be extradited because German law did not permit extradition of its own citizens.

Nomm had been detained in the Netherlands.

A Slovakian national, Julius Bencko, was still being sought.

A statement from the FBI on Friday said the U.S. Justice Department indictment alleged that a criminal enterprise was led by Dotcom, also known as Kim Tim Jim Vestor, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand.

It said Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited and was the director and sole shareholder of Vestor Limited, which had been used to hold his ownership interests in the Mega-affiliated sites.

Also in court were the website's chief marketing officer Finn Batato, 38, and chief technical officer and co-founder Mathias Ortmann, 40, both from Germany, and Dutch national Bram van der Kolk, 29, who is also a New Zealand resident.

The FBI statement said Ortmann was a resident of both Germany and Hong Kong.

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Txrabbit 23 Jan 2012, 22:28 #

So the war has officially begun. I guess it's back to torrents for everyone. But I'm sure they'll go after those in a more fierce fashion once they destroy all the file sharing sites. I wish I had an answer on how to fight this.

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Stixx53 23 Jan 2012, 23:22 #

I know I won't be purchasing any premium accounts of any kind til this is all sorted out. Lost my Fileserve and Megaupload.
The way I look at this mess is like the public storage facilities in any city or town. Is the owner of these facilities responsible for what is stored in them?

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RebeccaDawn 24 Jan 2012, 00:40 #

yeah like what if say a pawn shop and people put stolen stuff in there.is it the owner's fault for not checking every single item or is it the person who brought it in fault ?

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RebeccaDawn 24 Jan 2012, 00:42 #

same with movies and games etc....i see people buy them online all the time & then resell them.whose fault is it if they are stolen & how would they check them all ?

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kuhlcy 24 Jan 2012, 07:47 #

I live in the states. You guys are really bringing up interesting points.
I truly hope this will not be passed. Its utter lunacy. The implications would stretch across tons of other issues. That'd be like suing
Maxell and the radio stations back in the 80's, when we'd press one boombox playing a
radio station up to our tape recorder to tape songs. It could also be applied to photos too. Think about it. If you have a photo on a blog or flicker or whatever
and there just happens to be a name brand product or post a pick taken by a pro (or even semi-pro) or even yourself. There are copyrite implications there too. Unfortunately in America when such issues drop into politics, the side with the deepest pockets ends up winning. This is an election year too so we'll see if the
issue becomes embroiled in that.

It's really interesting to see how that other countries are handling it.

Just my 2 cents

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dvault 24 Jan 2012, 22:35 #

so sad for the overall internet and technology. Oh well, guess I'll just go skiing. Good luck and be careful!

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mukina 25 Jan 2012, 05:36 #

Well, at least SOPA and PIPA don't look like they are going to be problems soon...but ACTA on the other hand is. ACTA is a lot more troublesome, the US and many other countries have already signed it...after negotiating in secret since 2006 and can cover a lot more than just the internet. (ex. generic medicine) And of course since the gov. kept this under wraps, for so called security reasons, not many know anything about it. Humpf, most hilarious thing is that the countries against ACTA are China, India, and Brazil. Ahhh, the irony.

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coolguy005 25 Jan 2012, 11:41 #

This is so ironical that american government which advertises itself as the leader and caretaker of democracy and freedom is actully taking away the same from people.By the excuse of copyright it will actully take down any person bcoz all of us at some point of time have used some material from internet for our use .How will information be shared over internet in future...the world has advanced so much and we have been actully living in a world where in form of files life was being transferred from one part to other part of world .It was actully not only bringing people together but also keeping truth alive.Now the corporates who aim to earn dollars and dollars are lobbying all this to increase their bank accounts more and more ....Thats why occypy wall street took place ....there will be more to come .....All this proves that power and money are playing supreme in US and elsewhere .....President and senators are doing nothing about it ....guys its only hollywood people who are doing all this ...even tycoons from software industry are not in favour of such things ....Bcoz they know it will not increase their sales ...rather sharing files also brings popularity to their product ....And how many guys actully use crack.... not many..... few like us ...if they will stop file sharing we will learn the art of keygenning or else ....it might take time but it wont be that hard ...hollywood yes they are spending vehmently and i am sure that bucks are being flown into various people's account ...what about the money sharing ...where the hell is fbi to check that ......?

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RebeccaDawn 25 Jan 2012, 20:53 #

the internet providers will lose money cause nobody will need that much anymore since not much downloading will be going on.i called to cancel my internet today an it will be shut off soon.won't miss it really just used it to download the odd movie or game here and there and cruise facebook and farmville every now and then.

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windee 27 Jan 2012, 23:24 #

@cwmboi the feds are taking down mainly file sharing websites why aren't they doing anything to torrents how come they are safe

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cwmboi 28 Jan 2012, 16:55 #

windee said:@cwmboi the feds are taking down mainly file sharing websites why aren't they doing anything to torrents how come they are safe

The FEDS have only taken down Megaupload.

They have not taken any other down yet.......YET

Most of the other file hosts have made changes as
they are all shit scared that they may come after
them next.

Megaupload was taken down NOT just because file
sharing. There is a lot more to it than that.

Just Google "Why was magaupload taken down"

As for torrents........how can you shut down
millions of PC's.
They tried to close Pirate Bay. Jailed their
creators. Still operates as nothing has happened.

Not a lover of torrents, but they will allways be
here.

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