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Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/19/national/a113757S64.DTL ^

Posted on 01/19/2012 5:59:33 PM PST by chessplayer

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See what obama can do when he puts his mind to it? 5% of the largest communication network in human history has been eradicated just like that. All the stuff people had stored on it, and paid to store it, gone, just like that.
1 posted on 01/19/2012 5:59:40 PM PST by chessplayer
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Wonder what would happen if all these companies got together and created another Lightsquared, launch a satellite into space for the internet, buy an island and run servers from there thereby becoming untouchable.


2 posted on 01/19/2012 6:03:18 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
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It's back up under a different url now.

The DOJ and FBI websites, however, are still hosed in retaliation. Along with a bunch of stuff like RIAA and record labels.

What a cluster....

/johnny

3 posted on 01/19/2012 6:03:35 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Will YouSendIt be next?

Will the servers farms in the U.S. face an exodus of customers?


4 posted on 01/19/2012 6:05:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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I'm using Tweetdeck to watch commentary on the GOP debate in one column, and Anonymous in another. It's surreal.

Then there's this:

Joe Biden went trolling through Silicon Valley looking for campaign funds a day after the Blackout!

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120119/00492717468/joe-biden-picked-interesting-day-to-raise-money-silicon-valley.shtml

The DOJ.gov site is down via DDoS attack, supposedly by Anonymous. It's almost funny...they admit experiencing a "degradation in service." Yes, since Holder and Obama moved in!

5 posted on 01/19/2012 6:06:03 PM PST by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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If they had heeded the notices sent under the Millennium Copyright Act and removed stolen material that other people worked hard on to create, then they’d still be in business. Reputable Internet sites remove copyrighted material immediately when notified by the copyright holder.

My family’s bread and butter comes from copyrighted novels. How do you think it feels when your morning Google alert contains a subject line “DOWNLOAD *****’s LATEST BOOK FOR FREE!” and you know that thousands of people are going to take advantage of that, rather than paying for something you own?

This has nothing to do with Obama or liberals. There’s a reason we have copyright laws and patents. This problem is identical to Napster or the Chinese mas manufacture of American movies on DVD and smuggled into the country. Good riddance. I hope they shut down as many of these scumbags as possible.


6 posted on 01/19/2012 6:10:51 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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With Obama in office, we've lost a lot of our freedom.

Then they may as well shut down YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Photobucket, and all other upload sites of any form because people are able to upload files of which they might not own the copyrights.

7 posted on 01/19/2012 6:12:53 PM PST by RobinMasters
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then they’d still be in business.

They are still in business. FBI and DOJ are still down.

Raw force isn't going to fix this.

/johnny

8 posted on 01/19/2012 6:13:27 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Raw force isn't going to fix this.


9 posted on 01/19/2012 6:46:52 PM PST by null and void (Day 1094 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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Just goes to show that we don’t need SOPA, the current laws already in place are sufficient.


10 posted on 01/19/2012 6:49:41 PM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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Shut down with due process.

One would be nuts to start a tech business in the US.

All it takes is a few Union reps or Hollywood liberal to shut you down.

I am moving all my stuff offshore.


11 posted on 01/19/2012 7:00:36 PM PST by NoLibZone (Buffet proves calls for more taxes is to buy votes,not reduce deficits.He pays less than Bush rates.)
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"Will the servers farms in the U.S. face an exodus of customers?"

Soros et all already bought up the trunk lines!

12 posted on 01/19/2012 7:02:33 PM PST by NoLibZone (Buffet proves calls for more taxes is to buy votes,not reduce deficits.He pays less than Bush rates.)
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I know someone who personally set up kickasstorrents. They changed their domain names so many times it’s now based in the PH.


13 posted on 01/19/2012 7:39:01 PM PST by max americana (Buttcrack Obama is an idiot)
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Yes. Well. I hope you were also complaining loudly when the regime shuttered millions of people’s accounts when the king shut down the internet poker sites too.


14 posted on 01/19/2012 7:59:49 PM PST by battletank
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Just goes to show that we don’t need SOPA, the current laws already in place are sufficient.

We don't need SOPA, that's for sure. However additional tools are necessary to shut down the online pirates. I takes way too long to stop them and by then individual authors take a beating on book sales (as one example).

15 posted on 01/19/2012 8:21:11 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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My family’s bread and butter comes from copyrighted novels. How do you think it feels when your morning Google alert contains a subject line “DOWNLOAD *****’s LATEST BOOK FOR FREE!” and you know that thousands of people are going to take advantage of that, rather than paying for something you own?

The problem is, they are taking down the paying customers as well. There is a lot of legimitate content there, and those that have paid for that content are now screwed. It is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and while I realize our Justice Department is not too bright, they should have used a more intelligent approach than this.
16 posted on 01/19/2012 8:22:31 PM PST by microgood
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We successfully defeated Spam (You all remember Bush’s ‘Can Spam’ legislation, don’t you? And yes, that was the name!) so now we can turn on the “pirates”. Government serving the people.


17 posted on 01/19/2012 8:24:13 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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Never heard of them.


18 posted on 01/19/2012 8:26:46 PM PST by Randy Larsen (God bless you Pam, You made us happy even though you were in great pain!)
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The sad part of this is that the same site was used at one time by lots of people for legal transfers. The Minecraft people used to use it for map transfers for example.


19 posted on 01/19/2012 8:40:39 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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The problem is, they are taking down the paying customers as well.

That is the fault of the company for repeatedly ignoring the complaints submitted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Believe me they knew what was going on and repeatedly chose to ignore the complaints from copyright holders and authorities.

20 posted on 01/19/2012 9:03:50 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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