Goodbye, Megaupload.

[Hawke]

Well megaporn is down too. Not too keen on it but dayum.

 

[Keyblade474]

SPY SOPA SAPPIN' MAH INTERNET.

 

[rsmv2you]

SOPA SAPPIN' MAH INTERNET.

THE SOPA IS A SPY!

 

[BaloneyPony]

WHERES ZAKKON I WANT MY TICKET TO HIS HOUSE!

 

[RioDeal]

If SOPA takes over, where going back to the 80's again..... lets face it, where doom

 

[rsmv2you]

Saw this on facebook.
Don't know if legit or not but...

 

[oozinator]

If SOPA takes over, where going back to the 80's again..... lets face it, where doom

Maybe a little too far, but indeed things will be very different.

We'd end up telling our grandchildren about how in our day, 99.99999% of the Internet was free and accessible (not including private databases and such).

 

[RioDeal]

 

[rsmv2you]

Maybe a little too far, but indeed things will be very different.

We'd end up telling our grandchildren about how in our day, 99.99999% of the Internet was free and accessible (not including private databases and such).

Grandpa: Kids, did I ever tell you of a time when you could post what you wanted on the internet and you had freedom of speech?

Kids: PFFT! BUAHAAHAAH! Your funny grandpa! You sure you aren't getting too old?

Grandpa: I am not kidding.

Kids:

 

[oozinator]

Saw this on facebook.
Don't know if legit or not but...

Jan 18, 2012 – Internet Blackout protest; 6 Senators withdraw support: Marco Rubio, Orrin Hatch, Kelly Ayotte, Roy Blunt, John Boozman, Mark Kirk. [20] Two Representatives withdraw support: Benjamin Quayle, Lee Terry.

 

[rsmv2you]

The picture says Jan 19th though.

 

[katphish]

I am getting worried.

 

[im3nuron]

Just so you all know, SOPA did not take this website down. SOPA is not even in effect yet. And I'm not surprised that this website got taken down, Megaupload had a ton of copyrighted stuff on it. And also

The investigation was initiated and led by the FBI at the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. Substantial and critical assistance was provided by the New Zealand Police, the Organised and Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand (OFCANZ), the Crown Law Office of New Zealand,and the Office of the Solicitor General for New Zealand; Hong Kong Customs and the Hong Kong Department of Justice; the Netherlands Police Agency and the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Fraud and Environmental Crime in Rotterdam; London’s Metropolitan Police Service; Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt and the German Public Prosecutors; and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police-Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Federal Enforcement Section and the Integrated Technological Crime Unit and the Canadian Department of Justice’s International Assistance Group. Authorities in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Philippines also provided assistance.

The U.S. Can't just arrest whoever they want, they need permission first.

Also also. the website did not get taking down for no reason, the employees made over $175 million in illegal profits. They were promoting the downloads of illegal content. So yes, rsmv was right

racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering, and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement.

Conspiracy man.

It was, in fact, a conspiracy.

 

[oozinator]

The picture says Jan 19th though.

http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/sopa#roll_call

Also...

Crap, my congressman is sponsoring the bill.

Looks like someone is getting a letter and/or losing a constituent.

 

[katphish]

Some dude on the internet said:

Whatever happened to "Innocent till proven guilty?", now before everyone piles on. Megaupload and it's subsidiaries don't actually own the content on their servers. They only provide off site storage for their users and the public at large. Just as YouTube or Vimeo does. MegaUpload offers to remove any copyright protected content off their servers, provided that the complainant can provide proof of either ownership or license to the protected content. For the US Justice department to blindly close down MegaUpload without proper notification is unconstitutional and smacks of Big Brotherism. How far to the day when our home movies will be considered piracy because we happen to record a video of a birthday party were music or a movie just happens to be playing in the background?

 

[rsmv2you]

Some dude on the internet said:

Whatever happened to "Innocent till proven guilty?", now before everyone piles on. Megaupload and it's subsidiaries don't actually own the content on their servers. They only provide off site storage for their users and the public at large. Just as YouTube or Vimeo does. MegaUpload offers to remove any copyright protected content off their servers, provided that the complainant can provide proof of either ownership or license to the protected content. For the US Justice department to blindly close down MegaUpload without proper notification is unconstitutional and smacks of Big Brotherism. How far to the day when our home movies will be considered piracy because we happen to record a video of a birthday party were music or a movie just happens to be playing in the background?

So, the website was shutdown and they were arrested as if SOPA was already in affect?

 

[katphish]

Also, Anonymous attacked Universal Music Group and justice.gov in response to this...

linky

 

[katphish]

So, the website was shutdown and they were arrested as if SOPA was already in affect?

That's the scary thing. That they can do this without SOPA even being law, and that they arrested the founders of megaupload even though they don't even own the content that they host on their site. It's stupid. Now imagine if SOPA passes...

 

[3vans]

The US goverment is everywhere man. There all up in there little spy planes and spying on us MAN. There gonna come up and climb in your windows, and snatch you all up MAN. Its all over MAN. Its a fucking conspiracy.

















MAN.

I read that in this voice

 

[im3nuron]

That's the scary thing. That they can do this without SOPA even being law, and that they arrested the founders of megaupload even though they don't even own the content that they host on their site. It's stupid. Now imagine if SOPA passes...

They arrested them because they were promoting the downloading of the illegal content. While they were making money off of the illegal downloads through their premium account system. Websites are supposed to stop piracy from happening so they don't get taken down, Megaupload was promoting it.