Goodbye, Megaupload.

[bbgunshot]

I'm tired of people painting them as freedom fighters... I don't need to tell you that they're mostly a bunch of 14 year old kids downloading porn in their parent's rec room.

I never said they were heroes. I don't agree completely with their methods or their past but, it is increasingly obvious in their similar intentions. Unfortunately sometimes it takes a slap in the face like getting hacked, for those blinded to really understand the gravity of their actions.

 

[katphish]

The great thing about a DDOS attack is that you really only need a few people to actually know what's going on. You just need a lot of peons that are willing to stick out their necks for you.

Exactly.

And Anonymous is exactly what it is: an idea. I doubt there is any set organization that exists. On youtube they are probably just a bunch of bored video editors with their stupid Microsoft Sam recordings claiming to be the official Youtube channel.

On /b/, probably everyone there considers themselves Anonymous, but how can you know that these are the same people. Most likely, the blame will fall on /b/tards, and they will gladly take it. And that's fine by me.

 

[GreenEarth]

kids downloading porn in their parent's rec room.

no

stick out their necks

not if you know what you are doing

slap in the face

yes

claiming to be the official channel.

yes

 

[ollee]

I found out today via e-mail that my congressman does not support SOPA.... #winner.

(Bill Johnson Ohio District 6)

 

[Cacher]

Luckily you can still use it. The site is back up and running just 5 hours later under a new domain name. megavideo.bz

#failhard FBI

 

[Vincent2128]

View attachment 86743

/me clicks proceed anyway

I think they seized the servers and arrested everyone who worked for them.

AND they are all in New Zealand.

Nope, not everyone who works for Megaupload works in New Zealand.

Megaupload is an online Hong Kong–based company

Yup, Megaupload is a Hong Kong company, where I live. (By coincidence, Hong Kong is one of the few countries where one cannot access Megaupload, rather ironically)

 

[Cacher]

A song to release the tension

oh and here are the documents

 

[Zovator]

Fuck this, governments completely suck, I want to live on island in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Melexiious]

Fuck this, governments completely suck, I want to live on island in the middle of nowhere.

You already live on an island in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Zovator]

You already live on an island in the middle of nowhere.

Oh yeah, I do... Damn that idea, I want to live on another planet then.

 

[Cacher]

Oh yeah, I do... Damn that idea, I want to live on another planet then.

But you already live on Uranus

 

[Zovator]

But you already live on Uranus

:L

 

[Cacher]

:L

This probably sounds dumb but what does ":L" mean?

 

[NewspaperCrane]

 

[Zovator]

This probably sounds dumb but what does ":L" mean?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+does+:L+mean?

 

[Zovator]

I wish I understood why you posted that, but it's awesome anyway so who cares.

 

[KingVole]

whats SOPA?

 

[Clayto1332]

The great thing about a DDOS attack is that you really only need a few people to actually know what's going on. You just need a lot of peons that are willing to stick out their necks for you.

Not particularly true. There is lots of rogueware out there that will get on your computer and continuously ping whatever IP address the programmer wants. These are what brings the big sites down.

Last year when I was working at a data center, a whole sector that included many clients went down. Me and another admin spent 6 hours trying to find the problem. We were on the phone with a CCIE for two of those hours and failed to find the problem until we began disconnecting clients one by one to move them to a secondary switch. About 4 or 5 customers into the switch the rest of the network came back up. We looked at the network utilization and saw that a DDOS/port scan attack was taking down the whole switch/router because it was taking up over 2 Gbps of bandwidth. Our core router was on a 10 gig pipe so the attack didn't take it down. The attack lasted 12 hours and completely stopped all at once the next morning. This kind of attack was the culprit.

All these people getting on 4chan and telling a bunch of kids to blast a website don't know shit and aren't anonymous.

 

[JerzeyLegend]

Megaupload most likely had it coming. However they aren't the only filehost out there. There a literally over 100 of them maybe thousands. Which ever one isnt taken down will become the next most popular.

Filesonic
Wupload
Fileshare
Rapidshare
Multiupload
Mediafire

those are just the most used ones right now. you cant blame MU. MU simply provided the servers for people to commit the evils. MU does take action against known copyright infringement. I have run across tons of links that were taken down because of copyright infringement.

Hollywood wants people to stop privacy, stop paying actors millions of dollars, and then expecting us to pay $10.00 to see a fucking movie.

 

[Wooty]

MU simply provided the servers for people to commit the evils. MU does take action against known copyright infringement. I have run across tons of links that were taken down because of copyright infringement.

Don't take it at face value, but still a good read:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oouwm/can_someone_explain_why_the_megaupload_takedown/